Fall is just around the corner and with fall comes harvest time. This week’s historic treasure is a corn sheller, a machine designed to make the farmers work a little easier. Corn shellers came in a ...

My goal is to help people grow their food and get it all the way to the table using the least fossil fuel. When they sit at that table to share a meal I don’t want them to be so worn out that they are ...

Mick Gallagher feeds copious amounts of corn cobs into the old and aptly named 'hit or miss' petrol-engine-powered corn-sheller for the benefit of on-lookers at the Maffra show in Gippsland, Victoria.

Bruce D. Bomberger, curator at Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, say that these two tools are corn shellers. "Shelling" is the process of removing the hard, dried kernels of field corn from their ...

When I was a small boy growing up in Stokes County, my family used various methods of harvesting crops on the farm. Since mechanized farming was still in its infancy, most families resorted to ...