Comments on: Shagbark’s Black Turtle Beans

By: Laughingrat

Laughingrat — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:13:25 +0000

It’s so nice to see you’re posting again. As a Columbus person, I’m intrigued by the Lunaburger info–I’d never heard of them before. It might be old news for folks who read this, but if you don’t have access to locally-grown dried beans, Rancho Gordo (ranchogordo.com) sells wonderful dried beans, usually grown on small farms and often heirloom or hard-to-find varieties. Their stuff is also fresher than supermarket fare! Local is best, of course, if you can get it.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:02:04 +0000

Hey, Michelle!

I’m going to write a couple more posts about your products–especially the spelt berries. They taste so GOOD! The whole spelt I had before was kinda–oh, cardboardy tasting. Maybe it wasn’t as fresh as yours? I bet that was it. But the spelt berries y’all grow are delicious, and I am working on developing some recipes using them.

Also, I told Brandon this the last time I saw him at the Farmer’s Market, but your spelt flour makes the best pancakes. I replaced all of the whole wheat flour in my usual recipe and 3/4 of the all purpose flour–and the flavor of the pancakes was amazing, and they still rose up light and fluffy. I’ll be posting that new recipe, too.

Any chance you guys will bring us any other beans? Because I LOVE beans. And lentils…..

By: Michelle Ajamian

Michelle Ajamian — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:34:48 +0000

Hi there and thanks for trying our beans! It’s great to know our beans and other products are being tried by writers like yourself.
I’d like to encourage Julie from the Grow Youngstown CSA to get in touch with us to discuss the feasibility of getting our dry beans into her CSA. Of course, anyone is welcome to come on down to Athens, as a few from Columbus already do, to pick up our beans, flour and whole grain directly. Just give us a call at 740-590-8240.
By the way, we are about to bring 1200 lb. of black beans to Columbus to Luna Burger (http://www.lunaburger.com), so if you like black bean burgers and like local beans, these are the burgers to buy (did I say they are absolutely delicious?).
Call us and ask us about Spelt! Ohio grows the most, it’s higher in protein, lower in gluten, and has more fiber than wheat.

By: Julie Cancio Harper

Julie Cancio Harper — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:53:17 +0000

I am so happy to see a new post from you today. Happy Thanksgiving, indeed!

Dried beans came up at the end of the season potluck for our CSA through Grow Youngstown. We were asked if there was anything during the season that we had wanted but had not received and many of us would have liked to have had some local beans.

Thanks so much for the review and recipe. I’d like to stay and chat, but I’ve got to run out to the kitchen to soak some beans.