Growing Resources
Cultivation Instructions and Information Sheets from the Global Bean Project
How to make protective structures for keeping bean seedlings warm in spring: https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/lessons/covers-for-speeding-growth-and-pest-protection
How to make a bean teepee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dSRKkn9W1U
How to make an A frame for beans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpY_mUZTLJU
Seed Saving Guide: https://shop.seedsavers.org/site/pdf/Seed%20Saving%20Guide_2017.pdf
Landrace gardening free course: https://goingtoseed.org/products/1406309
Real seeds seed saving information: https://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedsavinginfo.html
Charles Dowding on YouTube (general growing in a northern climate): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg
General Information
Pulses: nutritious seeds for a sustainable future from the Food and Agriculture Organisation
Five things to know about pulses from the Sustainable Food Trust
Rethinking Plant-Based Meat Alternatives from The Food Foundation
Bean Campaigns
Beans is How – including toolkits for schools and kitchen staff, and a theory of change on how we get more people eating beans in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Full of Beans project is featured in the Beans is How 2024 Annual report, which you can find here.
BeanMeals have worked with Sustainable Food Places to apply systems thinking awareness to their work on bringing UK beans to schools in Leicester and Leicestershire. This toolkit provides guidance for how to plan to transform a local food system with evidence and examples from the BeanMeals project.
Anything is Pulse-able from Eating Better includes environmental and health information about pulses as well as tasty recipes.
BeanMeals: Systemic innovation from fork-to-farm from the Environmental Change Institute. Research on UK grown bean varieties and using these in home-cooking and institutional catering.
Raising the Pulse: Small beans, big opportunities from the British Nutrition Foundation and the University of Reading who have been working on campus-wide engagement, information and dissemination on the nutritional, health and environmental benefits of UK-grown faba beans and other pulses.
Recipes
Global Gardens Festival of Peas (and Pulses) Zine from the Global Gardens Project