…a question I seriously had to ask my mom this morning, while we sat on her couch watching the Food Network. She is an avid gardener when she has the time to keep up with all the work that goes into nurturing our green and leafy little friends. So I guess it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise when little black and purple dried beans began to drop out of her pockets and onto the living room floor. “I was out working in the garden this morning”, she said… as she picked up the beans and went to grab a cup from the kitchen to put them in. That was in all honesty about the only answer she could’ve given that wouldn’t have been weird. “They’re from those beans growing on the teepee in the backyard, this is what they look like…” she said handing me the cup. My judgements turned to curiosity as I took a glimpse of the gorgeous duo-tone colored beans that looked as though they each had been hand-painted …
