Beans
We offer eleven different varieties of beans. If quantities are limited we sell them as a mix otherwise they are sold by variety.
Blauhilde
This heirloom from Germany has pods that stay tender and stringless, even at 10 inches long!
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Given to SSE in 1977 by the late Dr. John Wyche, SSE member from Hugo, Oklahoma. Dr. Wyche’s Cherokee ancestors carried this bean over the Trail of Tears, the infamous winter death march from the Smoky Mountains to Oklahoma
(1838-1839), leaving a trail of 4,000 graves.
Green 6" pods with purple overlay, shiny jet-black seeds. Good for snap beans and dry beans.
(1838-1839), leaving a trail of 4,000 graves.
Green 6" pods with purple overlay, shiny jet-black seeds. Good for snap beans and dry beans.
Gold Marie
The gorgeous pods are ideal when harvested at 6-8 inches, but are often tender at much larger dimensions! The massive pods are a bright, clear buttercup yellow, flat and sometimes almost resemble a loose spiral shape
Greasy Grits
A popular old Appalachian and Mountain folk heirloom that used to be common in much of the Midwest and South, but now is very rare. It gets the name because its pods are smoother and shinier than other beans, giving it a “greasy” appearance. Pods are harvested small and used like other green beans, or you can allow to dry for a brown soup bean that is easy to shell.
Kentucky Wonder
This homesteaders’ heirloom was first mentioned in The Country Gentleman magazine in 1864 under the name of Texas Pole. It was not until 1877 that it was introduced as Kentucky Wonder by James J.H. Gregory & Sons and has been popular ever since. It is a pole bean with 6”- 8” green pods that are very tender when cooked and have a great flavor.
Lazy Housewife
Introduced around 1810, this is one of our oldest documented beans. Named Lazy Housewife because it was the first snap bean that did not need to have the string removed.
Straight 5-6" long pods with distinctive shiny white seeds. Snap or shell.
Straight 5-6" long pods with distinctive shiny white seeds. Snap or shell.
McCaslan 42
The dark-green pods are stringless and full of flavor. The white seeds are also great for a dry bean.
Purple Podded Pole
Heirloom variety discovered by Henry Fields in an Ozark garden in the 1930s.
High quality, meaty, stringless 5-7" reddish-purple pods that blanch to light green.
High quality, meaty, stringless 5-7" reddish-purple pods that blanch to light green.
Red Stick Bean
Richly flavored, 5-6 in. pods, can be eaten fresh, as shelly beans, or dried. Cook long and slow for best quality
Red Swan
Uniquely colored bean, nearly a true red shade on the thick, flavorful pods.
Streamline
Pods can reach 18 inches in length and are fine for freezing. Seeds can also be used as shell beans or when dried.
Hopefully this will be the year we have corn to sell in the fall!
Strawberry Popcorn
The popular, cute, little ears of corn look just like big strawberries, just 2”-3” long. Great for fall decorations or making delicious popcorn.
