Can legumes save the world?
More than 50 partners across Europe, as well as in Kenya, India and the US, share and showcase inspiring experiences and practical knowledge about legume cultivation and consumption: public gardens and seed exchanges, monthly meetings and lectures, information sheets and promotional media.
Partners
Videos
Monthly meetings
Monthly sessions about everything legume-related, Intercropping, legume mixtures, seed exchanges and more.
Showgardens
Short videos about legume cultivation from all around the world!
Behind the Seeds
Discover the stories of bean lovers around the world that the Global Bean team met at Terra Madre, the Slow Food’s international convention in Turin!
Articles
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Lentil Mania & a happy new year!
Do you know why Italians eat lentils on New Year’s Eve? Have you heard of the Colline Ennesi Black Lentil? Discover lentils from a whole new angle in this article describing the traditions of lentil dishes and how to cook them with a special recipe of Orange lentil salad with fennel from Cecilia Antoni (Bean Beat)!
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Behind the Seeds – Regional beans and bean dishes, with Amanuel Samuel (Ethiopia)
In this fourth “Behind the seeds” interview in the international Slow Food convention in Torino “Terra Madre”, Amanuel Samuel, from Ethiopia, introduces us to Ethiopian regional beans, such as big white beans, his favourite legume, a climbing bean that grows on a structure installed by the farmer, but also his favourite dish: Kurkufa (fagioli and corn powder).
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Win-Winter Grain Legumes
Author: Yana Stiewe (Global Plot Berlin) Based on the research on Winter legume crops of Magdalena Aigner (Arche Noah) Taking a walk during wintertime shows us that the world is asleep. Grey skies, leafless trees and bare soil, nothing covering the ground. The latter is actually nothing nature intends to do but rather anthropogenic interference.
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