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Turkey Craw - Pole/Dry/Snap - Photo Left. I think we all know the story of the original bean being found by a hunter in the craw of a turkey. This bean alawys seems to be a reliable grower. This year was no exception. I have never tried them as a snap bean. Has anyone tried eating Turkey Craw in...

Tonawanda Strawberry - Pole Dry. Left photo. Native North American bean. I got this from Eleanor Hucker in 2019. Eleanor has Michigan Staple Seeds. I grew this in 2019 and it didn't do well that year. This year I got a small amount of seed again but it was nice quality seed. True Red Cranberry...

Ask me for the Seneca Bird Egg. I'll send it, so you can grow it out this coming year. I know mine will grow. I just added another page today to my website. Page seven Se-Z. Whatever you want on those pages it's your for the asking. There are new beans mixed into all the other six pages. Have...

Seneca Bird Egg - Pole Dry. Left photo. Native American variety. Given to me by a native man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylavania in 2014. I think there is a pretty good amount of interest in native beans. I get fairly regular requests for Seneca Bird Egg. Small Red - Pole dry. Photo right. Very...

Riga d' Oro - Pole Dry. Left photo. It's a beautiful seed. I grew it last year and it didn't do much. It was grown out again this year and only returned about 2 handfuls of beans. Maybe I just haven't found the right soil and the seson for this year yet. I received the bean last winter from a...

Peruvian Goose - Pole dry. It climbs only to about 5 feet. Seems nicely productive for a short pole bean. Over a couple of years I kept getting requests for this bean until I ran out of them except for what I keep for growing about three years ago. Finally got a crop of them grown this year...

Yeah things like this are inconvenient and as painful as they seem to be. That strike will be over eventually. For post customers it's a waiting game.

Osborne & Clyde - Pole Dry. Left Photo. I have grown this bean as far back as 1980. It produces two different colors with the same pattern. The bean is very productive and produced a good size crop this year. 8 plants produced 17.85 ounces (506 gm). Oude Sloveense - Right Photo. Pole snap bean...

The decrease in bean offerings could have something to do with some of their harvests not working out. There could also be a drop off in grower contracts for some reason. Dropping some varieties from their offerings could also be due to a drop in customer interest in some varieties. Vegetables...

Were you part of the Network this past summer?. If you want to send it I would say ok and a big thank you. With as much seed as I have here it makes me feel that I shouldn't have it. I feel sometimes like I'm taking away from someone that maybe doesn't have as much as I do. If you do send them I...

Mbombo Green - Pole Dry Snap. Right Photo. The bean was nicely productive this past summer. This unique green colored seed can be used in soups or pods can be eaten as a green vegetable. The variety originates in Kenya Africa. To the people of the Kuba tribe Mbombo is associated with the Creator...

Lynnfield - Pole dry right photo. Large beans. My growing of this bean goes back to probably 1978. John Withee who's oranization of Wanigan Associates was operated out of his home in guess. Where else but Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He described Lynnfield as a selection from Lila Stuart that has...

Lazy - Pole Snap left photo. It was given to me as Lazy Wife but this is not the original Lazy Wife so I'm going to call it Lazy. The original Lazy Wife is a nearly round and glossy, but in the 1980's a white kidney shaped bean was marketed. The flavor of this bean was not of the orginal...

Well thank you for the compliment. I think my notes could be even more detailed. I do try to keep track of where I obtain a bean and when. I also keep a record of my harvest of seed each year. Sometimes I can just remember things about some of the beans. Sometimes I take photos of green and dry...

Not necessarily. Sometimes I will pick out a bean from the network that I think might sell well on the sales pages and grow it out so there is a large quantity here and put it on the sale pages. Are you interested in buying something you see on the network pages? If there is something on the...

Khabarovsk - Pole dry. Left photo. I had received the variety from a grower in Ohio in 2015. My first grow out in 2015 was wonderful. After a disappointing season in 2022 were the seed was so terrible I didn't save any of it. My 2023 grow out of 8 plants produced only 1 ounce (28 grams). I got...

Holy - Pole dry, left photo. I acquired this bean from the Central Tree Crop Research Trust of New Zealand in 2012. This year was the sixth grow out since 2012. Nice bean productive. Basically a white bean. Mild flavor if you want to stew them for some recipe. Italian - Pole Snap, right photo...

Do you mean how many do I grow in a single season? Do you mean how many I have total? I guess I can answer my own questions. I usually grow over a hundred varieties in a season. The number of beans I have in storage I could only estimate at around 1,400. Did that answer your question. All my...

I have never eaten the pretty white ones with the dark caps. I've sold them on my website and taken them to seed swaps and sold them there also. They were grown this year because I would be running out of them sometime.

Giant Nilgiri - Pole dry photo left. This bean came to me in 2018 from a grower in Pennsylvania. Large seed. The bean comes from the mountain region of Nilgiri, India also called the Blue Mountains. Hemelvaartboontje Pole Dry. Purchase this bean from DeaFlora in 2014 and have been happy growing...