Bush Dry

(P. vulgaris) Also known as Pepa de Zappalo, this heirloom comes originally from Chile and Argentina. For those who value dry beans for their aesthetic beauty as well as their taste, Tiger's Eye is practically without peer. The large flat beans are mustard yellow with burgundy swirls. Worth growing for...

(P. vulgaris) Known for their distinctive black and white markings, these beauties set abundant fruit and finish even in the late and cool growing seasons we “sometimes” experience in the PNW. With 4-6 seeds per pod, you’ll be rewarded with steaming pots of chili and soup just when the weather...

(P. vulgaris) On brisk Fall evenings in November, we begin to share meals with friends that we have since learned are fit for nobility! A small pot of simmering Flageolet beans, a sprinkling of sage and salt, and a generous helping of good olive oil topped with freshly picked and...

(P. vulgaris) This beautiful bean is the product of a stabilized cross between the classic “Jacob’s Cattle” and “Paint”. Early, large, and prolific they’ve found a lasting place in our dry bean collection. The mottled, speckled gold and white beans are about the size of pintos with a rich flavor...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* (P. vulgaris) Years ago, when our son was barely able to ride in a bike seat, we spent a lovely afternoon bicycling around the renaissance-era walls of the beautiful northern Tuscan city of Lucca. It is from the plains surrounding the picturesque city that these speckled...

(P. vulgaris) The climate of Brittany on France’s Atlantic coast is not so dissimilar from our Pacific Northwest with its wet shoulder seasons and cool summers, so when we heard there was a regionally famous white bean, (with its own AOC protection of origin status) we thought it was worth...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom*(P. vulgaris) An heirloom from the Coupeville area of Central Whidbey Island in WA, it is named after the late 1800’s pioneer Elisha Rockwell who brought it to the area. Though it never became a commercial crop, the bean has remained popular in homestead gardens for well...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* (P. vulgaris) A family heirloom from one of the six original members of the Seed Savers Exchange (now the largest public participation heirloom seed organization in the world). These beans are said to have been brought by Lina’s grandmother to Missouri by covered wagon in the...

(P. vulagaris) Why is no one planting these beans?! Now, we cannot make you, but you will be happy if you sow these and then eat them. Promise! Also, we will be happy, and spreading happiness is always a win...♥ In a brief mention of this charming variety, buried within...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* (P. vulgaris) During the 1999 World Trade Organization Meeting’s “Battle in Seattle,” while protests and chaos reigned in the streets, inside the proceedings, Italian Agricultural Minister Paolo de Castro stood up and waved a bag of beans in the faces of the assembled neoliberal bureaucrats. The...

(P. vulgaris) An old English heirloom variety brought to Canada in the 1920s, they are said to be named after the Ireland Creek Farm in BC where they’ve been grown since the ’30s. Cool-season tolerant and very early maturing, they bear long pods on heavily laden bush plants. A VERY...

(P. vulgaris) Also known as Marafax, or Marifax, This beloved New England bean has a long but difficult-to-track history, said by some to have been introduced by the federal government to “Downeast” Maine during the Depression. Medium-sized, round, buff-brown beans are rich in flavor and very well adapted to cool...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* (P. vulgaris) A legendary northeast variety that has been shown for centuries to thrive in tough northern climates. Local stories claim this Prince Edward Island heirloom to have been a gift from the Passamaquoddy tribe to Joseph Clark, the first white child born in Lubec, ME....

*Ark of Taste Heirloom*(P. vulgaris) Every Ash Wednesday, about 100k NW of Rome in the town of Gradoli, the townspeople gather for the Pranzo del Purgatorio or ‘Purgatory Lunch’ organized by the Confraternità del Purgatorio, a truly humble meal of fish, wine, and white beans cooked with salt, pepper, and...

(P. vulgaris) As far as beans go, yellow eyes are about as quintessentially Maine as lobstah & wild blueberries. The plump, creamy white beans sport a molasses-yellow mark around the hilum and are the business for authentic New England-style baked beans. Kenearly is the variety of choice amongst a couple...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* (P. vulgaris) Once believed to have been brought over from Ukraine by the Hutterites, a Christian sect, in the mid-1800s, this bean is now thought by some to be a selection from the China Yellow bean, widely grown since the early 1800s. Among the best for...

(P. vulgaris) This medium-sized beige bush bean comes from the town of Quarto d’Altino, about halfway between Venice and Treviso, where it is traditionally used for soups and pasta e fagioli. A gift from our friends Leila and Chandler of Hayshaker Farm, it seemed very much at home in our...

(P. vulgaris) 'Biruma', or 'Burma Beans' are a very small dry bean grown as a regional food in Hokkaido, presumably from Burmese origins. About the size of an adzuki bean it is well suited for soups and stews. It keeps its shape well and maintains a firm texture even with...