Cannellini Bean: A Taste of Italy
The Mediterranean diet is highly touted as a way to live healthy and long. Beans are part of that diet and among them the white Cannellini bean is best known. You can buy Cannellini beans in the store in a can or dried. However, where the growing season permits, you...
Shuswap Red: Super Canadian Bean
Richard Hebda Small-seeded red beans are delicious! We have featured a couple of varieties in our crop-climate descriptions including Kashmir from India and the traditional Costa Rica Red variety. We introduce you to a highly productive small red bean developed and...
Dry Beans in Salmon Arm British Columbia: Six varieties for Hardiness zone 6b
Maureen and Paul Whitfield and Richard Hebda Bean trial beds of Maureen and Paul Whitfield, Salmon Arm British Columbia. Photo Maureen Whitfield. The Crop-Climate project gathers information on the success and failure of bean varieties in the different...
Hutterite Soup Bean: a high yielding heritage bean
Several communal religious settlements depend on raising their own food. Well known among these in North America are the Hutterites who have large communities in the prairies and plains of Canada and the US (https://hutterites.org/history/). Originally, from central...
Wiener-Treib: Saving Heritage Beans
Tina Davies of Emmerdale Eden farm introduced our Crop-Climate project to several early-maturing dry beans that grow successfully in Prince Edward Island...Potatoes In The News
Gardening and Climate Change
This video by professor and botanist Dr. Richard Hebda looks at ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change within your garden. He specifically focuses on water managed landscape techniques, techniques for preparing excellent soils, the advantages of diverse and dense plantings, and the (numerous) benefits of mulch!
For more great gardening resources: www.growingfood-together.com
How Peru’s potato museum could stave off world food crisis
Read the Guardian article here.
With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world, scientists have found hope in a living museum dedicated to a staple eaten by millions daily: the humble potato
This spud’s for you: A breeding revolution could unleash the potential of potato
Potatoes that are resilient in the face of climate change is more important forever. This article talks of some of the challenges of breeding and selecting climate-smart potatoes.
Unleashing the potential of the potato
News from the Blog
Starting with 2 potatoes, in two years, Scott Harris harvests 120 pounds!
Read about Scott's success growing Ozette-Nootka potatoes in Metchosin, BC.