Bean Week
And that was bean week. All in all, there are worse ways to spend your days!
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The Staple Food Revolution: Bringing Beans and Grains to Local Markets
After a couple of years as growers, Jaeger and Ajamian realized that they couldn’t build a local food system without a local processing facility, and they opened Shagbark in a former carpet warehouse in 2010. Now, they say that with each passing year at Shagbark, they find more and more reasons why local and regional processing facilities for staple foods are important.
Lentil Underground
Why grow lentils? 1) Two big reasons: fertilizer and water. 2) They can cope with a wide range of weather conditions. 3) They’re delicious.
Maize and bean farmers threatened by climate change
Over the coming decades, climate change is expected to pose major difficulties for one million maize and bean farmers in Central America.