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Corn Celebrated, Eaten Competitively Saturday

Abma's annual Corn Fest to feature music, games and corn-eating competition.

Celebrations of corn, and all of its culinary and cultural functions, have a long history in the nation’s farm towns, with some in the Midwest attracting visitors by the tens of thousands each year. But in Bergen County, there’s only one.

The Corn Fest at Abma’s Farm will make its second annual offering Saturday, with the normal country fare—music, contests and corncob doll making—slated for the day's festivities.

 “We’re one of the few farms left in Bergen County,” says Anna Abma, the resident baker and wife of the family business's corn farmer.

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The festival comes as the end approaches for the corn-picking season, which runs from July to mid-September, when the farm daily hauls around 200 70-pound bags of the crop, its biggest product, Abma says.

So why not celebrate it?

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The event is free, except for the day’s menu item, fresh grilled corn. And before attending, you might consider not just how many ears you'll want to gnaw on, but the speediest way to consume a cob.

The farm will also be hosting a series of corn eating competitions for different age brackets throughout the afternoon. Ages under 10 will face off at 12:30 p.m., ages 10-20 at 1:30, and 21 on up at 2:30. Contestants will be judged on speed.

Abma’s, located on Lawlins Road in Wyckoff, will hold the event from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday.


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