Growing butter beans
The first step for any meal prep is washing your grains and vegetables. My mum always tosses the wash water into the garden. Once she tossed some butter beans in the garden and some months later we had these butter bean vines chock-full of white butterbeans. Her vine lived on for several years and kept producing. Legumes such as butter beans are not only nutritious and easy to grow, they are also excellent at improving soil quality by binding atmospheric nitrogen as a result of the symbiotic bacteria that live around their roots. At a time when Russia’s war on Ukraine has led to a world food and fertilizer crisis, every farmer and gardener should be growing legumes such as butter beans in order to naturally improve soil quality and obtain a nutritious food source. Below is a video of a UK grower who was successfully able to grow butter beans (Phaseolus di Spagna) in the UK climate.