Beans, Army, pole(85 days) Phaseolus vulgaris - We were fortunate to receive this beautiful semi-trailing dry bean from seed steward Beatrice in Gilgil, Kenya. It produces 4” pods with 5-6 round beautiful army green round seeds. It has a semi trailing habit that can benefit, but does not require support. Dries down uniformly which is a valuable trait for a dry bean. Available only in our Large and Homestead CSA’s Packet: 1/2oz...

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Beans, Jacob's Cattle, Dry-Bush (100 days) - Phaseolus vulgaris  A Slow Food Ark of taste variety, “This is bean is the oldest name given to this variety, also known as the Trout or Appaloosa bean, that originates from the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. The Passamaquoddy indigenous people of Maine were said to have given some as a gift to Joseph Clark, the first Caucasian child born in Lubec, Maine in the 1600s. Even through the late 1900s, this bean had a very local distribution limited to the northeastern United States, and particularly Maine, and Prince Edward Island, Canada.  This is a plump kidney bean with white and reddish-brown specks, said to have earned its name from its resemblance to the spotted Hereford cattle. The beans can be harvested young and eaten when the pods are still green and the markings on the beans are only pale pink in color. They can also be harvested and dried at full maturity, after their pods have become golden yellow and too fibrous to eat. As the beans mature and dry out, the markings darken to their maroon color.” Packet: one ounce...

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Bean, Pigeon (100 days) Phaseolus vulgaris A small seeded, drought adapted, bush dry bean.  Round seeds have dark speckles over a mettled gray that resembles the color of a pigeon.  A novel find from a seed swap that is not to be confused with the tropical legume known as Pigeon Pea. Packet: ½ ounce...

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Beans, Resilient Tiger Grex (90 days) Phaseolus vulgaris  This is a new segregating population that is the result of a cross with Tiger’s Eye (aka Zapallo) bush bean and the Beefy Resilient Grex bred by Carol Deppe, who had this to say about it: “Bred for organic systems. The most intensely beefy flavored bean I have ever eaten. Also the most productive dry bean I have ever grown by a factor of 2X or more. This is a segregating population of beans that represent the F3 and F4 of crosses between ‘Gaucho’ common bean X ‘Black Mitla’ tepary bean.) (Phaseolus vulgaris X Phaseolus acutifolius). ‘Gaucho’ is a very early, very delicious gold dry bean. ‘Black Mitla’ tepary is a widely adapted bean with a powerful delicious flavor as a dry bean. Both are small beans round in cross section and about twice as long as wide. Both are easy to thresh. Teparies are unusually heat resistant and drought hardy, and are resistant or tolerant to diseases common beans succumb to. Packet: Half Ounce...

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Beans, Zuni Gold trailing (85 days) Phaseolus vulgaris - We obtained this gorgeous bush dry bean from LeeAnn Hill at a seed swap in Idaho. Seeds are oblong with a mottled gold over white. Early maturing with uniform ripening habit. An excellent short season dry bean which is rewarding and beautiful to grow. The Zuni people originate and continue to steward land in the high desert south of present day Albuquerque, New Mexico. HEIRLOOM Packet: 1/2 ounce...

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