2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[ruralmamma]

I came across the Roughwood Seed website.

Thank you for mentioning that site. I'm almost at my limit for new beans this year but never hurls to drool a bit. Glad @Blue-Jay will be able to help you.

 

[ruralmamma]

This Rio Zape is not the standard heirloom Rio Zape but was rebred by the University of California at Davis to be resistant to Mosaic virus. They also increased it's productivity by 20 per cent over it's heirloom parent. So I would like to see this one grown and to have an increase of it's seed.

I found a video by Travis Parker on YouTube discussing the UC Rio Zape and a few other varieties they are working on Not sure if inserting the video would be okay but I did find it very informative.

 

[flowerbug]

I found a video by Travis Parker on YouTube discussing the UC Rio Zape and a few other varieties they are working on Not sure if inserting the video would be okay but I did find it very informative.

your description was good enough so that no link was needed. thank you.

i'd be happy to grow all of them that are bush beans just to get those traits in my own beans. the more the merry...

i'd also be willing to grow them even if they are not bush beans since i can eventually get them to cross and then select further to get back to bush or semi-runner habit, but that takes more time and i'm getting older and also since i cannot do direct crosses myself and have to rely upon nature and chance that also adds more time to the process.

as for limit to new beans i know that feeling! i am hoping to eventually get a dedicate freezer set up so i don't have to worry about longevity and renewal so much and as a part of that i'll also transition to a less space consuming method of packaging compared to what i'm currently doing. i don't know when this will happen, but i can daydream.

 

[Artorius]

Hi Artorious !

I can order seed from Roughwood for you. The owner there is food historian and author William Woys Weaver. He orders from me from time to time. We exchange emails with each other. I'm even working on a little project of finding some bean varieties for the Roughwood collection. The beans that you sent that Guy Dirix acquired for me will wind up in my collection as well as the Roughwood collection. Let me know what you would like and I'll be very happy to get it for you.

When he gets that Sy Maa bean back in again I'm going to order that one. The seed stock I had of Joseph Simcox of Sy Maa apparently doesn't grow. I saw what a beautiful bean it was when I ran accross the bean on the Roughwood website.

Great! Thank you @Blue-Jay . I will send you a PM.

Your stock of Sy Maa seeds from Joseph Simcox will not grow because they were in a package that went missing last year. That is why I also noticed this bean, but it is currently out of stock.

 

[flowerbug]

March 3rd, Seed Swap at our local library is on (see other post in other forum for more details ).

 

[Blue-Jay]

@heirloomgal,

Finally today I thought it was a long time since you sent your package to the Linden, New Jersey inspection station. So I decided to call them. They tell me the area in the plant where they keep packages that are ready to be forwarded is empty. I'm suspecting that they have sent your package out sometime ago. They told me that your Canada Post tracking number should still be good to track a package here. So I'm going to go to my post office and see if they can find out what happened to your package. Hope they can find this package with your tracking number.

 

[Blue-Jay]

I found a video by Travis Parker on YouTube discussing the UC Rio Zape and a few other varieties they are working on Not sure if inserting the video would be okay but I did find it very informative.

You can insert the link to the video. I would like to see it and listen to it.

 

[Blue-Jay]

our stock of Sy Maa seeds from Joseph Simcox will not grow because they were in a package that went missing last year. That is why I also noticed this bean, but it is currently out of stock.

I looked up the Sy Ma bean on my freezer inventory list and I sent you the only packet that I had. What a shame I had tested a few other seeds of Sy Ma and they gave me 100% germination.

 

[Blue-Jay]

but that takes more time and i'm getting older.

Oh flowerbug I met you at the Central Michigan Seed Swap a little while back and you are so old. LOL. I just turned 79 this past December. Speaking of age. Seriously would anyone like to be put in my will and inherit a sample or maybe more of every single bean in my collection someday when I'm gone. I hope that gone date is way far ahead of me yet. I have my sights set on a 100. I would like to see the entire collection survive and be stewarded. I have one person in my will now but I would like to break up the entire volume of beans among mabye six or more growers.

 

[flowerbug]

Oh flowerbug I met you at the Central Michigan Seed Swap a little while back and you are so old. LOL. I just turned 79 this past December. Speaking of age. Seriously would anyone like to be put in my will and inherit a sample or maybe more of every single bean in my collection someday when I'm gone. I hope that gone date is way far ahead of me yet. I have my sights set on a 100. I would like to see the entire collection survive and be stewarded. I have one person in my will now but I would like to break up the entire volume of beans among mabye six or more growers.

i have been wondering what your plans are for longer term.

i would be glad and honored to have a sample of everything. i'd have to get a freezer and be in control of my own space better (i don't own the place i live in at the moment). i would not be able to do things at the scale you're doing but i would do my best to find new growers and to get them among people who want them.

i'm always thinking longer term even if i'm in the middle of short-term emergencies.

an actual heirloom bean foundation is something i would do if i inherited or won the lotto or something like that, but at the moment that's not too likely to happen based upon the fact that i don't play the lotto and most of my relatives are not likely to be giving me money.

my own funds are not too likely to ever be enough to fund a large organisation on the scale i'd like but i might be able to get some targetted goals accomplished eventually if genetic sequencing costs decline enough and i can find the right people to work with.

yes, i'm old! i don't feel too bad these days but i'm not on the younger side of the scale any longer.