Hello Hive

Beans harvest is finally Upon us and we are more than happy and grateful. I will be glad to share with you some of the delicacies we will be making from this beans that we have grown in the coming days, buy for now let's concentrate on harvest and preservation of the beans.

Since our rice plants aren't ready for harvest we decided to check on beans and of course harvest begun as they are ripe already and the pods have even dried up. I had to peel open some of the pods to see if the grains within are properly dried. They have to be harvested when they are well dried in order to eliminate or reduce the stress of us sun-drying them after harvest.
Beans grains can get rotten and go bad in storage if they are not properly dried from the farm. Every moisture content has to be taken out of the grains before they can be stored.

Right after harvest we will sun dry for a day or two if need be before me move in to the stage of peeling the beans. Peeling can be done with heavy duty machines for people that harvested alot of the beans and if peeling machines are available.
But for us the local community here we use mortar and pestle.

We pounds the beans pods in the mortar and pestle to reveal the pods before we move to winnowing to separate the beans from the pods. After that the clean grains can now be stored in bags and properly preserved. I don't know how many Kg of the beans we will be getting this year but harvest of beans is an ongoing process.

This legume crops doesn't produce it's food all at once. And whenever there is a slight availability of moisture it keeps bearing more grains for at least two more weeks.
Harvest will them be in succession for about 2-4weeks

You can see the two types of beans species being planted. The coily and straight beans. Even the formation of their pods shows this difference.

And like I said that there is also a huge difference in the gap of how much these beans taste like.
This year, we didn't plant the tiny specie of beans grains. These two types of beans specie all have some big beans Seeds within while we have yet some other types that have tiny beans seed type.