The Turkey Craw Bean produces 4-6" pods that are delicious when young, green, and snappy. When used as a dry bean, they are sweet, rich, buttery, and meaty in taste and texture. The seeds are a beautiful frosted brown and tan. The vines are often grown in cornfields. The story goes: this seed was found in the craw of a turkey brought home by a hunter in the 1800s. Many report he was an enslaved African American man. Please share more info about his story if you have it! This bean has been designated by Slow Food as an outstandingly tasty, culturally important, and endangered heirloom from Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and is listed in their Ark of Taste as a way to invite everyone to take action to help protect it. Available very soon at Truelove Seeds, and grown as a collaboration between Bear Bottom Farm (@wileymo) and Chelsea Askew (@chelskew) in Virginia and North Carolina. #turkeycrawbeans #phaseolusvulgaris #heirloombeans (at Bear Bottom Farm)
