BEAN YEAR

Hi all, ok, well, I was all excited bc I had this box ordered early, we ran into a snag with the amanatto , in that we bought it all, … but the latest update is that my mesquite supplier finally has their bulk load of mesquite imported and are boxing it up for me…

I mentioned that we are big enough now that we bought out a distributors entire stock of amanatto from Japan Well guess what, Americas don’t consume enough Mesquite powder, so we don’t grow and processes much here, so the major importers I work with don’t import it often , and there’s this asshole in the…

Happy Solstice! We are beginning the second half of the year with sweet bean candies and beans from very dry places! Two bean trees even! Brian

BEAN YEAR BOX 4 Launches Tomorrow! It will be sweet bean snack: candied chickpeas and Japanese amanatto , a different sort of candied beans. And Desert Beans: 2 trees, Carob and Mesquite, and a rarer Phaseolus, Tepary *************** Fava – Vicia faba​ Fava beans are the original beans of Europe and the Mediterranean basin. If anyone before the…

Box 4 launches this Friday! Sweet bean snacks: amanatto and candied chickpeas, Desert Beans: carob, mesquite, and tepary Grass Peas ; Lathyrus sativus Which in turn brings us to a different wild pea, the grass pea, also known as the famine pea. In small quantities as part of a diverse diet this is a perfectly reasonable food, but during times of drought or societal disturbance…

BEAN YEAR BOX 4: Sweet bean snacks (amanatto, candied chickpeas) and Desert Beans (carob, mesquite, and tepary) launches this Friday 6/18 Welcome to BEAN YEAR Box 3 With each one of these boxes the weight of presenting, as honestly and straightforwardly as I can, each of these genus of Fabaceae grows. I don’t frankly feel qualified to…

There’s no such thing as leftover beans. Ok trying something different, I’ve upgraded the website and I’m unloading some bulk beans from the first half of BEAN YEAR in anticipation of launching Box 4 hopefully next week. 3 x 1 pound of beans , plus a generous portion of one of the herbs from the…

Welp, I sold out* over the weekend. I’ve just finished the letter today and I’ve got 5/6 of the beans packed. Excellent finish. *I’ve got a handful more I could do, just ask

Beanyear.com – orders close and shipping begins early May BEAN YEAR BOX 3 -Split green peas  -Fried green peas -Pigeon Peas – prepared as Toor Dal -Skinned Split Fava  -Roasted Fava -Cured Lupin – Lupini

Licorice, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Lets start with the heavy hitter, the root chewers favorite gnarled digestif.  It is odd where licorice turns up and often the candy and the plant are totally unrelated. I love black licorice. There’s a local sea salt company that makes excellent black licorice candy … that uses anise extract. My brother lives in Norway and recently…