Mirai, The Best-Tasting Corn in History!
Story from Park Seed
"The story of this corn's wild popularity is incredible. It was bred on the Ahrens family farm in Illinois by J. David Mackenzie, a plantsman from Cornell University. As the economy worsened for family farms in the early 1990s, the Ahrenses hired Mackenzie to research new strains of sweet corn for market use. When he discovered Mirai®, he was really just trying to create a more disease-resistant variety. But one taste changed all that......"
WOW! It sounds like corn has arrived at perfection! I guess that means I'll be giving this variety a try this year!
Update- I grew a batch of this corn. My family was not impressed. I found a variety that we like much better. Ruby Queen. Look for a later post on this variety.
