A drawback to this crop is its difficulty to harvest. Mowers cannot be used due to the shape and density of the moth bean’s branches, so the crop is typically cut with a sickle.[1] It is threshed and winnowed after being dried for approximately one week.
Man I would like to try both of these and will try and keep a lookout.
It looks like you can get moth beans on Amazon.
I’m sure that it’s possible to buy tepary beans. When I was reading about them, I saw at least two places that grew them, and one place that sold them online. One of the farms was a Native American place.
This is the Native American place, and it looks like they sell them directly.
I don’t think that this is the other place that I saw earlier, but they apparently also sell the (well, one type of them; the different colors apparently have different characteristics):
Amazon seems to only sell small packets for seed use, not bulk for eating.
I also read one page saying that there used to be broader cultivation of the tepary bean in the US prior to World War II, but then changing tastes reduced production.
And there was a page somewhere where some guy who hadn’t had them before tried cooking them into a variety of dishes.
kagis
Pretty sure that this is it, was the guy comparing the characteristics of the different colors:
I had heard moth beans also do well in drought and poor soil. Man I would like to try both of these and will try and keep a lookout.
I haven’t heard of the moth bean.
kagis
It sounds like it also does arid soil; Wikipedia says that a limiting factor is the harvesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_aconitifolia
It looks like you can get moth beans on Amazon.
I’m sure that it’s possible to buy tepary beans. When I was reading about them, I saw at least two places that grew them, and one place that sold them online. One of the farms was a Native American place.
kagis
https://store.ramonafarms.com/Tepary-Beans-Our-Heirloom-BAVI/products/5/
This is the Native American place, and it looks like they sell them directly.
I don’t think that this is the other place that I saw earlier, but they apparently also sell the (well, one type of them; the different colors apparently have different characteristics):
https://www.ranchogordo.com/products/brown-tepary
Amazon seems to only sell small packets for seed use, not bulk for eating.
I also read one page saying that there used to be broader cultivation of the tepary bean in the US prior to World War II, but then changing tastes reduced production.
And there was a page somewhere where some guy who hadn’t had them before tried cooking them into a variety of dishes.
kagis
Pretty sure that this is it, was the guy comparing the characteristics of the different colors:
https://www.boonvillebarn.com/blogs/updates-from-the-farm/its-bean-month-tepary-beans-february-2025
ooh. thanks for the resources. I don’t buy much food online but I mike make an exceptions especially since the one is direct.