The Iowa Farmboy's Guide to Freezing Sweet Corn

In August 2007, our family returned our annual trip to Iowa to harvest sweet corn and freeze it for using during our cold hard winter. I'd been saying for a long time that we needed to document this process, so I finally got around to doing it.

I've enjoyed reading articles on the site www.wikihow.com, so I decided to post this information on that site. A Wiki is intended to be a collaborative effort where anyone can edit the content. Within 24 hours of posting the article, four or five people had edited it and changed much of the content. The How-To site is intended to be an instructional site, so the editors there removed all of my attempts at humor and personal references. The funniest change was the person who changed my reference from the "Iowa Farmboy" to the "Iowa Farm person". It's been a fascinating experience so far.

Check out the current state of the article at http://www.wikihow.com/Freeze-Corn. It's not really my article any more as it's been edited many times by many different people, but it's interesting to see the metamorphosis (I still like mine better!!).

The article was featured as the How-To of the Day on Google on August 22nd, 2007, and as of April 2026 is up over 499,600 page views - WOW!