Recent Comments
Tag Archives: thicket bean
The Edible World Part 1
One of the great benefits of having a nursery was to inspire others to create gardens filled with unique and delicious fruits and vegetables. Most of the plants I grew were not available by other nurseries or produced by a … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged agriculture, Beans, ecology, food, nature, nutrition, seeds, thicket bean
Comments Off on The Edible World Part 1
Dreams of Crop Diversity-The Perennial Bean
The thought of creating or exploring a new crop is a good idea. It is very simple. You start with seeds. All new crops start with new seeds. Like an idea the new seeds are something that no one has … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged agriculture, bean consciousness, bean hybrids, Beans, beneficial-plants, crop-diversity, ecology, food, garden, gardening, hybrid plants, Lima bean, perennial bean, plant-diversity, seeds, thicket bean, vegetables
Comments Off on Dreams of Crop Diversity-The Perennial Bean
The Thicket Bean Explodes
Before the advent of annual beans, the thicket bean was well known. It was the protein that did not run away. It is a species of perennial bean found throughout the midwest and northeastern U.S. Unlike the thousands of selections … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged Beans, ecology, enrich, enrichment, food, garden, gardening, nature, plants, thicket bean, vegetables
Comments Off on The Thicket Bean Explodes
The Glorious, Exalted and Most Powerful Beans
Every year in the spring I go through my small bins of seeds and figure out what I am going to plant. I have no plan so the choices are wide open. I like that idea. It reminds me of … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration
Tagged Beans, Lima bean, thicket bean
Comments Off on The Glorious, Exalted and Most Powerful Beans
biologicalenrichment 