{"id":30606,"date":"2022-10-22T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T08:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30606"},"modified":"2022-10-22T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T08:26:34","slug":"red-cheeks-and-fingerprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30606","title":{"rendered":"Red Cheeks and Fingerprints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I harvested two of the more beautiful broad (fava) beans I&#8217;ve grown yesterday, both of which originate in Canada. Red Cheek and Fingerprint favas. The diversity of forms, colours and sizes in these beans doesn&#8217;t cease to amaze me! I will definitely be trying to maintain these forms within my grex of broad beans (selection for a wide diversity of different forms every year and all planted close together so that they will cross promiscuously)!<br \/>Read legendary Will Bonsall&#8217;s article on fava beans where he talks about the diversity of forms and his collection of 250 varieties he maintains for Seed Savers Exchange: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/resources\/beans\/favas\">https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/resources\/beans\/favas<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/resources\/beans\/favas\/\"><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30608 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA228794-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA228794-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA228794-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA228794-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA228794-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA228794-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA228794-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA228794-1-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30609 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA218790.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA218790.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA218790-300x287.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA218790-768x733.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA218790-640x611.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I harvested two of the more beautiful broad (fava) beans I&#8217;ve grown yesterday, both of which originate in Canada. Red Cheek and Fingerprint favas. The diversity of forms, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,1939],"tags":[817,816,65,4717,4720,3553,416,4719],"class_list":["post-30606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beans","category-pulses","tag-bondebonner","tag-broad-beans","tag-diversity","tag-fingerprint-fava-beans","tag-red-cheek-fava-beans","tag-seed-savers-exchange","tag-vicia-faba","tag-will-bonsall"],"views":2385,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30613,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606\/revisions\/30613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}