2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[Triffid]

The delicate 'Marie-Louise' bean. I love the name, and I love the color of the pods, reminds me a little of peaches.View attachment 77289

Looking up Marie-Louise and came across this, @heirloomgal did the pods develop stripes at a later stage, like the ones in the pic attached below?

 

[heirloomgal]

Looking up Marie-Louise and came across this, @heirloomgal did the pods develop stripes at a later stage, like the ones in the pic attached below?

Yes, that was exactly what they looked like.

 

[Dahlia]

As we begin our thirteenth year. I think of all the wonderful bean varieties and varieties of everything humans usually grow for themselves. All that we are blessed with today. How marvelous it is that we can experience them. I think if most of what we have today was if not saved in the past, to be past on into the future, who is us today. What a sad and maybe boring experience today’s growers might have. Even a possible threat to our food security. We would have probably would eventually found out what was missing. There are people who document in books with color drawings or photographs varieties that exist at those present moments in time. When I look at the publication called “Beans Of New York. I don’t see most of those varieties in circulation. Most of them have never passed through my hands. I don’t see listings for them in the Seed Savers yearbook or in posts on Facebook groups. Could these varieties have been renamed and are still around. Maybe, but I think not likely. I hope all growers of heirloom and old varieties today will feel responsible for what we collectively have taken on to grow and to posses.

It is one of my greatest hopes that all the varieties that have been passed on to growers through this bean network. Will be stewarded if not for the rest of their lives, will be passed on to others to grow and steward them. Just as we joy in all that we have today. The growers of the future will be glad we saved.


Some of the bean on this list I don't know if they are pole, bush or semi runner. The Dana Manchester beans were collected I believe somewhere in Africa. I will probably write to Dana and ask if he knows the growth habit. Most of the rest of them are likely pole beans.

Come to think of it I do know just about which one are pole beans. I'll mark them.


Priority List for 2025

Big John - Pole, I think this is an Appalachian bean
Black Cherry - Simcox collected - Pole
Bobis D’ Albanga
Brown Eyed Bobby - Bush Snap
Canario GMSX 3 - UC Of Cal at Davis - semi runner
Canario Gmsx 6 - UC Of Cal at Davis - semi runner
Coal Camp - Pole Appalachian bean
Cold Creek - Bush Dry
College Early - Bush Snap Australia
Dick Harrell - Pole Appalachina
Four Corners Red + UC of Cal at Davis - semi runner
Frauenbohne - Bush Dry
Grand Mere - Simcox collected - pole snap
Joe Bean - Pole
King City Pink - bush
Krupke - pole
Lewis County Fall - Pole Appalachian bean
Mestia Svaneti - Simcox collected - Pole
Mores Konegin - Pole
Mufuba Chai - Dana Manchester
Mulwanyi - 13 - Dana Manchester
Nambale - 15 - Dana Manchester
Njano This might be - Simcox collected
Ottis Stewart
Pink Fog - Simcox collected - Semi runner
John’s Best - Bush Snap
Purgatorio - Pole snap Italian
Red Head - Bush Dry
Rio Zape - UC at Davis - Semi Runner
Robert Hazelwood
Rognon De Cog
Rose
Rosey’s Red - Bush Dry
Sequoia
Southwest Gold - UC of Cal at Davis Probably Semi Runner
Southwest Red - UC of Cal at Davis Probably Semi Runner
Striped Double Hull Fall
Sunrise – UC at Davis - UC of Cal at Davis Probably Semi Runner
Tanzanian Grey - Simcox collected
Tiger’s Eye – UC of Cal at Davis
Tyra
Yellow - Dana Manchester
Krupke

There are apple enthusiasts in our area that go around and search for apple trees from over a hundred years ago and they try to preserve those heirloom varieties! They even mix the old varieties with new apple varieties to make even more varieties to choose from! This is wonderful that people are out there doing similar work with beans.

 

[flowerbug]

There are apple enthusiasts in our area that go around and search for apple trees from over a hundred years ago and they try to preserve those heirloom varieties! They even mix the old varieties with new apple varieties to make even more varieties to choose from! This is wonderful that people are out there doing similar work with beans.

bean genetics are much more simpler than apple, but i still appreciate both of them very highly.

this area of MI used to have a lot more apple tree farms than it has now, but they are still around.

at one time i was going to put in some apple trees out back but the deer population is so high here that i'd have to double fence the whole area or each planted tree would need to be fenced.