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  • June 03, 2024 1 min read

     Delicious heirloom Arikara Yellow Beans take this refreshing summer bean salad over the top. Fresh dill and feta cheese balance with red onion and tomatoes for an easy lunch or side dish everyone will love.

    About Arikara Yellow Beans

    The Arikara Yellow heirloom bean is creamy and very flavorful with a hard shell that holds its shape when cooked. They have an unsurpassed flavor that keeps us coming back again and again. This Slow Foods Ark of Taste ingredient has a long cultural history. First documented by Lewis and Clark, these indigenous beans were once the primary food source for American Indian tribes in the Missouri Valley. Thomas Jefferson grew the Arikara Yellow Beans in his own garden at Monticello. There he described it as “one of the most excellent we have had.” Unfortunately after being moved to the Fort Berthold reservation near Bismarck, North Dakota, the Arikara tribe has relatively little land to farm and their beloved yellow bean nearly went extinct. Thankfully seed savers and small scale farmers have saved the Arikara Yellow and a handful of commercial farms are growing it although very few of them are certified organic. We don't know if its the soil, the beans or the love that Blue House Farm puts into growing these gems but they are truly something special.

     

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