Market Farming

[Sue <swtgrssfrm AT nls.net>]

We sold the pods only.  The pods all become ripe at once so you just cut the 
plant off at
the base and make a big pile of them and get a chair and pull the pods off.  
It was just a
little tricky timing the harvest because some of the pods at the lower part 
of the plant
will be smaller but you harvest when 80 % of the pods are full.  You want to 
get them
before they turn yellow.  Once they start to turn they go quickly.  You also 
want to pick
out the pods with only 1 bean.  The pods should have at least two beans per 
pod.  You
usually need to give people cooking instructions to go along with them so 
they know what
to do with them.  Basically you just steam them in the pod for 10 minutes and 
the either
strip the pod with your month and eat them straight out of the pod or shell 
them like any
other bean and add to any recipe that calls for peas or beans.  I especially 
liked them
with new potatoes in a potato salad.
Sue Steiner
Sweetgrass Farm
Wadsworth, Oh.

Mike Steinberg wrote:

> We are going to be growing and marketing edamame beans for the first time
> this year. Did you sell the whole plant or did you pick it and sell the
> beans that way. Do the plants keep producing if you strip them, and if so,
> for how long will they continue to produce.?
>
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