Legumes with a surprise
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Halcyon Farms in Arroyo Grande grows all types of legumes.
Fr. Ian Delinger
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Green Beans are the most common of fresh beans, the type that gets eaten straight from the plant, whether as the whole pod, or shelled, like peas.
Fr. Ian Delinger
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Halcyon Farms plants green beans every 4 to 6 six weeks, ensuring green beans all year round.
Fr. Ian Delinger
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Halcyon Farms also grown beans that are sold as dried beans. They dry on the plant in the field.
Fr. Ian Delinger
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For dried beans, they will develop the legume on in the pod and then dry out as the plant dies. They are then harvested, already dried.
Fr. Ian Delinger
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Dried beans are varieties that don't taste good fresh. They need to be dried to develop the sugars and starches.
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These may look like lima beans, but they are actually the plants of jicama!
Fr. Ian Delinger
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Legumes develop flowers like pea plants. For jicama, everything above the ground is poisonous to humans.
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Jicama is the root of the bean plant. It is not the legume. The legume is the inedible bean part above ground.
Fr. Ian Delinger
