Wild Kidney Bean or Thicket Bean (Phaseolus polystachios)

•Wild Kidney Bean is a legume (belonging to the same family as peas, beans, chickpeas, etc) and as such it fixates nitrogen into the soil as it grows.

•Provides food for numerous small mammals, song birds and large birds

•Grows up to 20-30 feet long and can add food & shelter for various insects, birds, and humans

•Known to be extremely adaptive and resilient- and can be relied on as a food source through most scarcities

•Dried beans gathered from brown pods are edible and are prepared & stored the same way you would traditional beans.

•Dried beans are high in protein and fiber and known to aid in diabetes, high cholesterol, & diabetes

•Young bean pods look like green peas and can be eaten fresh or cooked.

•Thrives in well-drained, moist, fertile soils & garden soils but will grow in almost any environment. Leave the plant to grow on its own in a moist woodland spot and harvest the seeds- plant those and continue to save & replant them and you’ll have climate resilient super beans after a decade or so of practice.

•Thrives in full sun to partial shade

•Thrives moist soil and benefits from additional water