Thank you all for the insights. It's 5/8/19, and I have been waiting.. I had a feeling the news would not be good..
Carol has been (and continues to be) an inspiration for me. I think of her (and re-read sections of 'The Resilient Gardener) any time I'm planting, harvesting, drying, grinding, cooking, eating (etc etc) corn, beans, squash.. And of course I did send in an order this year.. I'm in Maine and, alas, it's too far to cruise over there to lend a hand.
I believe in what she has done, and I hope the research piece of this is going well.
When she wrote the section 'Breaking the cooking code' (p 258 under 'Corn')- that's where I am right now working with polenta.. comparing multiple flints (and others), mills, grinding characteristics (and grit size) of cornmeal, color, viscosity, cooking characteristics, frying characteristics, and TASTE... comparing ab cal flint with cascade and then cross comparisons on all those variables with Bob's Red Mill product..I wouldn't be doing this (or starting at the same level) without her work- and I wouldn't have a spare room filled with seed, some dating back to 2012..
Fortunately, I've been actively growing and dealing with (the often unpredicted interbreeding of) corn/beans/squash and how they respond to the wildly fluctuating growing conditions in Maine- and so I do have a lot of stock to draw from for planting.
My wish, as with many of you, is that we'd hear more on a regular basis concerning the ongoing battle. Her writing is wonderful and a blog would be great. My guess is, in what lifetime is she going to be able to pull together the energy for that along with everything else?
It is a chuckle (not an appropriate one) to see that after the first round she learned to cash the checks first off... I'd taken my seed order amount and added an equal amount for a contribution, so.. at this point I view it as 100% contribution.. (but I DID want that seed..) lw
