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Kids can also enjoy pumpkin bounce pads, travel through a cornstalk tunnel and meet cute farm animals.
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Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025
Native Americans—the land’s original master gardeners—grew them near cornstalks to support the vines as part of a companion- planting technique known as the Three Sisters, which also included using squash as a ground cover.
—Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
The Argonne team assumed that growing corn on a farm offset the tailpipe emissions from burning corn in an engine, because cornstalks sucked carbon out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
—Michael Grunwald
july 21, Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
For even more perks, try growing several rows of branching sunflowers as a natural windbreak to keep cornstalks from toppling over in windy weather.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2025
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Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025
Native Americans—the land’s original master gardeners—grew them near cornstalks to support the vines as part of a companion- planting technique known as the Three Sisters, which also included using squash as a ground cover.
—Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
The Argonne team assumed that growing corn on a farm offset the tailpipe emissions from burning corn in an engine, because cornstalks sucked carbon out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
—Michael Grunwald
july 21, Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
For even more perks, try growing several rows of branching sunflowers as a natural windbreak to keep cornstalks from toppling over in windy weather.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2025
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“Cornstalk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cornstalk. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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cornstalk
noun
corn·stalk
ˈkȯ(ə)rn-ˌstȯk 
: a stalk of corn
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