06/26/2026
Our green bean patch has exploded over the past few weeks. What was 3 double rows of green bean plants has now become one massive green bean bed with no clear defined rows and no nice way to harvest them.
Kelli and Mckenzie have been spending hours in the garden, picking green beans, moving the plants so you can see the rows and where you are stepping, as well as pulling weeds as they go. Then spending a several more hours in the house snapping, washing and pressure canning these green beans so we have them for this winter! It is a labor of love, but boy will we enjoy and reap the benefit of pulling these delicious green beans off the shelf this winter.
We have a very ambitious goal of canning between 200 - 300 quarts and 200 - 300 pints this summer and fall of just green bean. Green beans are a staple for our family meals and we eat them a minimum of 3 to 5 times a week with dinner. The kids love them so much that we now have to heat up one quart plus one pint for dinner, which is 3lbs of fresh green beans canned.
We are 18 quarts and 3 pints closer to our goal with this first batch we harvested in the last two days before the rain hit. We are hoping we can get some more harvested tomorrow before this big heat wave moves in for the summer!
If we have extra green beans in our harvesting this summer we will have it at the Marshfield Farmers' Market. As always we do not spray herbicides or pesticides on any anything grown here on our farm.
