FREE: Southwest Bean Fest #2 - Rare! Drought Tolerant! (10 each)

The listing, Southwest Bean Fest #2 - Rare! Drought Tolerant! (10 each) has ended.

Another 4 kinds of Rare Heirloom Beans from the Southwest - selected for drought and heat tolerance. In the Southwest, they are traditionally dry-farmed - planted in time to take advantage of the summer monsoon rains, but not otherwise watered

* Flor de Rio - Flor de Mayo type bean originally collected in Donato Guerra, Durango. Traditionally dry-farmed. Lavender-pink bean with white specks.

* Hopi Black Pinto - Striking black and white/beige pinto. Dry farmed in Hopi fields of northeastern Arizona. Early-maturing bushy-pole beans with colorful mottled pods. Produces white or lavendar flowers. High-yielding!

* Yoeme Purple String - A prolific bean that can be eaten green or as shelled. Seeds are purple on beige. Plants are heat tolerant. Vigorous pole bean with white flowers

* Pinacate tepary beans - These beans are tan and slightly mottled. Originally obtained from the most arid runoff farm in Mexico, in the Sierra El Pinacate Protected Zone. They have been known to produce a crop from a single storm runoff. Extremely drought tolerant.

I purchased these beans from Native Seed Search (because I want to try them in our hot, dry California summers) and got enough that I can share a few batches here on Listia. The pictures and descriptions are from the NSS catalog. Please note: the actual beans are not quite as spectacularly beautiful as the photos - I think they must have taken their photos when the beans were newly-shelled. Still, they are fabulous varieties, and I can hardly wait to grow them!

The lucky winner will receive a total of 40 beans!