They are giant labyrinths cut into patches of corn; you go in one side and, a few minutes or days later, are supposed to come out the other.
Then we climbed past patches of corn, banana trees and other tropical staples like a kind of tuber called cocoyam, interspersed with coffee trees laden with tiny flowers scented like orange blossoms.
The lush emerald green hills rise sharply from the North Korean shoreline, a few sparse patches of corn growing up its side.
Consuelo and her neighbors live in homes made of blue tarps, surrounded by patches of corn and rows of African oil palms.
Trees are everywhere - some in rows separating patches of corn and sorghum, others in clusters, and all pulling carbon out of the atmosphere, converting it to wood and infusing it into the soil.
Her father, Graham (Mr. Gibson), parts the stalks in his densely planted cornfield in Bucks County, Pa., and beholds a large patch of head-high corn flattened in a perfect circle.
The New Yorker, August 30 , 1952P. 16 Predatory animals raiding the corn patch of a Chappaqua farmer at night constituted a sore trial to him until he put a radio out in his garden, tuned it in to Station WNEW, the 24-hour station, and turned it up loud.
Then they upped their demands and wanted to grab a patch of her late husband's corn and millet fields.
In 1997, Roberts was walking through a bootlegger's field near Dillon, South Carolina, when he came upon a patch of Carolina white gourdseed an all but extinct variety of corn once famous for its floral aroma and creamy texture.
Pico is a very orderly little island, with rectangles of corn walled off precisely from adjacent patches that support grape arbors.
