#borlottobeans

[seedkeeping]

Borlotto Beans are sprouting, and looking bold and handsome and confident and hopeful. It’s not too late to order and plant beans! I learned about this variety from my friend @rbsayet’s great uncle Harold Tantaquidgeon’s Mohegan Succotash recipe, which was published in Melissa (Fawcett) Tantaquidgeon’s book “The Lasting of the Mohegans”. Turns out their family would buy these beans from their Southern Italian neighbors, who moved to southern Connecticut to work in the textile mills, just like my ancestors from Southern Italy. It’s a beautiful and delicious shelly or dry bush bean. #borlottobeans #mohegansuccotash #italianbeans

[ukallotmental-blog]

😍 late night gardening - the runner and borlotto beans are in the ground. What a lovely way to spend the evening after work together. #allotmentlife #allotmentlove #allotmentplot #mymonthontheplot #runnerbeans #borlottobeans #growingfromseed #organicgardening #organicvegetables #urbanallotment #urbangardenersrepublic #sunset #goldenlight #nofilter (at Beeston, Nottinghamshire)

[ukallotmental-blog]

Our Borlotto beans germinated really quickly and I potted them on yesterday. Only 7 out of 12 sown but they look really healthy. What do you think @allotment_25 👩🏻‍🌾. . . . #allotment #allotmentlife #pottingon #gyo #growingvegetables #growingfromseed #borlottobeans (at Beeston, Nottinghamshire)

[seedkeeping]

Today was a bean day. 1. Potawatomi Pole Lima (Phaseolus lanatus), a beautiful and prolific lima from the Potawatomi Nation in Wisconson. 2. Fagiolina del Trasimeno (Vigna unguiculata) is an endangered Italian cowpea from the hills around Lake Trasimeno in Umbria, and is now protected by Slow Food Italy. 3. Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco (Phaseolus vulgaris) is another Italian heirloom that I learned about in a recipe for Succotash that @rbsayet sent me from her great great uncle Harold Tantaquidgeon, who was a Mohegan chief. This Native American species (P. vulgaris) of bean was adopted and adapted by Italians and then again adopted for use in this Mohegan recipe. As an Italian who grew up on Mohegan land, I'm excited to care for this bean as well. Thanks to William Woys Weaver and @roughwoodseeds for introducing me to the first two beans! #legumes #borlottobeans #borlotto #bolottolinguadifuoco #phaseolusvulgaris #phaseoluslunatus #vignaunguiculata #fagiolinadeltrasimeno #cowpeas #blackeyedpeas #commonbean #heirloombeans #potawatomipolelima (at Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)