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Heirloom Dry Bean Variety Trial
Darby, Heather Cummings, Erica Calderwood, Lily Gupta, Abha Post, Julian Ziegler, Sara
Darby, Heather
Cummings, Erica
Calderwood, Lily
Gupta, Abha
Post, Julian
Ziegler, Sara
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Dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), a high-protein pulse crop, have been grown in the Northeast since the 1800’s. As the local food movement continues to diversify and expand, consumers are asking stores to carry more and more locally-produced foods, and dry beans are no exception. Currently, the demand for heirloom dry beans has far exceeded the supply. In an effort to support and expend the local bean market throughout the northeast, the University of Vermont Extension Northwest Crops and Soils (NWCS) Program, as part of a USDA NE-SARE Partnership Grant (PG15-045), established trials in 2015 to evaluated heirloom dry bean varieties under organic management to see which ones thrive in our northern climate. The trials were established at the Borderview Research Farm in Alburgh, VT and at our partner farm, Morningstar Meadows farm in Glover, VT.
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2015-01-01