2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

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Welcome @heartsong111! Don't those blue beans just steal your heart!? 💙 Have you grown Sacre Blue? I think that is my favorite blue bean. Blue & White of Bernardo is closely tied with it though.
I have not yet tried that one. I just bought some Rosa's Beans from Small House Farm. Though, it looks like they can be quite dark when fully ready.
 

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I thought this was the cutest little thing. A seed saving friend did an online course where they learned to use some Suno program for making AI generated songs, I have no idea how this works, I've never even dialed a cell phone, but I think she just plugged in a couple key words, selected a few themes and made up this song for me & my seed ark website and the beans! Couple of the AI lyrics are off, but for the most part I thought this was pretty neat! If you think of 'my life' as an extension of my seed ark....

 

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I have not yet tried that one. I just bought some Rosa's Beans from Small House Farm. Though, it looks like they can be quite dark when fully ready.
I've grown that one too! lol Can you tell I like blue beans? It is definitely blue when young and not quite dried. It's really productive variety, and a nice perk is it's a snap bean. Most blue beans are for dry use.
 

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Pretty awesome @Blue-Jay ! 45 years 🥳 And I grew both of those this summer!
Thank you heirloomgal. It's a pretty neat feeling when I accidentally come across a small seed company selling maybe one or two of my original beans. Sometimes someone from maybe in Europe and the person doesn't know me will post a bean on Facebook of what they grew the past season. It will be one of my named beans again. To see a bean I discovered in my garden that I thought something of and then to see that it is indeed being enjoyed by others is a nice experience. I hope that you will have that happen for you one day.
 

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I thought this was the cutest little thing. A seed saving friend did an online course where they learned to use some Suno program for making AI generated songs, I have no idea how this works, I've never even dialed a cell phone, but I think she just plugged in a couple key words, selected a few themes and made up this song for me & my seed ark website and the beans! Couple of the AI lyrics are off, but for the most part I thought this was pretty neat! If you think of 'my life' as an extension of my seed ark....

What a catchy tune… I really liked that serenade about beans and the gardeners that save and grow them.
 

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I thought this was the cutest little thing. A seed saving friend did an online course where they learned to use some Suno program for making AI generated songs, I have no idea how this works, I've never even dialed a cell phone, but I think she just plugged in a couple key words, selected a few themes and made up this song for me & my seed ark website and the beans! Couple of the AI lyrics are off, but for the most part I thought this was pretty neat! If you think of 'my life' as an extension of my seed ark....

I'm jealous I want a song LOL ! Really actually that is really neat. I loved the song, catchy and lyrics I thought are brilliant.
 
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It's amazing what that program can do! She told me it's easy to get lost in there having fun making songs. She's really into Jerusalem artichokes and she made a really cute one about them and her own website, Garden Faerie Seeds. Haha, not easy to have a song lyric with 'Jerusalem artichokes' in it, but AI managed to do it - it sings a bit faster for those words! The modern world, what a place!
 

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Ok @Blue-Jay DD & I had a blast trying to figure out how this thing works so we could make you a song. We had no idea how this program functions, I thought the prompts were suggestions not actual lyrics, and I picked a few words that didn't fit real good (you'll see I hijacked some words from you as well!!), and I guess you have to build a chorus yourself (didn't know that) so it's short. Not as easy to build a song as it seems! But AI took our scrap material and made something not too bad -- so now you can say you have a song! We called it 'Bean Fever'....


 
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Ok @Blue-Jay DD & I had a blast trying to figure out how this thing works so we could make you a song. We had no idea how this program functions, I thought the prompts were suggestions not actual lyrics, and I picked a few words that didn't fit real good (you'll see I hijacked some words from you as well!!), and I guess you have to build a chorus yourself (didn't know that) so it's short. Not as easy to build a song as it seems! But AI took our scrap material and made something not too bad -- so now you can say you have a song! We called it 'Bean Fever'....
I listened to it today.Thank you very much for that. Pretty neat. Me and my Blue Jay bean (sweet child of the sun) are now in song. Wow ! who would have ever thought my Blue Jay bean would rise to these heights LOL !

I watched the Tutorial on YouTube last night and the guy puts lryics, Choruses, and a bridge to create his songs. When I got time I will try my hand at it.
 
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