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Susan's Big Beautiful Bean Patch Project

 After decades of cultivating and saving bean seeds, I created a reference book documenting each variety through photographs of flowers, pods, and seeds, alongside the history and my observations. To integrate my art into the project, I hand-stitched 110 fabric bean patches, combining 660 fabric scraps, 450 threads, and the actual bean seeds and included them in the book. 

Amish Nuttle_edited.jpg
Annie Jackson.JPG
Arikara Yellow.JPG
Baire Verte Indian.JPG
Beurre de Rocquencourt.JPG
Bis.JPG
Black Canerbury Dwarf.JPG
BlackGram.JPG
Black Russian.JPG
Black Valentine.JPG
Bloomin Prairie.JPG
Blue Bird Egg.JPG
Blue Coco.JPG
Blue Grey Speckled.JPG
Blue Jay Snap.JPG
Blue Lake Pole.JPG
Brittle Wax.JPG
Burpee's Green Stringless.JPG
Canadian Wild Goose.JPG
Candy.JPG
Cherokeetrailoftears.JPG
Comtessee de Chambord French Filet.JPG
Crimson Flowered Broad.JPG
Deseronto Potato.JPG
Dolloff.JPG
Dragon Tongue.JPG
Drew's Dandy.JPG
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Early Riser.JPG
Early Thorogreen Lima.JPG
Eastern Yellow Butter Wax.JPG
Elva's Yellow Butterwax.JPG
Fin de Bagnols.JPG
Flagg.JPG
Fort Portal Jade.JPG
Frijol en Seco Pinto.JPG
Frondall Yellow.JPG
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Ga Ga Hut Pinto.JPG
GoldJacobsCattle.JPG
Gold Marie.JPG
Good Mother Stallard.JPG
Grandma Nellies' Yellow Mushroom.JPG
Great Northern Bean.JPG
Green Crop Green.JPG
Hanna Hank.JPG
Hidatsa Red.JPG
Hopi Black.JPG
Improved Golden Wax.JPG
Iroquois Cornbread.JPG
Jacob's Cattle.JPG
Jessie Fisk.JPG
John's Bean.JPG
Jumbo Roma.JPG
Kahnawake Mohawk.JPG
Limelight Bean.JPG
Kentucky Wonder Pole.JPG
Key Gold Wax.JPG
Lena Spraybash's Broad.JPG
Light Brown Zebra.JPG
Lilaschecke.JPG
Low's Champion.JPG
Maccarone.JPG
Maine Sunset.JPG
Martoc Broad.JPG
Marvel of Nictaux .JPG
Mayan Red.JPG
Mbombo Bush.JPG
Mennonite K Triple A.JPG
Mennonite Purple Stripe.JPG
Molasses Face.JPG
Montcalm Kidney.JPG
Mrs.Marottis Roma.JPG
Orca.JPG
Othello Pinta.JPG
Pepa de Zapallo.JPG
Pfaelzer Juni.JPG
Pisarecka Zlutoluske.JPG
Polish Pea.JPG
Provider Snap.JPG
Purple Peacock.JPG
Purple Teepee.JPG
Rattlesnake Snap.JPG
Red Peanut.JPG
Red Swan.JPG
Refugee.JPG
Roma 11.JPG
Round White Bean.JPG
Scarlet Beauty.JPG
Scarlet Runner.JPG
Sequoia Romano.JPG
Snowcap.JPG
Soissons.JPG
Southern Soldier.JPG
Strainght n Narrow.JPG
Stringless Green Pod.JPG
Succotash.JPG
Superlative Magpie.JPG
Swedish Brown.JPG
Tendergreen.JPG
Tepary Brown.JPG
Tongue Of Fire.JPG
bigbean_edited.jpg
True Cranberry.JPG
Tuff & Tenacious.JPG
Ugandan Bantu.JPG
Ukrainian Comrades .JPG
Vermont Cranberry.JPG
White Cranberry.JPG
White Runner.JPG
beanpatch#1.JPG
beanpatch#2b.JPG

© 2026
By Susan L. Griffin 

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