Corn Painted Mountain

LIMIT ONE PACKET PER ORDER.

The life work of Montana breeder Dave Christensen, Painted Mountain is one of the great farm-bred successes of our time. 

In a time when seed companies were breeding corn for warm, humid mid-west and east coast US climates, Christensen set out to develop a more rugged, early maturing mountain corn to grow in Montana conditions. Starting from an initial cross of close to 70 native dry corns (some now extinct), the variety has been selected upon for nearly 50 years and pushed to the limit of what corn can withstand. It has been grown successfully from Siberia to South Africa. 

Plants are compact at 150cm and produce long slender ears (15-20cm) with just an unbelievable spectrum of colours. If you can’t mature it, you should rethink growing dry corn where you live. Great for cornmeal and for making dishes like pozole (traditional Mexican stew or soup). 

Resilient, diverse, and adaptable, this is Mad Max corn…the one that will survive a climate crisis. 

Profits from the sale of this product are paid to the Heritage Food Crops Charitable Trust. Seed is not commercially produced but is grown and collected by the trust. Every attempt to provide quality seed has been made, however no guarantee is given for germination, and no refunds or replacements will be given. Seed is limited and purchase is seen as a donation to the trust to support their ongoing work.