Bean enthusiast, vegetable grower and retired university lecturer. Author of Growing Beans: A diet for healthy people and planet.
Joined September 2021
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31 Jan 2024
I'll be looking out for this -
It'll be interesting to discover what I said, I don't remember at all.
31 Jan 2024
Tomorrow 📣 We are so excited to announce that the new series of the Chefs’ Manifesto #Podcast will be talking about all things #BEANS with experts and enthusiasts from around the world. Episodes will be released weekly. Stay tuned. @drybeancouncil
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Susan Young retweeted
30 Apr 2023
Are Beans the Answer to Everything?
🕒 Weds 3 May, 7-9.30pm 📍 @UniofExeter
Hear from Josiah Meldrum how Hodmedod emerged from a community project, aiming to show what farming & dietary change might look like for the UK. eventbrite.co.uk/e/hodmedod-… #lovepulses
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2 May 2023
How apt - that Exeter Uni - where I used to lecture, is hosting at talk by Josiah of Hodmedods 'are beans the answer to everything?' - an Exeter food event.
Yes, they are the answer of course.
@Hodmedods
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Susan Young retweeted
And at Exeter Uni - where I used to lecture - and yes, of course, beans ARE the answer to everything.
Check out "Hodmedod: Are Beans the Answer to Everything?" eventbrite.co.uk/e/hodmedod-… @Eventbrite
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A solitary green-winged orchid flowering in my wild flower meadow; a small field behind our house that I've maintained as a WFM for 20 yrs. The flowers DO return - even if it takes a while.
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8 Mar 2023
One of our members got a little excited with @Hodmedods after the zoom talk from Susan Young @growing_beans.
#beans #organic #pulses #norfolkorganicgroup #local
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3 Mar 2023
Another v. enjoyable evening talking to a local gardening society & hopefully persuading them to grow & eat more beans.
I'm reminded how veg growing traditions are slow to change. From my anthropology & education background, traditions, culture & processes of change interest me
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26 Feb 2023
Thanks Sue and @taylorcherry14 and all the wonderful volunteers who made it such a fab event. The tea and cakes were awesome too 😋
25 Feb 2023
A glimpse of the highly successful Monmouth Seed Swap today.
Photos feature the activity around the bean table - in order to link with International Bean swap event later in April. @2000m2Weltacker
@seeddetective @HeritageSeedsUK
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28 Feb 2023
Very enjoyable evening talking with @Norfolkorganic - lots of interesting questions and discussion. Thank you for the invite.
27 Feb 2023
Today NOG meet by Zoom for Susan Young's talk on beans. Her new book “Growing Beans: A Diet for Healthy People & Planet” encourages looking at growing & eating shelled beans, fresh & dried, as they have numerous benefits for us & our home planet. Details via website. Do join us
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25 Feb 2023
A glimpse of the highly successful Monmouth Seed Swap today.
Photos feature the activity around the bean table - in order to link with International Bean swap event later in April. @2000m2Weltacker
@seeddetective @HeritageSeedsUK
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25 Feb 2023
Off to help at the Monmouth Seed Swap in aid of Heritage Seed Library @HeritageSeedsUK Who doesn't love a seed swap?
Lots of beans packeted up @2000m2Weltacker
And NO, I definitely don't need any more seeds . . . but there again . . .
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Susan Young retweeted
10 Feb 2023
It's #worldpulsesday so here's a programme from our archive that may have inspired a few of us to eat more beans 👀😍bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015tp… #lovepulses
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Susan Young retweeted
9 Feb 2023
This Saturday as part of the @thegaiafoundation #SeedGathering – the culmination of #SeedWeek and hot on the heels of #WorldPulsesDay on Friday we’ll be in conversation with @RanchoGordo Talking beans, flavour, farming, beans, diversity, culture...
Link in profile for more☝️☝️
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11 Feb 2023
Looking forward to this -
10 Feb 2023
Happy #WorldPulsesDay! A fitting end to #SeedWeek.
Tomorrow, as part of @SeedSov's online Seed Gathering, @Hodmedods talks to @RanchoGordo about creating new markets for crops that have been the pulse of human cuisine and culture for millennia.
Tix ➡️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/seed-gath…
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Susan Young retweeted
10 Feb 2023
Happy #WorldPulsesDay!🎉🌱🍲
We all know #beans (part of the pulse family) are delicious, but did you know that they also support 🌏 #climate action 💚 #nutrition AND they're affordable 💵
Learn more👉 bit.ly/3wZlq6n
@hodmedods @boldbeanco
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11 Feb 2023
#SeedGathergin2023 @DanSaladinoUK @GaiaFoundation
Beans! - at CIAT!
Envy (& great interest) is hearing about Dan's visit to CIAT, Columbia where they have the world's biggest collection of beans - more than 38,000, from 114 countries.
Huge effort to preserve diversity.
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Susan Young retweeted
11 Feb 2023
Today's the day!
We'll be kicking off #SeedGathergin2023 in just over an hour - still time to grab a ticket until tomorrow morning in case you came late to the party.
🥳See you there!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/seed-gath…
@UKGrainlab @Hodmedods @OGAgrowers @customfoodlab
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Susan Young retweeted
10 Feb 2023
"COVID & war have shown the fragility of global #foodsystems. We need to build resilient food systems to cope with external shocks including climate impacts."
How? "Grow and eat more #pulses!"👉🗣️ Cindy Brown, President of @GlobalPulsesGPC at the #WorldPulsesDay @fao event!
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11 Feb 2023
ooh - my book! - good luck with all those wonderful beans.
10 Feb 2023
Happy #WorldPulsesDay!
And it’s #SeedWeek! 🌱
It’s too early to sow here in Leitrim, but we’re planning. Gonna try lots of different beans this year.
We should all be growing & eating more beans for climate, animals & our health.
#WorldLegumeDay
Great book by @growing_beans:
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