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View fullsize The Sheridan Acres Bean Box subscription! A week ago we shipped our first subscription box. I forgot to take a picture until I was hauling the last 4 into the post office. These were so much fun to put together and the response was overwhelming! We
View fullsize Our first bean subscription box will ship in just over a week! We’ve been overwhelmed by everyone’s support. The good news is we have room for 5 more boxes in this shipment. If you haven’t gotten yours yet, hop over to the link belo
View fullsize 2016 was quite a year! Our first year to be exact. It took a lot of help and many things were borrowed - land, tractors, and equipment. We took a shot and found out we could grow heirloom beans.
View fullsize They say good things come to those who wait. As harvest nears and the last leaves fall, patience becomes the most important part of the process. Each different bean must dry just right to capture the vibrant colors and rich flavors our heirloom bean
View fullsize We’ve had a few late nights this week cleaning beans and grain. Our Turkey Red wheat is out of the field so it’s time to remove the chaff and clean it up so it can be milled into flour!
View fullsize Where did summer go?! We’re hardly a month away from harvest. August is the month when our beans put on a show of color. The plants start to yellow as their growth cycle starts to wind down. We also see the pods grow and swell. Inside our bea
View fullsize Our bean content has been severely lacking lately while we’ve been preoccupied with wheat. No worries, they are looking great and will return later this week.
View fullsize Our girls don’t just love eating beans, they love cooking them too! Our Everyday Bean recipe is so simple they can do it by themselves from start to finish.
View fullsize Want to keep up with what’s going on at the farm? We’ve wanted to do this for a while—a simple newsletter with updates from the farm, a few favorite recipes, and a little of what we’re learning along the way. We’re ca
View fullsize We’re building a new planter! This winter we decided to take a pile of old and spare parts and build a new planter for our beans. This one will have newer seed meters that will plant more accurately and a monitor to tell us exactly how many s
View fullsize After 6 days of harvest, we’re finished with field work for our biggest crop ever. Now our attention turns to cleaning beans and getting ready for restaurant and web orders. New beans coming soon! #eatmorebeans #michiganbeans #heirloombeans #
View fullsize Sights from day 2 of harvest. We’ve harvested 4 more beans today, bringing our total to 9. Half of our varieties, over 2/3 of our volume.
View fullsize Sights from the first day of harvest. We started this morning by windrowing 5 different beans while the dew was still on so we didn’t break any pods and lose beans. Then we came back this afternoon in the heat of the day when things dried out
View fullsize We are starting to see the change of seasons on the farm. #heirloombeans #heirloomdrybeans #michiganbeans #eatmorebeans
View fullsize An unintentional candid of some black beans. An unlocked phone while checking beans made for a great photo. #blackbeans #eatmorebeans #michiganbeans