The competition took a hiatus for 10 years but confirmed what lots of anglers suspected: The bass were just about gone, the water quality affected by a half century of farmers allowing too much phosphorus runoff into the lake. Before that, dozens of fish camps circled the lake and anglers came from all over the country for the legendary bass fishing regularly featured in sporting magazines.
Luminaries like Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable were said to be enthusiasts. In , at the behest of then-Gov. Lawton Chiles, and the St. The move put more than 2, Zellwood farm workers out of jobs. Restoration has been a painstaking process, according to Pam Bowen, an environmental scientist with St.
Just after the buyout, there was a large bird die-off on the property. The culprit: fish with high pesticide residue. Scientists began a series of restoration projects, monitoring fish and birds over time. They turned tainted soil deep and brought fresh soil to the surface and flooded the former farmland to create wetland.
They removed almost 70, pounds of phosphorus from the lake and hired net fishermen to pull They still have a lot of work to do on the north shore, Bowen said, moving wetlands from a heavily vegetated habitat to a more mixed marsh habitat, but that they are "very, very close" to their target levels of chemical residue.
As a trial balloon, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission oversaw the release of 1 million bass fingerlings into the lake in November. While all this was happening, the state paid no attention to Hank Scott, because he grew his corn in sand, far from the water. When all the Zellwood farmers went out of business, farmers in southern Georgia and Palm Beach County saw an opportunity and stepped up their planting of sweet corn.
South Georgia sweet corn can frequently be had for 25 cents an ear. Hank Scott says he gets bushels per acre if he's lucky, all hand-harvested. In south Georgia, the yield is as much as bushels per acre, "so they can sell it cheap. Around this time, restaurants started looking for name brand foods, and began asking for it every year.
In the grocery store, we buy with our eyes and often choose whatever is cheapest. At a farm-to-table restaurant, we may tuck away a memory of a particularly delicious food and seek it out again. People remember Zellwood corn, so much so that some Florida restaurants have exploited that cachet, claiming to sell Zellwood corn when it's really a cheaper impostor. Every May for nearly 40 years, the Zellwood Corn Festival kept those sweet ears in Floridians' heads. There is no other listing as complete and current as this list, just updated!
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