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38 Comments
No such thing as a vegatable of course, its just a generic term 🙂
Navy beans have more or less the same nutritional value of any other bean of the same species (which includes black beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, northern beans, canary beans, cattle beans, cranberry beans and many others) on a gram for gram basis, look at the usda nutrition facts. I love navy beans, but there's nothing particularly special about them.
Loved hearing this history ❤️
I thought Kinde, MI in the thumb of Michigan was the bean capital of Michigan.
This is SO amazing!!
Thank you for all of your hard work.
So how come it is so hard to find navy beans in the grocery store now?
I’m Peruvian, this short documentary definitely warms my heart, I didn’t know that, now I will plant some Navy Beans the next year.
Luke, do you know how Navy Beans are called in Peru?
💯💗 the history lesson
Awesome!
My mother couldn't get great Northern beans in Florida, so I regularly, packed 4-6 pounds in my luggage to take to her. I got some really weird looks from TSA agents.
I love history lessons, especially when they involve food.
Kate and her coffee shop will be famous with that welcoming line "i love your life Luke , you're so random " Truly endearing and Luke is so down to earth- Thanks Luke, great video ❤
Now going to research…. MSU does have really good information. How can i plant Navy beans – is it like green beans?
Neighbor here … (I'm sure a few beans snuck into Toledo region of Ohio & beyond, lol.) Do love these kind of topics, Luke. History of Horticulture shd be brought forth. Olmsted brothers & other greats nearly lost. Many fascinating & regional facts to explore. Sources of pride in a forgotten Rust Belt. Kisses to All. — 💌🍒
Great video as always ❤.
Thank you for the history lesson and for taking us along on this jouney.
I ❤ both the Great Nothern and Navy beans, yum!!! Thank you.
Cool car! 🙂
Ha!! I worked for meijer for over 18 years! I wish they were in iowa, I miss shopping there, and love michigan history.
last weeks cool snap caused me to make a crockpot of fantastic ham n beans…
In the 1960s, Gratiot County Michigan was a major producer of navy beans, especially around Ithaca and Breckenridge. We grew them on our farm until we were hit by bean blight and my grandfather switched over to growing soy beans. I don’t know if it’s still the case today, but back then, navy beans were rather labor intensive. They had to be pulled, allowed to dry, and raked into windrows with a hay rake. Then they could be harvested with a combine. One year, we had a very wet harvest season, so once the beans were pulled, the whole extended family manually piled the bean plants against stakes so they could dry. We managed to save most of the crop, but the yield was lower, and the quality was marginal. Once the switch was made to soybeans, navy beans became a garden bean. We rotated bean crops with a five-year rotation, rather than the three-year rotation of the farm fields, and that helped to prevent bean blight. Nowadays, I prefer pinto beans. We still joke that we can’t have a family gathering without someone making baked beans!
I'm curious whether those dried Navy Beans will germinate
Awesome! You need to be a professor at MSU!!
Thanks for the history lesson! And I do love navy beans! Beans and ham! Yummmm!
excellent video, appreciate you
born, raised and lived in eastern MI my whole life until 5 years ago and never knew the bean story. My uncle was a farmer in eastern MI too (wasn't a bean farmer though). Cool story so thanks for sharing.
Grew up having navy beans every Saturday night.. in our house they were baked beans with sweet molasses! True new englander😁
My favorite bean! I’m supposed to be paleo, but sometimes you just gotta have a cup of navy bean soup with ham! 8:03
I love creamy Navy Bean soup
Are northern. Beans the same as navy beans?
All I can say as a former Michigander is: COOL BEANS!
Imagine being on a submarine with a couple hundred sailors eating Navy beans every day, talk about nuclear power!
Very interesting
This video was GREAT! I love garden history and you did a great documentary on the Navy Bean, Luke.
Love the history lesson!!
Never would have learned of this without your video. Thank you!
Great content.
Where'd you move to?
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen
Yes beans! Yes Meijer! Yes Michigan! I'm from the west side which is similarly an epicenter for celery production in the US… except celery is the opposite, lots of bulk for little overall nutrition!