Neckargold

Pole Wax. Plants produce 10 inch stingless yellow pods. My Seed donor is from Lincolshire, England 2019.

Nez Perce

Semi Runner Dry. Early maturing. Native American variety grown by the Nez Perce people. Easy shelling. Donated By Stephen Smith of Guthrie, Kentucky in 2016.

Nickell

Pole Snap. The earliest knows association of this variety is with the Nickell Family in Elliott County, Kentucky. Donated to me by my Potter Valley, California contact in 2013.

Nona Agnes

Pole Snap. A bean collected in a trade at the Midland, Michigan Seed Swap on February 23, 2020. Country of origin, Italy.

Norcino

Bush Snap. Another bean donated to me by Italian grower in Cortona, Italy in 2012.

Norridgewock

Pole Dry. Of Abenaki heritage. The bean probably goes back many centuries. Believed to have come from the Abenaki settlement in Norridgewock, Maine.

North Carolina

Pole Snap. My seed donor from Vancouver, Washington, 2018.

Nova Star

Pole Dry. Original bean from my Potter Valley, California donor in 2013.

Nova Star Segregation

Pole Dry. I found this bean among my 2013 grow out of Nova Star. I wonder if it could be a variation caused by soil differences.

Ntingi

Pole Dry. Donated by Joseph Simcox in 2013. Country of origin Kenya.

Nwambili

Pole Dry. Vigorous growth. Prolific producer. Dry pods 5 inches long and straight, light yellow with no markings. Produces dry pods over a period of about a month. Donated by Joseph Simcox in 2015. The bean is from the southern regions of the African continent. Nwambili means both in Zulu.

Nyau Tenibe NcHenachena

Pole Dry. Another of Africa’s beautiful green seeded beans. Collected by Joseph Simcox in a village in a mountainous region of northern Malawi. Seed was given to me by Karen Golden at her home in Michigan in early 2020.

Occio Della Madonna

Pole Dry. My seed donor is from Valpiano, Italy, 2019.

Octarora Cornfield

Pole. Donated to Seed Savers Exchange Heritage Farm around 2005. Weaver states the bean has been grown many years by the Quakers of Sadsbury, Pennsylvania in Chester county which then could possibly make it a Lenape or Susquehannock variety pre-1840.

O'Driscoll

Pole Dry. Early maturing, a true heirloom from the O’Driscoll family in England. My seed donor is from Groningen, The Netherlands 2019.

Old Black Coco

Pole Dry . This bean maybe closer to an old native American type that what Black Coco is today. From my Potter Valley, California donor in 2013.

Old Time Golden Stick

Pole Dry. Vines are productive and early maturing. Pods are short and fat. The bean comes from Fentress county, Tennessee.

Old U.S. Pinto

Pole Dry. From a bean farmer friend in Twin Falls, Idaho, 2018.

Olga’s Yugoslavian

Pole Snap. Early green pods. Brought to the state of Washington 130 years ago by a Joseph Schober. My seed donor is Tessa Gowans of Port Townsend, Washington 2023.

Ora’s Speckled

Pole. High yeilding bean from my Potter Valley, California donor in 2013.

Orange Speckled Tepary

Bush Dry. From my Potter Valley, California donor in 2013.

Oude Sloveense Boterboon

Pole Wax. Old Slovian Butter bean. This bean comes to me from a donor in Meise, Belgium 2015.

Pale Grey Lavender

Semi Runner Dry. Another bean from my donor and occasional bean trading friend in Meise, Belgium 2018

Parker’s Half Runner

Pole Dry. Another Seed Swap acquistion of 2021 likely in Tennessee. This bean is sold by Appalachian Heirloom Beans in Hilham, Tennessee.

Parker’s Prairie

Bush Dry. A productive 8th segregation from a family group of Lobitz legacy beans with temporary working names of Cold Spring and Long Prairie. I have worked with these beans since 2015. It is my belief that this bean is stable. Named by Russell Crow of Woodstock, Illinois. Parker’s Prairie is a small town of 1,020 people in Ottertail county Minnesota.

Passage To India

Bush Snap. From world traveler and seed collector Joseph Simcox 2015

Paula

Bush Snap. One of the many original named beans by the late Robert Lobitz of Paynesville, Minnesota. My seed donor for this bean is from Port Byron, Illinos 2015.

Paynesville Amber

Bush Dry Another of the many Robert Lobitz original beans. He released this bean through the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook in 1999. My seed donor was Will Bonsall of Industry Maine 2015.

Pea Bean Turkey

Pole Dry. This bean came to me from a Catasauqua, Pennsylvania seed donor in 2017. Many red and white look-a-like varieties. There is a variety in England called Pea Bean that has been grown in the British Isles for over 400 years.

Peck To The Hill

Pole. My Seed donor is from Cynthiana, Kentucky, 2017.

Peregion

Semi Runner. An Oregon heirloom best given support. My seed donor is from Hardwick, Vermont 2015.

Peruano

Bush dry. Peruvian bean is the second most eaten bean in Mexico. It comes to me from seed donor in Meise, Belgium 2015.

Petit Gris

Pole Dry. Prolifically productive bean has it's origin in Normandy, France. Plants can easily grow 10 feet. My seed donor is from Groningen, The Netherlands 2013.

Petaluma Gold Rush

Pole Dry. The beans were brought to California in the 1840's from Peru. The Azevedo family continued to grow the beans for over 150 years. They were cooked up and served to the miners during the California Gold Rush. Purchased these from Victory Seeds in Molalla, Oregon in 2013.

Piattella

Semi-Runner-Dry Another bean donated to me by Italian grower in Cortona, Italy in 2012.

Piet Special

Pole. Seed donor is from Hercules, South Africa 2013. I'm told the bean comes from Hennopsrivier, South Africa.

Pink Early

Semi Runner Dry. From my seed donor in Hobartville, New South Wales, Australia 2014. No mention of it's origin, but I would suspect donor may have gotten it out of the Australian Seed Bank.

Pink Eye Soldier

Bush Dry. Donated to Seed Savers Exchange Heritage Farm by John Withee and his Wanigan Associates bean network in 1981. Mr. Withee has obtained the bean from a Gran Robertson of Salt Lake City, Utah in the 1970’s. It is said to have been taken west by pioneers from Illinois.

Pink Panther

Bush Dry. First dry pods in about 85 days. Sent to me by my Liebenfels, Austria bean friend 2015. Bred by Erich Gerencser of Styria, Austria.

Pink Poded Burgundy Bolitas

Bush Dry. My seed donor is from Potter Valley, California 2013. At the time I was sent these beans my donor said these have grown with pink pods for two generations, but will that continue. I have not tried them myself.

Pinktip

Pole Snap. I believe these are a wax variety. Grew them once in the 1980's. Have no idea where the bean might have originated from. My seed donor is Joseph Simcox 2013.

Pinktip Greasy

Pole Greasy From the Bethel area of Haywood County North Carolina. Like other Pinktip beans, the pointed tip turns pink when the pods mature for eating as a full bean. Said to be the only variety that has both a pinktip and is a greasy.

Pink Tenders

Pole Snap. Seed was given to me by one of the attendees of the 2020 Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Seed Swap in Livingston, Tennessee.

Pink Standard

Pole Lima. Origin of this true pink lima is Peru. The bean was donated by Curt Buroughs of Memphis, Missouri in 2018. The bean is also held in the lima collection of the USDA at their Pullman, Washington seed bank. Not an early variety. The bean pushes my growing season here in northern Illinois all the way to first frost in October.

Pinto

Semi Runner Dry. Commrical Pinto bean sent by my Potter Valley, California seed donor 2013.

Pisarecka Zlutoluske

Bush Wax. Early productive. Might be the earliest wax bean in the world. My seed donor from Catasauqaua, Pennsylvania sent this bean to me in 2016. Country of origin Hungary.

Portugese Red

Bush Dry. Bush plants are compact. Seed was donated by my South African seed donor in 2013.

Potawatami

Pole Dry. Climbing cranberry type seems to be asscoiated with the Potawatami of southern Michigan. Could this bean have been Seneca Strawberry or Tonawanda Strawberry traded between the Potawatami's and Iroquois nation peoples. My seed donor Rockford, Illinois 2019.

Potawatomi Lima

Pole Lima. This bean’s story is irrevocably linked to the story of indigenous Potawatomis, who, before European colonization, lived in lower Michigan. My seed donor is from Holt, Michigan 2022.

Potomac

Pole Snap. Stringless slightly curved green pods. Released by the Associated Seed Growers of New Haven Conecticut in 1943. Resistant to common bean mosaic. Said to be one of the best hot weather producing snap beans. My seed donor is Brynn Paillet of Lebanon, Tennessee 2018.

Powder Star

Pole Dry. An original bean by my Potter Valley, California seed donor 2013.

Precoce de Samur

Bush Dry. Cranberry type variety brought back to the U.S. by Joseph Simcox. Country of Origin France.

Pressley

Pole Lima. From the bean collection of the Seed Savers Exchange, Decorah, Iowa, 2017

Preston's Old Family Heirloom

Bush Snap. From my Hobartville, New South Wales, Australia seed donor 2014. Country of origin. Australia.

Pride Pole

Pole Snap. Donated to Seed Savers Exchange Heritage Farm in 1998 by 96 year old Theodore Meece of Somerset, Kentucky. Meece had grown these beans for several decades and indicated they have been grown in Kentucky for over a hundred years. Supposedly good for canning or freezing.

Princes Rose

Bush Dry. Original named bean of Robert Lobitz. Introduced through the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook in 2001.