What is Beananza? 

Beananza is a summer-long series of programming that lets you follow along as the student farm grows, cares for, and processes dried beans. This project is a collaboration between the Penn State Student Farm and the Pasto Agricultural Museum and is open to people of all ages and all levels of growing knowledge and experience. Our first two events (April 20th and May 18th ) will include a bag of beans for you to take home and plant in your own garden to watch grow along with us! We’ll also have an email list that you can join for some basic growing information and occasional reminders to water and cultivate. Along with this we’ll be hosting a series of events throughout the summer focused on all things beans! This will include a workday on plant care and basic sustainable agriculture practices, a cultural night full of bean-related stories, poetry, and art, and a processing night at the end of the growing season where we can celebrate our harvest with some chili! 

If you’re interested in receiving updates about upcoming events or if you’re growing with us and would like to get updates on what we’re doing with our crops each week, join the Growing Together: Beananza listserv. You can do so by sending an email to the following address: 

AG-Growing-Together-L-subscribe-request@lists.psu.edu