A bulletin, not a brochure. What follows is a partial record of how a particular valley grows a particular ear of corn, picked by particular hands, on a particular morning. We don’t have a slogan; we have a field.
The Olathe Sweet parent line was rescued from a retiring farmer who believed his valley could grow sugar in a husk. We brought it back to the same soil, learned how it liked the water, and kept the seed — by hand, ear by ear — for forty summers.
You won’t find us at a farmers’ market in a big city. We don’t wholesale to supermarkets. Every ear you eat came off a truck that left the shed that morning, headed for a stop we planned with people we know by name.
What follows in this issue: the numbers that matter, the stops on the 2026 tour, the lot for this week, and a short chronicle of how we got here. Read at your leisure. Eat with butter and salt.
“The ear in the photograph was picked the morning it was shot. The silk on the right is still damp. We don’t airbrush the field because we don’t need to.”
Six numbers describe this farm better than any slogan. We keep them where we can see them — in the shed, in the cooler, on the side of the picking trailer.
Hover any specimen to read the field note. None of these are marketing — they’re what we measure every morning between picking and packing.
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Above.{" "} The same ear, picked at 6:14 AM, photographed at 6:18. The silk is still wet. The husk was peeled back with a thumb. Nothing else was done to it, and nothing has been done to it since. This is what an Olathe Sweet looks like at the moment it becomes food.
Photograph — Zane Harold
Filed — August MMXXVI
Location — Row 14, Block 3
“You can’t replicate the diurnal swing in a greenhouse. You can’t replicate it on a flat field. You can’t replicate it in a hurry.”
— John Harold · Second Generation
We don’t ship to stores. We bring the cooler to a corner we know, on a day we’ve confirmed, and we wait for you. Find a stop on the list below, or download the whole schedule as a one-page PDF.
The harvest is right around the corner — new pickup stops go live weekly. You can preorder from the lot below and pick a stop once they’re announced, or download the schedule PDF and we’ll pencil you in by hand.
Preorder for pickup at a stop, or have cooler boxes shipped to your door after the season. Limited to what we picked this morning — when it’s gone, it’s gone until tomorrow.
The first pick hasn’t come in yet.
Check back at sunrise. We open the shed at 5 AM and update the lot before 7.
A short history of how this farm got from one coffee can of seed to a harvest that feeds families in four states. Written by hand, edited once.
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One note a month, written from the shed. New stops, the day’s pick, the occasional recipe from a customer. No marketing, no nonsense.
Fraunces & Newsreader. Small caps by hand.
Recycled paper, the color of the shed at noon.
The Harold Family, Olathe, CO. Forty-second edition.