Throughout this timeless cycle of corn, the farmers would rise early to do their work, tilling and cultivating, fending off weeds, and tipping their hats to shade themselves from the sun. Finally, when the seeds, rain, and soil had fulfilled their blessings, large groups of kin and neighbors would come out to the fields, pluck the ears of corn off the dried stalks, and toss them into the cane baskets strapped to their backs, harvesting these many months of sunlight collected in the kernels of white, yellow, blue, and red corn.