Fabaceae

Fabaceae Family Food Home Gardening These things are not separated, but very much interconnected. Since the dawn of human civilization, the scant bean, the pea with its delicate tendrils, and delicate tiny pink petaled blooms, has fed & sustained humanity. Even long before the dawn of modern agriculture, some 12,000 years ago. For how many generations, my own included, have memories from childhood, of sitting around large pots with their mothers and grandmothers preparing the pods for dinner by snapping the stems off the ends, and tossing them into the pots where they would be boiled for hours. Often with some kind of fatty meat or bone for flavoring and added nu...View all