“Cherokee” pole bean
Posted in featured selections on Jan 24th, 2007
The black “Cherokee” pole bean, also known as “The Trail of Tears” bean, comes from seed carried by members of the Cherokee Nation on the infamous death march from their native land in the Great Smoky Mountains nearly 1,200 miles to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838-9.
The pods themselves are green and make excellent snap or dried beans. Planted with corn, allowing the beans use the corn stalk as a pole, these beans fix nitrogen in the soil and make up part of the traditional three-sisters method of planting that partners beans, corn and squash.
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