Horticultural and Fava Beans

Fava Seeds and Horticultural Bean Seeds for sale. We offer Heirloom Fava Beans or Broad Beans for your organic sustainable living, self sufficient lifestyle needs. Beans are easy to grow and easily preserved by canning, freezing or drying. The home gardener should definitely have some in their garden. These Heirloom Beans can be used fresh or canned, frozen, or dried for later use. For fresh, frozen or canning beans: Harvest pods when beans have plumped up but are still soft. For shelled dried beans: Pods can be left on the plant until dry or you can harvest the pods and let them dry.  Be sure to plant beans at the proper time for your climate. Beans require soil temperatures to be at least 60 degrees  in order to germinate properly. Like most other seed, you can start beans in cell flats indoors to get an early start on your growing season. All seed come to you in paper packets with basic planting instuctions on the back. We grow, harvest, handle and package all our seeds ourselves.