Ancestral Puebloan Beans

Phaseolus acutifolius Days to Maturity: 75-85 Tepary beans are one of our all-time favorite seeds! Tepary beans are incredibly drought tolerant, having been selected from beans surviving in the desert with only monsoon rains. Their leaves are more pointy than...

Phaseolus vulgaris Days to Maturity: 90 These delightful semi-climbing heirloom beans grew well interplanted with our corn. Colorado River Beans can also be grown on their own with or without staking. Also called Mayflower or Amish Knuttle. Eat green when...

Phaseolus vulgaris Days to Maturity: 70-90 This colorful mixture of climbing beans will delight any gardener. A mixture of Cherokee Cornfield Pole Beans, Hopi Purple String Beans, Rattlesnake Beans, King Banquet Beans, Pueblo Pink Beans, Iroquois Skunk Beans and more....

Phaseolus coccineus Scarlet Runner Beans are big climbers with large pods and gigantic beans! Their vines are decorated with striking bright scarlet flowers that attract hummingbirds, hummingbird moths and bees. This Colorado-adapted landrace is drought tolerant and so easy to...

Vicia faba Days to Maturity: 80-100 Favas are a great cool-weather bean that can handle light to moderate frost and even overwinters in some climates! Young Fava seeds can be eaten raw and dried beans can be shelled and eaten...