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“Green beans to me just mean summertime. I know when the green beans are ready to pick, it's high summer,” says farmer Andy of the antioxidant-rich legume also variously known as long beans, french beans, string beans and snaps. “You have to pick them every day or every other day, because once they start to flower, they produce their beans so quickly.”
The green bean, he adds, “is one of those vegetables that you have to eat the day that it's picked and you can really taste the difference… a tomato, maybe you can wait a day or two and you won't notice that much difference in the flavor, but with a green bean, when you pick it, it's the tastiest.”
“Green beans to me just mean summertime."
"I definitely mark each season by certain crops, and it's really nice because when the garden is waning from the late spring harvest, which is usually the most abundant, we are harvesting less crops and the green beans for me are so nice. They round out the harvest."
