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Sweet corn is one of the symbols of summer in the Valley.  You can track the season in the progress of the corn growing alongside our roads, and the first corn-on-the-cob on the table is a sign that summer is really in full swing.  Corn is a symbol of another kind, though, in Michael Pollan’s books and essays about our industrial food system, where he declared “If you are what you eat, and especially if you eat industrial food, as 99 percent of Americans do, what you are is ‘corn.’”  Corn grown in the Valley fuels people, animals and, now, greenhouses.  This month, we focus on sweet corn and corn for heating.