Inhabitat

Seed-Saving Part 2: Storing Beans, Squash, and Other Large Seeds

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 ...
Statesman Journal

'Kew Blue' beans tasty, colorful and seeds can be saved

Question: I have some purple pole beans that I grew this summer. I got the seed from a friend. She says they are called Kew Blue. Can I save these bean seeds from my crop for next year? If this fails, ...
The Globe and Mail

These beans might someday save us from a giant problem. Good thing someone saved them first

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 ...
Mountain Xpress

Cool beans: Sow True Seed founder Carol Koury on the Appalachian greasy bean

Sow True Seed's Glenwood Cut Short greasy bean seeds. Last December, a cotton sack arrived at the headquarters of Sow True Seed, a small Asheville-based seed company selling open-pollinated and ...