Pole beans continue to grow, flower, and set fruits over a long period of time. The pods and seeds will mature in succes¬sion, based on when the fruits were set. Filled with advice for the home ...

This is an old cutshort variety with two divergent histories. On the one hand‚ it was preserved among the Amish farmers of southeastern Pennsylvania under the name Gnuddelbuhn, which translates as a ...

The first spring that Shirley Bellows planted the special bean this story is about, she picked it off a list in the Upper Canada Seeds company catalogue and sent $2 by cheque in the mail to Toronto ...

At my local grocery store, out here in the middle of nowhere, a head of cauliflower costs $5 and a wilted ball of lettuce might run you $3. It’s a far cry from the vibrant fruit and vegetable markets ...

I grew up in England, where beans on toast is indeed a breakfast staple. It's just one way to cook the bean, so often described as "humble," though it is anything but. Part of the pulse family, we've ...

Blue Jay beans had all but disappeared from Canadian gardens, until a seed saver and her grassroots network revived it. Their success illustrates how to save plants that might someday save us. Growing ...

With all of the pies, muffins, and preserves that are being created this season (not to mention the pumpkins that’ll be carved a few months from now), there will be an extraordinary windfall of seeds ...

We always save some of our Green Windsor broad beans as we cannot buy them now. However, this year we looked at the beans in the paper bag and some of them have holes in them! Also on inspection we ...

Left: The author's Granny Ruby Haynes Caudill, 97, was a postmistress and seamstress. She passed on the bean seed and the stories that went with them. Right: Katharine Campbell Haynes and William ...