BEAN YEAR

Because of my work and writing here with the Bean Project, I had an opportunity to submit some other writing to Gavin and Kelly at Small Beer Press for their publication LCRW. Here: https://smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2025/10/16/lady-churchills-rosebud-wristlet-no-51/ One, Spring before you have to turn the fans on, is a 2 of 4 part piece about a hypothetical near…

Soybean Soya – Glycine max Everything I said in the intro is a fanciful lie. The real reason I dropped out of graduate school to go work at a tofu factory in Northern California is that I found a copy of The Book of Tofu by William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi at a thrift store in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  I do not know…

The inception point for this project was when a friend said that restrictive New Year’s resolutions are bad, and that permissive resolutions are good. So I gave myself permission to say yes to beans, all the forms of the Fabaceae family.  The rule is simple: If there is an option to experience or learn about a bean…

Peanuts – Arachis hypogaea Impress people at a party: Peanuts have cleistogamous flowers. Which means they have flowers that never open and are self fertile. It is their cleistogamous flowers underground , another fun word: geocarpy, that produce the pea-nut that we eat.  Peanuts are incredibly common and industrially grown around the planet. Originating in South America, after the Great Exchange (a term related to “Columbian Exchange” that de-centers…

BEAN YEAR BOX 5 BEAN LETTER – Peanuts and Soybean Perhaps people walk west to walk away from the progression of time, as the sun and moon take their turns we go away from that change to keep the present. I’ve long been obsessed with different time keeping. The French Republican Calendar which used decimal…

I am shipping the first tranche of orders, which is also half of all possible orders, Saturday. They’re all packed up so if you want these for Christmas , new years, or another holiday I will try to ship them promptly. Of course I use USPS flat rate from the Portland Oregon Area. Link to…

Sweet Bean Box is Re-Stocked! This batch will be the last with the peanut forward peanut brittle, after this I’m moving to Boston Baked Beans or French Burnt Beans https://beanyear.com/product/sweet-bean-box/

https://beanyear.com/product/bean-box-6-vigna-and-runner-and-lima/ Crowder southern peasRed Bean Paste Moon CakeUrad Dal /Black GramLima Butter BeansRunner Beans “Gigante”Bean Letter 6

And only 3 more sweet snack boxes until I get more amanatto! Woah! A lot of sweet bean boxes sold, if you want one for a holiday party get it now, only 3 left. Box 5 also had a strong week and I am closing orders for it Thanksgiving morning when I wake up. Get…

The Sweet Bean Box is designed for snacking! On your seasonal charcuterie boards imagine the scene: Fancy hard cheese next to peanuty peanut brittle A slightly spicy kimchi next to a decoratively arranged flower of pulparindo, slightly spicy tamarind paste Fancy almonds mixed with the pastel candied chickpeas Rich fatty cured meat alongside the sweet…