tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7510401356434571028.post7262608134701236070..comments2024-03-15T05:42:30.304+00:00Comments on Transition Norwich Blog: Mean BeansJon Curranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17262576893677134833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7510401356434571028.post-79267958754452409892012-03-12T17:36:53.913+00:002012-03-12T17:36:53.913+00:00Hi Anni,
Thanks for your comment - sounds like yo...Hi Anni,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment - sounds like you have an amazing garden (no wonder Erik is after some seeds!)<br /><br />The beans you're talking about are much more challenging to grow, dry and store on a larger scale, though it is being done in the UK. As part of my research for this project I visited a community that feeds around 40 adults from its own production including at least 1 or 2 bean meals a week all year round. They grow 6 or 7 'high status' bean varieties including pinto and black kidney. Whole plants are pulled up when they seem as dry as they'll get then they're hung in barns for further drying. Finally the whole plants are put through a big garden shredder this separates the bean from the pod remarkably efficiently and does little damage to the seeds.<br /><br />JosiahJosiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651420962825076168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7510401356434571028.post-83946161976805295992012-03-10T20:31:17.733+00:002012-03-10T20:31:17.733+00:00Hi Anni,
Would you swap some seeds, please? Just ...Hi Anni,<br /><br />Would you swap some seeds, please? Just off the top of my head, I have seeds of amaranth, carrot, land cress, quinoa, sorrel, tomato, and others. Please email me at tinyurl.com/contacterik<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Erik.Erik Buitenhuishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09594194549895053653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7510401356434571028.post-9964901094245815802012-03-09T16:58:21.623+00:002012-03-09T16:58:21.623+00:00This is brilliant stuff! I have just come indoors ...This is brilliant stuff! I have just come indoors from planting a dozen precious heritage red crimson broad beans - the first seeds sown this year - and I am really excited about them and all kinds of beans.<br /><br />We definitely need many more beans to enable protein consumption to move away from animal proteins to veggie sources such as beans or mushrooms and as you point out from overseas beans to local ones.<br /><br />I planted loads of field beans in the autumn of 2010 as green manure, but when they came up and flowered last year I had to leave them in place to produce beans which we duly ate and loved. <br /><br />I saved plenty of seed and re-sowed again last autumn. The plants have overwintered okay, although some were cut back by snow and frost they sprouted again from the base, and some are now starting to produce flower buds. Being so hardy I am sure that they are potentially really useful. <br /><br />Spurred on by this I am going to stuff as many beans as I possibly can amongst my perennial veggies, along the fences round the property and will also try growing some tall runners up trees.Anni Kelseyhttp://annisveggies.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com