Foraging spot

Green bean tree

Garden volunteer, summer.

Coordinates: 37.861855, -122.264648

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What to do with it

• Blanch or sauté
• Add to stir-fries
• Roast with olive oil

Ways to keep it

• Dilly beans — brine (ferment)
• Pickle (vinegar)
• Blanch & freeze

About Green bean

Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Green beans are known by several common names, including French beans, string beans (although most modern varieties are "stringless"), and snap beans or simply "snaps". In the Philippines, they are also known as "Baguio beans" or "habichuelas" to distinguish them from yardlong beans. Immature or young pods of the runner bean (P. coccineus), yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis), and hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus) are used in a similar way. Green beans are distinguished from the many other bean varieties in that they are harvested and consumed with their enclosing pods before the bean seeds inside have fully matured. An analogous practice is the harvest and consumption of unripened pea pods, as is done with snow peas or sugar snap peas.

From Wikipedia.