Dry Bean, Beef-Bush Black Resilient

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Rich-tasting dry beans that not only taste great, but are meant to produce a good crop of food no matter how difficult the conditions. Phenomenally productive and early. This strain is 90% fully black beans, with the occasional gold bean. Selected out of "Beefy Resilient Grex" for earliness, black seeds, and more of the bush habit. The plants will be a mix of fully-bush and semi-runner plants, but can be grown without support. Handles heat and drought like a champ, but was bred for the cool summers of the Pacific Northwest. Cooks quickly, with delicious meaty, beefy flavor. Easy to thresh. Beefy Resilient survived heat, drought, and boron-laden water in my garden when all the other beans died. OSSI-pledged open-source variety, grown for us by breeder Carol Deppe. If you are not familiar with Carol's gardening books, treat yourself--almost every page has some acutely-observed and super-practical tip for gardening in the real world.

The Open Source Seed Initiative exists so that breeders who originate new varieties can protect them from exploitation and patenting by corporations. It means that the breeder has freely given up patent rights in order to keep the variety in the public domain forever. The OSSI pledge reads: "You have the freedom to use these OSSI-pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others' use of these seeds or their derivatives, by patents or other means, and to include this pledge in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives."