In Introducing the Hunan Winged Bean (June/July 2007), we asked readers to write in about their experiences growing winged beans. In the following letter, Mother Earth News reader Jeff Weyers offers ...

When the pods turn black and dry out, you’ll have seeds ready to save for next year’s crop. The tender shoots and white or pale blue flowers can be eaten raw, and add a lot of pizzazz to summer salads ...

), aka Goa bean and princess bean, is a tropical perennial that looks a lot like regular garden beans. It can be grown as an annual in temperate areas such as the Northwest. It may exceed 10 feet in ...

The ideal crop for the next millennium has to be called a super-crop or the supermarket crop. The winged bean may be such a crop. Practically all parts of the plant are used for food. This tropical ...

The only first hand account we have in English, concerning the Burmese cultivation of winged bean Psophocarpus tetragonolobus for its edible tubers, was written over ninety years ago. A survey carried ...

When faced with a word that could be one syllable or two, why waste your breath? Work smarter, not harder. When flipping through the gorgeous Baker’s Creek seed catalog at a friend’s house, I pointed ...

Varanasi: Winged bean, also called ‘wonder vegetable’ because of its properties, is an under-exploited legume vegetable. In view of nutritional value and economic benefits of this crop, a new variety ...

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for prawn, chicken and wing bean salad by Tonka restaurant in Melbourne. “This Vietnamese-inspired dish is one I’ve been making for years,” says D’Sylva. “I ...

Most of us who garden don’t have the space to grow grain crops such as wheat or barley, but we have space to grow legumes such as beans and peas. Legumes are second in importance only to grains in the ...