A Day on the Farm - Beans & Amaranth

We had great success with beans this year. We planted three heirloom varieties; Contender (an excellent green bush-type), Molly Frazier's Cut Short (a pole bean for drying), and Elvie (a bush bean that also dries well). I'll try to post pictures of the dried beans later.

We also had good success with Amaranth, which we did not plant, but voluntarily came up from last year. I had planed on harvesting the grains and making flour from it last year, but the flood prevented that from happening. This year, we have been so busy harvesting and storing other crops, that I decided to just cut it and give it to the chickens. I gave them a little of it and dried the rest to feed them during the winter. It might help a little with the organic feed bill!

Peace