Michi Bauer

French beans

There are two types of beans: bush beans and pole beans. While bush beans grow in a bush-like manner and have short, sturdy stems, pole beans need support and have long, thin stems. Both bush beans and pole beans have green or yellow pods, depending on the variety. Beans with yellow pods are called wax beans.

CULTIVATION

Rust is a small town located just a few kilometers from the Danube River in the Tullnerfeld region. It is a small town, but an oasis for vegetable cultivation. Vegetables have been grown here for many generations.

This is also the case on the farm of Michael Bauer.

The wind blows through the leaves of the cabbage, a specialty of the farm, but many other types of vegetables also thrive in the fertile, deep soils. Pumpkins in all colors, zucchini in green and yellow, various turnips, leeks and green beans..... and every imaginable type of cabbage.

The farm is managed as a "mixed farm". Arable farming, livestock farming and vegetable growing complement each other positively.

A natural cycle is created and forms the basis for near-natural agriculture.

We live with and from nature, every day.

Origin

The garden bean is native to the tropical and subtropical forests of Central and South America, especially southern and western Mexico. Not only there, but all over the world, the bean is one of the most important crops. The main areas of cultivation worldwide are Europe and East Asia. In Europe, Italy, France and Spain are the leaders. In addition to our own cultivation, we also receive imports from the Netherlands, Turkey, Poland and African countries.

Tips

Fresh beans should be firm and crisp. You can tell by bending the pod sharply to see if it breaks cleanly. The break should also be green and juicy. In the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator, beans will keep for only 2 days. Please protect the beans from drafts (otherwise the beans will become "rubber beans") and from moisture (rust formation).

Preparation

Due to the health-damaging phasin content of the raw pods, beans are only used cooked. The most common use is in bean soups in a wide variety of variations and flavors. To prepare beans as a vegetable, larger pods are chopped up, others are left whole. Before cooking in boiling salted water, the tips and stem ends are cut off. Beans can also be steamed or stewed.