 | Yellow Arikara Bean Seeds (Phaseolus vulgaris cv.). Harvested from the gardens at Monticello.Arikara Beans were named for the Dakota Arikara tribe encountered by Lewis and Clark during their "Voyage of Discovery." Dried Arikara beans helped sustain the members of the Expedition through the arduous Fort Mandan winter of 1805. They were known as 'Ricara' beans to Thomas Jefferson, who was likely the first to grow them in eastern North America. He wrote that it "is one of the most excellent we have had: I have cultivated them plentifully for the... - Yellow Arikara Bean Seeds (Phaseolus vulgaris cv.). |
