why does it just taste better?

I have often wondered why fresh garden produce is so much tastier then the store bought stuff. We have quite a bounty this year and getting it all preserved for the winter is a chore my wife totally enjoys. Our third planting of sweet corn is in right now and I just brought her home around 200 ears! The best way she has found to strip the kernals off the ears is to put the end of the ear in the center hole of a bundt pan and strip with a sharp knife.The corn tastes much better if you do not try to cut too deep,taking approximately 3/4 of each kernal. The bundt pan catches all the kernals and there is not nearly the mess.