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Merry Christmas Everybody, Pretty Beans To You.

Pea Bean Turkey - Pole Dry. This bean might be the one that has been grown in England for over 400 years. That's maybe I don't know for sure. Obainted it from a grower in Catasaugua, Pennsylvania in 2017. This bean has many look-a-likes. This is the most grown of the Network beans. This years...

Old Joe Clark - Left Photo. Also known as Pink Half-Runner and Red Peanut Bean, Old Joe Clark is an heirloom bean that produces early crops of 3 to 4-inch pods that mature from green to a unique fuchsia color. Traditionally used as a snap bean with a unique, somewhat nutty flavor as well as a...

Monachine - Pole, Snap, Dry. Photo Left. Monachine beans can be eaten fresh or dried. Fresh, they are stringless and yellow-green. The bean is an heirloom from Italy that was brought to the U.S. Pacific Northwest by Angelo Pellegrini, an English professor and culinary expert at the University of...

Yes you should wait before sending your packages. We don't want things sitting so long that they get lost and forgotten about forever. The U.S. post office is not accepting packages or mail to go to Canada. I'm sure the backlog is known about here.

Menenga - Bush. Left Photo. Maybe a snap bean. This years grow out was the first since I acquired the bean in a 30 pound (13.6 Kilos) bag of beans that Joeph Simcox collected in many places. I believe this is an African variety from Kenya. This years grower is from DeSoto, Wisconsin. Milk And...

Louisiana - Pole Snap - Left Photo. I have grown this bean as far back as 1979. It's been one of my favorites since. I have gotten small amount of snap pods to pick as early as 62 days. The real harvest starts at about 75 days. Green round pods with purple streaks. I pick these up to about 7...

Blue Spitball - Pole Dry - I was at the 2019 Appalachian Seed in Pikeville, Kentucky. After the swap all of us vendors met in the hotel lobby that we were staying at to socialize. Joseph Simcox was there that year and he brought a bag of beans that a lot of people were picking seed out of. I...

It was a pumpkin crossed with an acron squash.

Cliff Dweller - Pole Lima. Left Photo. The name would suggest that the bean may have been grown by the Cliff Dwelling people of the southwest U.S. Otherwise I can not find any history of this bean. Sent to me in 2019 by a man who had a lima collection while he lived in Iowa. This years grower is...

Karachaganak - Semi Runner Dry. Left photo. This bean was stablized and named by Jerry Maddox who now lives in Louisiana. It was one of 7 segregations from one of the 52 packets of outcrossed beans that I got from Will Bonsall in 2015. I sent out about half the outcrossed packets to other people...

I got information about J. Carroll's West Virginia lima bean on Facebook that I posted in post #1079. I believe I have pieced together the modern history of this bean. A fellow on our seed swap circut John Woodworth his neighbor since 1993 was Jimmy O'dell Carroll in Gate City, Virginia. Jim...

Jesse Fiske - Bush Dry. Left Photo. Pre-1740’s variety. The bean was brought originally by a Jesse Fisk who emigrated from England in the 1740’s to Charleston, New Hampshire. I acquired this bean from a grower in Blyth, Ontario. This years grower is from Seattle, Washington. Joyce Fetterly's...

It's amazing the amount people all over the world that love beans. Like collecting them and growing them and eating them. They are actually also possibly keeping varieties from going extinct by doing all the growing, sharing and collecting. I thought about posting my beans on instagram too...

Inca Pea - Pole Dry. Left Photo. If you remember me mentioning the 30 pounds of Joseph Simcox beans I picked up in February in 2022. This is one of the survivors that has been refreshed a little this year. There was another one I had posted earlier maybe two weeks ago called Menenga that wound...

Headrick Greasy Cutshort - Pole. Left Photo. Appalachian variety. Very productive. This is another bean that I got from the Remy Orlowski collection Via Karen Golden of Highland, Michigan in 2022. This years grower is from Mason, Michigan. Ice - Semi Runner. Right photo. Very light green pods...

Yay ! The Canadian mail strike might be over. That's good news. That was a long one.

Gopher - Pole Left Photo. Another of the Will Bonsall crosses. This years grow out also contained a similar pattern but a lighter shade. This bean was named in 2016 by Amanda Winland, of Mount Alto, West Virginia. Still not totaly stable. This years grow was from De Soto, Wisconsin. Grape -...

Galloway - Pole Dry. Left Photo. This bean came from one of the outcrossed beans that Will Bonsall sent to me in 2015 . I named this one in 2017. Some of the Galloway samples that I grow or send out come back with only one off type. Some of the seed samples don't have any off types after growing...

No problem. I just wanted to verify that I wasn't going out of my mind.