The Best Way to keep Popcorn fresh

Fill an airtight container or sealable bag with any kernels left in the bag after opening.
Store your popcorn in a cool, dark area that is free from excess heat and moisture. 

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When your garden has many stalks, it sometimes suffocates. If they are planted too close together, their leaves get entangled in other stalks causing the popcorn seeds to be not so tasty due to suffocation. Sometimes too much heat makes for a 5 alarm drill and everyone comes running due to the attention that is needed and priority of the alarm before the seeds dry out. Too much moisture can cause a seed to never fully develop to its expected capacity which may also need extra tending.  So how do you keep fresh?

She sometimes tells me about how it was growing up.  She could never fully understand why people act the way they do in her family.  They all came from the same garden, yet each are so different from each other. For example, there was the 8th stalk that caused alot of trouble in their early years because he felt that others always got more of the sunlight.  As the others were "perceived" to be gaining all of the sunlight, the 8th was getting its nutrients from pulling more of its enrichment from the soil that the others depended on. 

She told me of a time that the whole family was sitting around the table waiting for dinner.  Because of the times, big family and her father overseas, money was tight.  Siblings always fought for whatever reason, but when it came to food, it became survival.  Her mother had cooked a whole chicken that had to feed the 9 stalks.  Each one had received a piece of the chicken accompanied by the traditional rice to go with the meal.  The 8th stalk told the rest of them to go look out the window and look at the big fight.  While all of them curiously went to the window asking themselves "Where the hell is this big fight?", the troublemaker decided to eat the whole chicken all by himself.  As they backed away from the window and saw that the chicken was gone, World War III erupted.  Forks and spoons were flying all over the place and words were coming out of everyone's mouth like sharp daggers all aimed towards the target as he sat there full and content. It wasn't the first time it happened and by far it wasn't the last.  As years had gone by,certain enrichments he became accustomed to indulging on became a huge impairment to his health.  Unfortunately, he was the first stalk to die from the frost.

Others had an unbalanced mixture of heat and moisture including her.  Some came close to the perfect blend but something else threw that mix off.  Perhaps a lack of "proper" education, marrying the "unapproved" spouse or having children that grew in different kinds of gardens, not the preferred garden that some feel they cannot stray away from.  Even though the main stalks remain in the same garden, some have grown a further distance away to receive the right amount of sunlight and its fair share of the rain drops. But under the right amount of shade to not get burned or drowned out.  Isolating their weather conditions helped them live.

Sometimes I see that she gets sad because she is one of those that had to make that move to grow.  When too many stalks are together they tend to intertwine too much in the life cycle that a stalk lives.  Seeds don't get the chance to mature they way they want it to because of the exposure. For her, her life cycle was something the others wanted to control or have input on.  Even though she had her fair share of detriments and successes in her life, I believe others were jealous of how she lived her life cycle.  She is one that had no problem fighting for what she believed in.  Being the protector, all though being a girl, protected her siblings if they were being bullied.  Played sports like no other girl and married and divorced when it was time.   Partied and travelled as she saw fit, not needing the approval of the other stalks for her survival. 

Because she made the move, and the others could not get her to follow the cycles they wanted her to lead, she had a fresher outlook on how the remainder of her life will play out.  She answers to no one, but God.  She is free to say her opinion as she sees fit and without regret.  She meets other stalks from different gardens and learns about their gardens.  She is fresh.  And life tastes good to her.  Sealed away from the bad weather and kicking out contamination from her container of seeds.  If she has to allow them in, it will be on her terms.