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Beans, Fava Sweet Lorane

$5.25

Heirloom, Organic, Non-GMO, Open-Pollinated Sweet Lorane Fava Bean Seeds

Days to Maturity: 65-100

Annual, Sun: Full-Partial, Direct Sow: When soil is workable, Mature plant Size: 30"-36"

An ancient bean (6000 BC), the Sweet Lorane is a small seeded fava bean with a big delicious taste. Selected by us for its great flavor. Favas are wonderful cover crops and this one is also excellent for your culinary adventures. Has a superb flavor when eaten fresh. It is also a very good dry bean for soups, stews and your canning recipes. Very cold hardy, down to 10 degrees F.

The beans are a very healthy edible crop but they also bring lovely white flowers with slight black and purple centers that bees love. The beans are high in protein (26% in mature beans), and contain many essential nutrients. For example, 100g of mature beans provides 106% of the daily value for folate.

Fava beans are also moderately rich in other B vitamins and contain dietary minerals such as manganese, phosphorus, iron and magnesium.

The young beans can be eaten fresh, raw in small quantities, or cooked. The mature seeds can also be dried and stored for use throughout the whole year. So this is a crop that can make it easier to grow and eat your own food year round.

The mature seeds can also be ground to make flour, popped, salted and eaten as a snack, or roasted like peanuts. Amazing, right?!

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Beans, Fava Sweet Lorane

$5.25

Heirloom, Organic, Non-GMO, Open-Pollinated Sweet Lorane Fava Bean Seeds

Days to Maturity: 65-100

Annual, Sun: Full-Partial, Direct Sow: When soil is workable, Mature plant Size: 30"-36"

An ancient bean (6000 BC), the Sweet Lorane is a small seeded fava bean with a big delicious taste. Selected by us for its great flavor. Favas are wonderful cover crops and this one is also excellent for your culinary adventures. Has a superb flavor when eaten fresh. It is also a very good dry bean for soups, stews and your canning recipes. Very cold hardy, down to 10 degrees F.

The beans are a very healthy edible crop but they also bring lovely white flowers with slight black and purple centers that bees love. The beans are high in protein (26% in mature beans), and contain many essential nutrients. For example, 100g of mature beans provides 106% of the daily value for folate.

Fava beans are also moderately rich in other B vitamins and contain dietary minerals such as manganese, phosphorus, iron and magnesium.

The young beans can be eaten fresh, raw in small quantities, or cooked. The mature seeds can also be dried and stored for use throughout the whole year. So this is a crop that can make it easier to grow and eat your own food year round.

The mature seeds can also be ground to make flour, popped, salted and eaten as a snack, or roasted like peanuts. Amazing, right?!

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Sowing:

Direct sow 1-2″ deep mid-September to late October, or February to March for spring sowings. Plant 4-6″ apart in rows spaced 1′ apart. Favas do well in cooler weather. We’ve had ours that continue to bloom despite cold snaps!

Eat fresh or harvest seed from pods that are fully dry. Fava beans do tend to cross-pollinate with other beans so be sure to isolate them from other varieties by a minimum of a ¼ mile if you want to guarantee seed purity.

Caution:

Some people are allergic to favas! Though fava beans are commonly eaten around the world, they can cause the disease Favism in certain susceptible people. (Even inhaling the pollen can cause this problem for some people.) Favism is a severe haemolytic anaemia which is caused by a person’s inherited enzymatic deficiency.

Companions:

Good companion plants for Sweet Lorane Fava beans include (but are not limited to): potatoes, brassicas, spinach, lettuce and other leafy greens, marigolds, rosemary, peppermint and other aromatic herbs