Festivity, Sweet Corn,

Festivity Sweet Corn presents a beautiful range of colors at the sweet-eating stage, only intensifying as the ears mature. Developed in Oregon, Jonathan Spero of Lupine Knoll Farm created this variety for growers with cool, low-fertility soils in higher latitudes. It is somewhat cold-tolerant and open-pollinated, rainbow-colored, multi-stalked, frequently 3-4 ears per plant. Created with cool soil, higher latitude locations, and low fertility in mind. Most cobs have a blend of white, yellow, red, and purple kernels: fast producing, about 90 days from seed to eating cobs.
Farmer Jonathan Spero crossed ancient Anasazi multi-colored sweet corn with modern corn, then spent seven years selecting and stabilizing this open-pollinated variety. He strove for excellent eating quality while leaving the plants a bit variable. As he explained, " When people depended on their gardens for their food, variability was an important trait. They needed crops with a range of adaptations to get food and seed for the next year despite floods, drought, storm, disease, and pest pressures." Mr. Spero bred this corn as a dependable food that people could grow and save seed for themselves. He pledged it as an OSSI open-source variety.

Pkt Size/Approx. Seeds
25 Seeds
50 Seeds
100 Seeds

The Open Source Seed Initiative exists so that breeders who originate new varieties can protect them from exploitation and patenting by corporations. It means that the breeder has freely given up their patent rights to keep the variety in the public domain forever. The OSSI pledge reads: "You have the freedom to use these OSSI-pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others use of these seeds or their derivatives, by patents or other means, and to include this pledge in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives."