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Monday, 08 August 2011 08:12

Green Beans

Top Ten Things I Like about Green Beans:

1. Eating them – fresh and raw, or steamed, with a dollop of butter on top.
2. Picking them –racing to the end of the row, watching the basket fill.
olney friends 3. Snapping them – while chatting with friends.
4. Reciting their names – Strike, rattlesnake pole, yellow French wax, haricot vert, burgundy.
5. Knowing they enrich the soil – they add nitrogen, while most other vegetables do not.
6. Watching them disappear at meals – they’re popular with the teens at our boarding high school.
7. Savoring their nutritional profile – protein, vitamin K, vitamin C, manganese…. (I could go on.)
8. The color – I love bein’ green!
9. Watching the freezers fill up with 80 gallons of green beans, enough to serve 18 meals.
10. Eating 100% of our own green beans at Olney Friends School in 2011-2012.
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Kirsten Bohl

Kirsten Bohl

Kirsten Bohl grew up in Pennsylvania, where she picked and snapped beans for her family’s freezer. Now she works at Olney Friends School, a coed boarding and day high school in Barnesville, Ohio. To schedule a campus visit including a farm tour, contact admissions@olneyfriends.org or 740-425-3655.

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