Snap beans, also called “green beans” or “string beans” (although most modern varieties do not have strings) are harvested when the pods contain immature seeds, and the pods are still succulent. Types ...

Just like growing your own food, saving your own seed is another great way to ensure you are in control of your own food ...

Dry beans and peas are a healthy staple crop that can be stored long into winter. With a huge variety of colorful pods and seed shapes and colors, it’s almost impossible to grow every kind of bean and ...

This video is about growing edamame beans at home. Edamame is soybean and just like any bean, it can be grown in the backyard ...

The sign on the bushel baskets read, "Bean seeds for children to play with," the baskets half-filled with dry beans of many colors. They'd been placed on the ground in the Fedco Seeds booth at the ...

Yesterday, I complained of my lameness when it comes to starting seeds. I should have talked to Josh Kirschenbaum first. As product development guy at for a little more than 10 years (which sounds ...

I recently had the opportunity to speak to about 250 first- and second-graders about the topic of garden seeds. This (very well-behaved) group was quite intelligent. They asked some great questions, ...

Be a part of history and save money when planting next year’s garden.  Collect and save the seeds from your favorite heirloom tomatoes, peppers, beans and peas this fall.

When farmers ask Matt Duesterhaus whether they can reduce soybean planting populations and still produce high yields, his brief answer is it depends on the specific cards in their hand. “Some of those ...

Left: The author's Granny Ruby Haynes Caudill, 97, was a postmistress and seamstress. She passed on the bean seed and the stories that went with them. Right: Katharine Campbell Haynes and William ...