Growing and Harvesting Popcorn
Both the Gourmet Black and the Baby Rice are old-fashioned, open-pollinated popcorn. Therefore they are more difficult to grow and require a lot more handwork than the newer hybrid varieties of popcorn.

Black and Baby Rice popcorn are harvested and dried on the cob. We dry the popcorn slowly to maintain an even moisture throughout. This assures that our corn will pop better and locks in that farm fresh taste.

Shelling the popcorn
After the popcorn is dried, we send it through a husking bed and onto a conveyor. It is on this conveyor that we check over every cob for the first time. We pick out any cob that has been damaged in any way or is the wrong color. From this conveyor the popcorn goes into a sheller.

The next step for our popcorn is a grain cleaner that removes any tiny kernals which will not pop and the "bee's wings" or chaff.

Cleaning the popcorn
Following that, we send every kernal slowly over another conveyor that we fashioned out of an old treadmill. Here, once again, we look at each kernal and remove any damaged or undesirable ones. The popcorn is sent across this belt twice to be be sure we do not miss any. During this step, our popcorn is poured in front of a fan four times to get rid of any stubborn "bee's wings".

After that is done, all we have left is to bag or pop the corn.

Popping
During the spring of 2003 we added a state licensed farm kitchen to our operation. We spent countless hours in this kitchen trying and retrying to develope recipes for our flavored popcorn that we could feel proud of. After many failed batches, a lot of sampling and hearing the comment "almost, but it is not quite there", we think we got it right. Of course, the whole process is repeated everytime we or one of our customers think of a new flavor to add to our selection.

All of our popcorn is handmade in small batches. We pop several times a week to guarantee the popcorn is fresh when it gets to you. Our cheese corn is made with plenty of real cheese. We believe if your fingers are not covered in cheese when you eat cheese popcorn, you have been cheated. We guarantee your fingers will be cheesy when you eat our cheese popcorn!