Heirloom Beans | Kentucky Life | KET
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2013
- Bill Best, a renowned seed collector, farmer, and proponent of sustainable mountain agriculture, has over 600 varieties of beans.
Heirloom varieties of vegetables are gaining popularity as more people return to small-scale, local sources of food. The Southern Appalachian region has long been a prime source of bean species, because of its climate and the longtime cultivation by the people here. In Breathitt County alone, 48 distinct species of beans have been found.
Unlike the modern beans, eaten mostly for their jackets, these heirloom beans are grown for the rich-in-protein bean itself. Most heirloom beans are string beans. According to Best, most beans produced by modern breeders are stringless, which are tougher and usually harvested before the seed appears.
Our friend Bob Perry, chef at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, joins retired Berea college professor Bill Best in his kitchen to demonstrate several ways to prepare heirloom beans, both traditional and unconventional. - Навчання та стиль
Green beans (pole beans) and now Bush beans are mine and my eldest sons favorite. Been stringing pole beans since I’ve been a young kid with my southern elders all my life. Now I’ve made it a tradition to grow them for my kids. And now I’ve started harvesting their seeds.
I can't believe this only has a little over a hundred views.
I love these beans! Being raised in the WNC mountains, I grew up eating beans a few times a week! Our favorites were the "greasy cut short" beans and the "Dutch half-runner" beans. We didn't really need to put much pork or any onions in these when we cooked them, they were so flavorful!
I grew the not tough beans this year and they are delicious and very productive. Will grow again, thanks Bill for all you do.
Bill is an absolute legend.
Bill, you are AMAZING! Thank you so much for this video! I am going to be growing some dry beans in next year's garden. This country needs more people like you!
I too am fascinated by the beauty of beans. The markings on some are striking. We as a people have become largely detached from the land, and I find that sad. We lose so much that matters in the ever more frantic quest for "convenience".
We Rais goose beans from my wife's family that have been in the family as long as anyone can remember the huge thick and never have any problems and the taste is best iv ever had
I am Montagnard indigenous when I was grow up my parents planted different of varieties of bean after we harvest our rice crops we harvest bean .
You can easily order some of Bill's collection of heirloom beans here to grow in your garden, they grow the same as any pole beans ...
www.heirlooms.org/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Wonderful video! Thank you so much! I’m headed to Bill’s Website to order my seeds!
what was the website?
My grandparents raised shortcut rabbit beans. I raise Case Knife beans (white bean not the brown one)
Great video! I have Luster Palmer greasy beans. I’m only in my second year of growing them so I’m still learning.
A real hero
Am looking for Bald Hornet beans from eastern Kentucky. Are grown some in Breathitt, Magoffin, Floyd, and Johnson Counties. Thanks!
Where can I buy some Big John seeds, thank you
What is the name of his website?
beans beans good for your heart more you eat the more you fart
stinging worms what ?
is heirloom pest that be saved too?
needs t-shirt says jack had right idea trade family cow for magic beans.
These beans aren't native to America. LOL
you better google where green beans came from real quick youre confidently very wrong here
Read the name he uses, that explains He's waiting to stand in line with the rest of America's sheep in Biden new world order