They’re all called Conover butter beans. Best includes practical tips in his book on how to properly collect, ferment and dry tomato seed, and how to pick and dry heirloom beans. He shares some ...

Recipes include soup beans, chuck roast and parsnips. Maggie and Lindsey learn about heirloom seeds from a farmer in ... We had our own milk, own butter, own meat, chickens, the whole nine yards.

Cut lemons into sixths and remove seeds ... beans are almost totally creamy, add remaining carrots, garlic, turnips, kohlrabi, parsley-chive mixture and spinach to the pot. Stir in the butter ...

Rodger Winn traces his obsession with seed ... butter-yellow flowers...okra is part of the hibiscus family. Even if you don’t eat okra, it’s pretty in the garden. And the purple-podded beans ...

She passed on the bean seed and the stories that went with them ... Ruby Caudill played an important role in preserving the heirloom bean plant that is the focus of this article. Equally important, ...

The seeds of these heirloom, or heritage plants ... Black jack kale is lined up next to purple podded best, Ray's butter bean, giant stringless and parfree's dragon. The oldest variety in the ...

Hershberger will start in April 2023 by planting the heirloom seeds with several hundred varieties of modern butter beans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture seed bank in Washington state.

The following excerpt on heirloom bean varieties was taken from chapter 7, “Beans, Lima Beans, and Runner Beans.” Buy the brand new e-book of Weaver’s gardening classic in the MOTHER EARTH ...