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LAST CALL FOR BOX 5: SOYBEANS AND PEANUTS
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…
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Sweet Bean Box would be great for holiday parties!
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…
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Bean Box 5 – Peanuts and Soybeans – closes in 1 week!
I am turning off orders for Bean Box 5 in 1 week! It contains: The bean letter where I discuss my experience working at a tofu factory and a defense of boiled peanuts. It also has a defense of avoiding stoop labor Raw in shell peanuts 🥜 Cacahuetes japonés – Japanese peanut crackers Roasted soybeans…
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Box 5 will end in 2 weeks or sooner!
Hello! I have around 35 more Box 5 Soybeans and Peanuts I can send! If you want one I suggest you get it! Either I run out or in 2 weeks stop to prep for the final Box 6!
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Hey! Come buy these beans!
There is no better education and experience of a crucial plant family than these boxes. If you’ve ever thought you were interested in ethno or economic botany this is it. Bean Box 5 isn’t selling as fast as I hoped and sales of the Sweet Bean Box have stalled some. I literally need to make…
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Raising crops, many of them bean family, to feed beef cattle is wrong
I am revising Bean Letter 5. I just heard some mealy mouthed defense of beef farming on NPR and realized I’d done a similar equivocation and I apologize for my cowardice. Raising crops, many of them bean family, to feed beef cattle is wrong and I should have said it plainly. The scale of alfalfa…
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Box 5: soybeans and peanuts going well and stock update !
Bean Box 5 has had a good launch last week. I’m shipping out the first tranche of orders today. – 1/2 pound of raw in shell peanuts to make boiled peanuts (or roasted if you’re a coward) -1/2 pound of cacahuates japonés aka peanut crackers, if you’ve never had these they’re really good -3 packs…
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Box 5: soybeans and peanuts Launches Tomorrow! Box 4 bean letter part 5
TEPARY Phaseolus acutifolius Which brings us to the final bean in this box, and another bean that we must absolutely support increased use and harvest of: Tepary. Native to the US Southwest through to Central America, Tepary is related to the common bean, runner beans, and lima beans, this one is even more adapted to arid dry farming. I source these from…
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Bean Box 5 Launches Thursday! Here is Bean Box 4 Letter Part 4: carob mesquite and tamarind
There is tamarind candy available in the sweet bean box now. The carob and mesquite has had a strong response from people, I still have some if anyone is interested in more just let me know. If you’re in Mastodon, Louisa from No Substitutions, Please recently made some carob cookies. And here is David Lebovitz…
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The Common Bean and Today
In the most recent Bean Box I sent Tepary, Phaseolus acutifolius, sourced from the Indigenous farming project: Ramona Farms. https://ramonafarms.com/ . In the first box I sent P vulgaris, which is the common bean we all know, from green beans to pintos and cannellini and more. In the next box I’m sending Lima Beans, P lunatus, and Runner Beans, P coccineus. In…