field trip one lovely june afternoon, my junk friend celio helped me "find" a shopping cart and get it to my house. that weekend, i filled the shopping cart with soil and planted it with six kernels of "golden bantam" organic heirloom 1902 sweet corn. two months later, the shopping cart was equipped with a travel accessories : radio, raincoat, journal, thermos and homemade seed packets and the corn hit the road. folks volunteered to be pushers/farmers and traveled the streets and alleyways of chicago with the corn and their own interpretations and agendas. the corn cart has visited community gardens, toured supermarkets, politicized a street fair, gone out to coffee and rested in many backyards. the corn has been attacked by hail, squirrels, cucumber beetles and idle curious hands. it has been a long and circuitous field trip. Nance Klehm
	03 Aug 03 24-- N. Sawyer - 12-- N. Maplewood Rain then hail then rain.
	8/5/03 12-- N. Maplewood - 22-- N. Monticello Way to move through the city.
	Aug 5/6 22-- N. Monticello - 31-- W. Wilson Taller than I expected.
	6 August 03 31-- W. Wilson - 21-- W Sunnyside Well, taking a cart of corn for a walk is not the same as walking a dog.
	August 7, 2003 - August 8, 2003 21-- W. Sunnyside - 21-- W. Sunnyside Then to the Jewel and the Cornservatory then back. Mysterious absence of corn from yard.
	08 August 03 21-- W. Sunnyside - 15-- W. Melrose This is my grandmother's birthday. She's not alive but if she was, she'd be 94 years old.
	6 a.m. Aug. 9 Cart rested happily in my yard. Put hot strong coffee in the thermos and added a china cup since the plastic one is cracked. Going to pick a bouquet to take to the market. - Sydney
	Saturday 08.09.03 15-- W. Melrose - Halsted Market St. Days - Melrose Various reactions as the corn heads east on Belmont Ave….
	August 13 Dinner with Corn 15-- W. Melrose 8/17/03 Sunday 1534 Melrose - Peterson/Ravenswood The journey resumes north.
	18 August 03 Peterson/Ravenswood - Estes This was a night walk.
	28 August 03 Estes - Morse Various parts.
	8.30.03 Morse - 13-- Chase Pushed the cart to the home of Douglas Woodhouse at 13-- Chase St in Douglas Park. - Nance
	17 September 03 13-- Chase St - 74-- N. Sheridan Road/Waterford Nursing Home Maize mission accomplished.