Are They Lima Beans or Butterbeans?
Are they Lima beans or butterbeans? In the United States, we primarily refer to the bean as a Lima or a butterbean. But it’s always up for debate! One thing is for sure, these aren’t the frozen green lima beans that you grew up with, rather they are the dry white beans with an almost […]
Meet Allie & Dan of Love and Risotto!
Newlyweds Allie and Dan love to relax after work by creating and cooking delicious dishes together and sharing them on their blog Love and Risotto. Allie is a farmer’s daughter. In fact, she’s a BEAN farmer’s daughter! Her dad, Dave Richter grows beans in Knights Landing in Yolo County. Dave also serves on the California […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Serena Ball!
Serena Ball, co-creator of the website The Recipe ReDux, a registered dietitian and health blogger community, likes the new and trendy way to use the bean brine from garbanzos called aguafaba. Cooking with aguafaba is about the most fun she has had in the kitchen in a long time! (For more info on aguafaba read […]
UC Davis Dry Bean Field Day
It’s that time of year again! UC Davis Dry Bean Field Day Thursday, August 20, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. until noon at the UC Davis Agronomy Farm. Join Paul Gepts’s “Bean Team” and their collaborators for a tour of their common bean and lima bean field projects at the UC Davis Agronomy Field Headquarters […]
February is for your heart health and beans!
When I think of February, I always think of hearts. Valentine’s Day is a big part of that, of course, but I also think of heart disease awareness and the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign. Heart disease isn’t just a man’s disease. Did you know that 1 in 3 women die from […]
Meet our student ambassador Mikaela Tosta
California Beans newest “bean team” member is student ambassador, Mikaela Tosta of Newman, California. She is an Animal Science major at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in California. Besides being a full time student Mikaela works as the swine unit manager and also in the beef unit. She is active in several clubs at Cal […]
Philosopher Bean Farmer, Introducing Jack Escobar!
Even though I knew his great-grandfather, grandfather and father I had never met Jack Escobar. I had moved away from the area by the time Jack came along. I recently had the pleasure of meeting this engaging, handsome young farmer. He comes from a farming family rooted in the small town of Crows Landing in […]
A lifetime of promoting Lima Beans and Agriculture
Mama G is fondly known in the Westley area for her big heart, her dedication to agriculture, her community and her delicious Ellery Beans. Gloria Gordon Ellery was born in Patterson, California, the granddaughter of Swedish immigrants who moved to the Patterson Colony in 1914. In 1956 she graduated high school and promptly married […]