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Just tell your friend since we are not sending the beans to the USDA in Linden, New Jersey and not using the USDA green/yellow label...

Do you live in Kentucky? Then I think I know your name but won't give it away here. I've been here so long there is no way I can escape...

Exciting to have the 2026 thread started so promptly and with much appreciated warm words. Great! Bobis d’Albenga (Albenga I believe...

Plants are so beautiful! I love the delicate purple bloom!

Hello Everyone ! Here we are now in 2026 beginning our 14th year in this Network. At some point in time it felt like a family to me and...

I finally managed to shell out all beans and freeze the last ones — this year, after many years, I had bean weevils again. Despite the...

i am getting there, but still shelling beans out yet. not sure at the moment how many more i have to finish and then also the sorting...

42 million people in my country, not a single one of them offers Chriesistei, of any strain. Nor did I receive any strain in...

Heirloomgal wrote " Chriesistei ~ pole In researching this variety I realized it's translated name is 'Cherry Pit'. I don't usually...

haha, it's all ok, no harm done. :)

Ohhhh flowerbug I'm so very sorry I ruined your surprise. Sometimes it helps if you include little reminder notes in your package. I...

I categorically declare that I have not read it :)

@heirloomgal The story to this Swiss bean: this bean was found in a chest in a farm house in the Emmental region in the 1940s after a...

@heirloomgal, just saw this. Fun fact: this explanation comes originally from me, sent to a Canadian bean preserver. And I am an...

for the record these are some of the beans i grew and returned to @Blue-Jay...