The corn has been harvested and dried on the patio, and now to remove the kernels from the cobs. One of the women we are working with on the stove project showed us how they go about this process. Such a simple but effective design, and still an incredible amount of work, all by hand. They bind together a bunch of emptied cobs and then simply scraping another cob down the surface makes the dried kernels come flying off.

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Just a few more to go.

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