Mini or “baby” vegetables have come to occupy a huge spot in modern culinary culture. But few can claim as exotic a lineage as Guatemalan baby corn. Producer Tulio Garcia Sr. explains how workers at a remote village in Guatemala are hand-harvesting up to three million ears a week for Costco. Photo: Tulio Garcia Sr.
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.