Tuxpeno White Corn Grits
Farm & Sparrow is a seed project & stone mill based Mars Hill, NC.
This year, Hurricane Helene left Farm & Sparrow’s community of bakeries and restaurants without potable water and unable to operate. We can imagine what it means for a small business to go without their usual stream of orders from wholesale partners. While we can by no means replace their customer accounts, our Resilience Collaboration can channel Farm & Sparrow’s extraordinary white corn grits through to you, our dedicated community, who support agriculturists, artisans, and varietal diversity.
Here’s what they have to say about these beautiful grits:
TUXPENO
Tuxpeno is a legendary wild maize which grows on the shore of eastern North Carolina and Virginia. This variety is famous for withstanding the most brutal tropical winds, so it was a natural choice for planting in an area where great crops of corn are often destroyed by autumn winds and flooding before they can be harvested. Though it is a white dent corn, it is a landrace which means it is still wild and will have greater color and flavor variation from crop to crop. Tuxpeno’s ability to hold a lot of liquid when cooking makes it perfect for coarse milled grits that have a sweet creamy texture with a subtle smell of yellow corn.
LIMITED AVAILABILITY OF 1 LB QUANTITIES
Farm & Sparrow is a seed project & stone mill based Mars Hill, NC.
This year, Hurricane Helene left Farm & Sparrow’s community of bakeries and restaurants without potable water and unable to operate. We can imagine what it means for a small business to go without their usual stream of orders from wholesale partners. While we can by no means replace their customer accounts, our Resilience Collaboration can channel Farm & Sparrow’s extraordinary white corn grits through to you, our dedicated community, who support agriculturists, artisans, and varietal diversity.
Here’s what they have to say about these beautiful grits:
TUXPENO
Tuxpeno is a legendary wild maize which grows on the shore of eastern North Carolina and Virginia. This variety is famous for withstanding the most brutal tropical winds, so it was a natural choice for planting in an area where great crops of corn are often destroyed by autumn winds and flooding before they can be harvested. Though it is a white dent corn, it is a landrace which means it is still wild and will have greater color and flavor variation from crop to crop. Tuxpeno’s ability to hold a lot of liquid when cooking makes it perfect for coarse milled grits that have a sweet creamy texture with a subtle smell of yellow corn.
LIMITED AVAILABILITY OF 1 LB QUANTITIES
Farm & Sparrow is a seed project & stone mill based Mars Hill, NC.
This year, Hurricane Helene left Farm & Sparrow’s community of bakeries and restaurants without potable water and unable to operate. We can imagine what it means for a small business to go without their usual stream of orders from wholesale partners. While we can by no means replace their customer accounts, our Resilience Collaboration can channel Farm & Sparrow’s extraordinary white corn grits through to you, our dedicated community, who support agriculturists, artisans, and varietal diversity.
Here’s what they have to say about these beautiful grits:
TUXPENO
Tuxpeno is a legendary wild maize which grows on the shore of eastern North Carolina and Virginia. This variety is famous for withstanding the most brutal tropical winds, so it was a natural choice for planting in an area where great crops of corn are often destroyed by autumn winds and flooding before they can be harvested. Though it is a white dent corn, it is a landrace which means it is still wild and will have greater color and flavor variation from crop to crop. Tuxpeno’s ability to hold a lot of liquid when cooking makes it perfect for coarse milled grits that have a sweet creamy texture with a subtle smell of yellow corn.
LIMITED AVAILABILITY OF 1 LB QUANTITIES