Öland Swedish Brown bean
$4.00
(Phaseolus vulgaris)
Stout short bushes produce lots of small, plump, golden-brown seeds which taste wonderfully satisfying. This variety has been grown on the island of Öland, off the southeastern corner of Sweden, where bruna bönor have been being grown since the mid-1600s, and this type has been grown since at least 1885. Boarded on the Slow Food Foundation’s Ark of Taste, where they note that Öland actually has four varieties of these beans; unfortunately I do not know which one this is.
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Plant after last frost; soil must be warm or seed will rot. Sow bush beans 1” deep, 3” apart in rows 2′ apart. Pick dry beans when pods are fully dry; seed must be dry enough to not dent with a fingernail for storage. You can also cut whole plants and dry them that way. Dry beans can be further dried on a tarp, then threshed by treading on them and winnowing away the chaff.