Wear the harvest.
Heirloom corn to heirloom jewelry with living, lasting gems. Grown in our garden and transformed by hand.
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Rare Cob Collection No. 1: Dusted Rose
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Solitaire Necklace
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Four Corns Hammered Hoops
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Baby Anklet (With Baby Corn!!!)
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Shape Shifter (First EVER! Beaded Piece)
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How we grow our Gem Corn jewels
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Growing corn
Read MoreYear after year, we plant only the best seeds for jewelry in early Spring near our studio in Northern California, lovingly and intentionally tending to our corn plants and flowers through the harvest in October.
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Harvesting
We gather to celebrate and welcome these new seeds into the world, carefully and slowly unwrapping each cob with child-like awe at each unique rainbow palette more creative and colorful than the last.
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Selecting seeds
After waiting for the seeds to dry connected to the cob, we remove the seeds from the cob and sort out the most radiant and rich colors to be transformed into jewelry, keeping enough aside for next year's crop.
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Creating gems
An 18k gold top is secured on each corn. We coat all of them in a non-toxic, BPA-free, food safe coating that protects the seeds from the elements so they can live a long life with you! And some get drilled so they can become beaded pieces.
Our promise
Over 3% of every sale goes to Indigenous-led seed projects.
Glass Gem corn exists because generations of Indigenous seedkeepers saved it. Giving back to that work is part of every piece we make.
Where your purchases have gone since 2022
- Cherokee Nation Seed BankHonoring the Cherokee roots of Glass Gem corn
- Native Seeds/SEARCHConserving the heirloom seeds of the arid Southwest and the Indigenous communities who keep them
- Wampanoag women seedkeepersGrowing and protecting Indigenous King Philip corn
- The Nisenan TribeThe original people of the land where our corn grows
- An agroforestry teaching farm in ColombiaOn Indigenous land, standing against local mining
- Mujeres de Maíz
Our story
Artist, founder
In 2021, Gillian was shown a dream of dripping in corn jewelry—and she answered the call.
Weaving her love for beauty, corn, nature, and artistry, she set out to create something new from something old (9,000 years old!!!): corn & resin jewelry.
Now, Gillian plants ornamental corn every spring with her beloveds in Grass Valley, California and Taos, New Mexico.
After the fall harvest, the cobs dry for a full year before their seeds are meticulously transformed into wearable gems for you to adorn ear-to-ear.
