The farm and all the products that it produces are certified organic by the Kootenay
Local Agricultural Society under the Kootenay Mountain Grown program.
For more details on this please go to:
www.klasociety.org
www.kootenaymountaingrown.org
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Imperial Green Longpod
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Green seeded pods 15 in+ with up to nine large beans. It is succulent, tasty and
suitable for freezing. Height: 3½-4 ft. Grown and Selected for 5 years.
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$3.95
20 seeds
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Masterpiece Green Longpod
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A very good flavoured broad bean, with good pod length and remarkable table qualities.
It may well be the best green-seeded variety, excellent for deep freezing and growing
well under all conditions. Height: 30-36 in. Grown and Grown and Selected for 6 years.
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$3.95
20 seeds
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Meteor
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This is the fastest maturing variety of any broad bean and an early spring sowing
will out yield all others. This Broad Bean produces up to 34 good pods per plant!
It is also winter hardy, outstanding for deep freeze as it does not discolour and
probably for the same reason is particularly tender and tasty. Selected for 4 years.
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$3.95
20 seeds
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Sutton
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An excellent dwarf variety only 12 in high that produces lots of 5-6 in pods each
bearing five small, but deliciously tender beans. It is very suitable for successional
sowings commencing late autumn (in a greenhouse) or late winter/early summer in the
open. Ideal for the small garden. Selected for 5 years.
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$3.95
20 seeds
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Scorpio
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High yielding white flowered variety with clusters of 4-5 pods which grow facing
outwards helping to make harvests easier. Pods hold approx. 4-5 succulent, sweet,
small white beans, with an excellent texture and flavour. Height: approx. 4 ft tall
. Selected for 4 years.
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$3.95
20 seeds
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One of the most cold-hardy home garden vegetables -- and just about the first seeds
to be planted outdoors on our farm-- is the broad, or fava bean. One of the oldest
cultivated plants, the broad bean is thought to originate in the Mediterranean region.
Broad beans were grown widely in Europe during prehistoric times, and they were well
known to the Egyptians and Romans.
When one thinks of beans it's natural to think cold-tender and warmth-loving, since
the most commonly grown home garden beans -- snap and runner beans -- are tender
perennial South American natives that need a well-warmed soil to germinate properly
and abundant amounts of sunlight and warmth to produce well. These aren't planted
until May or even early June.
The broad bean presents an entirely different story. Not a true bean at all, it's
actually a giant vetch (Vicia faba), a cool-season legume like the pea, and the hardiest
legume we grow. Depending upon the variety the upright, stout-stemmed plants grow
up to five feet (150 cm) tall with dark purple-spotted white flowers followed by
pods borne singly or in clusters in the leaf axils.
We always grow a few short rows of broad beans,at the very least, enough for enjoying
fresh at several early summer meals and for freezing a half-dozen or so small packets
for winter. On occaison we planrt a whole sea of the plants. One spring, standing
in the field beside an immense planting in full flower, I discovered a whole new,
lovely aspect of the broad bean -- the sweet fragrance of the blooms, not noticeable
in my few plants but abundantly evident in this large planting.
