Choose from legumes such as clover, vetch, and fava beans which, after being plowed into the ground next spring – and allowing a month for decomposition – will add an abundance of nitrogen to ...

Garden peas, Pisum sativum, and broad beans, or fava beans, Vicia faba, are two of the options for fall planting that I often overwinter in my polytunnel to provide an earlier harvest of these ...

If I had to power rank spring’s most quintessential legumes, I’d place fava beans at the very top.. To start, they’re believed to be the first domesticated food crop, with their earliest ...

Growing cacao trees also requires a lot of water, yet only the seeds of the fruit are harvested. One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented ...

Bring a medium saucepan filled with water to a boil over medium-high. Prepare an ice bath in a large bowl. Add beans to boiling water, and boil until tender, 2 to 3 minutes.

Fresh fava–also called faba–beans in Spain. The season for harvesting fresh faba beans in this region lasts from September into November. CREDIT: Carlos Castro/Europa Press via Getty Images.

Fava beans contain a chemical called levodopa that can be converted into dopamine. A scientist is researching the bean to see if it can reduce depression symptoms. Nadia Mohd-Radzman shared her ...

Growing cacao trees also requires a lot of water, yet only the seeds of the fruit are harvested. One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented ...