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=== 21st century: Zellwood Corn now in Mount Dora === Sweet corn from Zellwood is now consigned to history, the Zellwood Sweet Corn Festival, which was still held every year until 2013, having switched to entirely out-of-Zellwood produce grown on sand farms rather than the Zellwood mucklands in 1998.{{sfn|Mormino|2008|p=185}}{{sfn|OW|1998}}{{sfn|Reiley|2017}} Even so, by 2017, only one such sand farm (located in [[Mount Dora, Florida|Mount Dora]] rather than in Zellwood) was left growing Zellwood-branded corn, a brand that it had adopted in 2001, selling the now comparatively expensive to produce corn as a luxury corn brand to restaurants rather than retail outlets.{{sfn|Reiley|2017}}{{sfn|VGN|2007}} The brand owners, Long and Scott Farms, had hosted the Zellwood Sweet Corn Festival until 2013.{{sfn|Reiley|2017}}{{sfn|Miller|2022}}{{sfn|OS|2009}} It had had various hiatuses up to that point, with both Big Berthas on display in 2011 but not operational, and the festival not held at all in 2009.{{sfn|OS|2011}}{{sfn|OS|2009}} A replacement '''Mount Dora Corn Festival''' was begun in 2024.{{sfn|Argueta|2024}} The commemorative quilts were the '''Lake Apopka Farmworker Memorial Quilt Project''', two hand-sewn quilts made by members of the erstwhile African American farmworker community.{{sfn|Berkeley|2012|p=331}}{{sfn|Slongwhite|2014a|pp=39–40}}{{sfn|Economos|2013}} Each quilt panel memorialized someone who had died working on the farm, sometimes representing them at work but othertimes representing them doing what they enjoyed in life, such as fishing, cooking, or reading.{{sfn|Berkeley|2012|p=331}}{{sfn|Economos|2013}} In 2012 they went on tour around various workshops and conferences on environmental justice.{{sfn|Berkeley|2012|p=331}}
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