Bean Runner Anasazi

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This is an ancient dry bean. It has a twining (weak climbing) habit. The Anasazi is also called the Aztec bean, Cave bean, New Mexico Appaloosa and sometimes Jacob’s Cattle. It is a 1,500-year-old variety. The most popular story behind the modern origin of the bean is that in the 1980’s a member of an archaeological team from UCLA came upon these beans in New Mexico, in a clay pot sealed with pine tar. They were tested by radiocarbon dating to be over 1,500 years old, yet some still germinated! Although initially called “New Mexico Cave Beans”. No one knows what the original growers called themselves – Anasazi is a Navajo word that means ‘ancient ones’. 

Profits from the sale of this product are paid to the Heritage Food Crops Charitable Trust. Seed is not commercially produced but is grown and collected by the trust. Every attempt to provide quality seed has been made, however no guarantee is given for germination, and no refunds or replacements will be given. Seed is limited and purchase is seen as a donation to the trust to support their ongoing work.