1,310...

When you live on a small farm you tend to count whatever you have raised, grown, or produced. Our daughter, Amanda, keeps track of how much milk her goats produce, we count eggs, we weigh the apples we pick. This makes us feel like our work has a product at the end. So, when our corn was ready we started counting and counting and counting. The kids knew that they had planted, weeded, fertilized, and watered ALOT of corn, but we were surprised at the final count...1,310 ears of corn! Above is our corn field, which used to be the chicken yard. Brian plotted out an 80 ft X 80 ft section and the kids did the rest.
We were blessed to have Sabina, Zoe, and Mattea Buhrmaster helping us to pick, shuck, par-boil, cut, and bag with us. Here is our pile of corn and the work began...

and continued... (Nathan showing true shucking form here)...

and almost done... notice the corn stacked on the chairs. Our shuckers were well ahead of the boiling-cutting-bagging team.

Team rotation...now the shucking team is the boiling-cutting-bagging team. What rest!!!

(be thankful it wasn't raining)

...the new boiling-cutting-bagging team. We gave the other team a break for ice cream bars. Thank you everyone for your hard work!! We bagged 42 1-gallon bags of cut corn.

Awww shucks! The goats loved all the treats over the next week or so.