This is most of my harvest of soup peas from a tiny 4' x 4' plot I planted this spring. I haven't eaten any yet, but I understand you eat them like chickpeas.

I threshed and winnowed them on this trashcan lid, it was quite easy to break up the pods and blow away the chaff. I could see doing it on a tarp would be a good method for a larger crop.

I was a dummy and planted two varieties of peas side by side (the brown ones are the soup peas, the white are actually green peas used for fresh eating) not realizing they would grow into a tangle of vines and have to be harvested together, and they probably hybridized so the next generation won't be entirely predictable. Oh well! If they're good eating, I'll buy new seeds for next year.
#GrowYourOwn #Gardening #drybeans

Hey there, fellow Mastodonians! In December I did an informal #JoinIn where I explained how to make Swedish #pepparkakor. Would anyone be interested if I were to do another one explaining how to #cook #DryBeans from scratch, possibly with a ham bone thrown in?

IMO, the skill of cooking and spicing up dry beans can help you get through hard times. It's important to eat well when money is tight, and knowing how to cook from scratch certainly helps make that easier.