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照片中的小孩正在享用烤好的奧拉西甜玉米
1999
年的甜玉米節
 

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科羅拉多州的甜玉米節
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甜玉米能夠拯救一個城鎮嗎?如果那個鎮是科羅拉多州的奧拉西(Olathe)就可以!

奧拉西鎮過去種植的是甜菜及大麥,但自1970年代晚期後,這些農作物的需求量開始下降。,鎮民的生活也越來越差,因為鎮上的經濟完全仰賴農夫的收益存活。然後,一位名為蓋利奈特(Dave Galinet)的農夫研發了幾種不同種類的甜玉米,因而決定將他的生意搬到奧拉西區。奧拉西白天炙熱,晚上涼爽的氣候極適合甜玉米生長。不久後,其他農夫也開始種植甜玉米,過不了多久的時間,鎮上又開始興盛了起來。

奧拉西決定要慶賀它再次興盛起來的事實,還有什麼會比舉行甜玉米節更適合呢?首次的慶祝活動是於19928月的某個下雨天舉辦的。誰能猜的到?竟有800多人出席此一慶典。到了現在,參加此一節慶的人約有20,000名。您知道他們在玉米節會做什麼嗎?盡情的食用所有的甜玉米。1999年的玉米節上,與會人士總共吃掉了70,000穗由種植者所提供的奧拉西甜玉米。您能猜到這些玉米是由多少人吃掉的嗎?

Can sweet corn save a town? It can if that town is Olathe, Colorado!

The town of Olathe used to grow sugar beets and barley, but by the late 1970s those crops weren't in much demand anymore. The town fell on hard times because it depended upon the success of the farmers to survive. Then a farmer named Dave Galinet, who had developed several varieties of sweet corn, decided to move his business to the Olathe area. Olathe had the ideal climate for growing sweet corn - hot days and cool nights. Soon after that, many of the other farmers started to grow sweet corn too, and before long the town was prosperous again.

Olathe decided to celebrate the fact that it was thriving, and what better way than to have a sweet corn festival? The first festival was on a rainy day in August 1992. And guess what? More than 800 people showed up. Nowadays about 20,000 people come to the festival. And you know what they get to do? Eat all the sweet corn they want. In 1999, participants ate 70,000 ears of "Olathe Sweet" donated by the growers. Can you imagine how many people there were to eat that many ears of corn?

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