Beans talk
Aug 03, 2022
2 minutes
Words Chloe Thomson
You haven’t really been there, done that until you’ve grown heirloom beans. These versatile pulses can be used fresh or dried or as podding beans and the heirloom world is full of wondrous colours and patterns.
Beans are among the oldest cultivated crops in the world — evidence points to their cultivation up to 9000 years ago.
But what is a bean? We genus (including common green beans, borlotti beans and kidney beans); the genus (including adzuki beans and black-eyed peas); and (the winged bean).
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