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Bean Seeds, Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch, pods in a pile
Bean Seeds, Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch, pods in a hat
Bean Seeds, Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch, handful of pods
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Bean Seeds, Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch, pods in a pile
Bean Seeds, Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch, pods in a hat
Bean Seeds, Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch, handful of pods

Bean Seeds, Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch

$4.50

Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): A productive, tender, delicious, string bean in just six weeks, even in cool spring weather. Pods mature from green to a beautiful pink and produce pink seeds at their dry bean stage. “Bunch” bean is Southern Appalachian for “bush bean," and these beans produce their early crop on convenient, compact plants. Their namesake, Ms. Maggie Flowers of Burkesville, Kentucky remembers neighbors and family members growing these beans at least back to her grandparents' generation. We're proud to offer this rare piece of Appalachian heritage to gardeners everywhere, and hope that many people grow and share them in the tradition and generosity of Ms. Maggie Flowers!

Weight (avg. seeds): 12 g (52 avg. seeds per packet)

Seed Grower: Anne Grier, Gaining Ground Farm, Leicester, NC

USA Shipping Only | $5 Flat Rate or FREE Shipping on Orders over $45 | Our collective members pack and ship the seeds together. First Ship Date, Feb 15, 2026.

Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): A productive, tender, delicious, string bean in just six weeks, even in cool spring weather. Pods mature from green to a beautiful pink and produce pink seeds at their dry bean stage. “Bunch” bean is Southern Appalachian for “bush bean," and these beans produce their early crop on convenient, compact plants. Their namesake, Ms. Maggie Flowers of Burkesville, Kentucky remembers neighbors and family members growing these beans at least back to her grandparents' generation. We're proud to offer this rare piece of Appalachian heritage to gardeners everywhere, and hope that many people grow and share them in the tradition and generosity of Ms. Maggie Flowers!

Weight (avg. seeds): 12 g (52 avg. seeds per packet)

Seed Grower: Anne Grier, Gaining Ground Farm, Leicester, NC

USA Shipping Only | $5 Flat Rate or FREE Shipping on Orders over $45 | Our collective members pack and ship the seeds together. First Ship Date, Feb 15, 2026.

We love Maggie Flowers Pink Bunch Bean for its fast and productive bush-bean plants as well as its beautiful pink pods and seeds. 

In 2001, Maggie Flowers sent Pink Bunch Bean seeds to wild food expert, Vickie Shufer, in Virginia. Vickie was not an active gardener, and stored these seeds under her bed for 12 years! In 2013, she connected with Yanna Fishman, a respected Western North Carolina seed steward, and forwarded on the box of seeds. In 2014, Yanna contacted Maggie Flowers, who shared more seeds and stories of their history. 

Yanna has been growing and saving the Pink Bunch Bean and has shared it widely throughout her community. It’s a definite favorite of many! A string bean may put some folks off, but there are plenty of Appalachian elders who will tell you a stringless bean is also a tasteless bean! 

We're proud to offer this rare piece of Appalachian heritage to gardeners everywhere, and hope that many people grow and share them in the tradition and generosity of Maggie Flowers!

A letter from Maggie Flowers (1938-2019): These [Pink Bunch Bean] will be ready to eat in about 6 weeks from planting. Mama said all old people she knew planted them to have early beans to eat. These have been raised by people in my area, I know, back to my grandparents. Mama said her mother raised the white six week bean and she liked them best. Everyone has lost seed of the white ones. I sure would like to find some. I don’t know anyone else who still has the brown and pink ones. 

Anne Grier, Gaining Ground Farm, Leicester, NC

Anne Grier collaboratively runs Gaining Ground Farm in Leicester, NC, with her husband, children, and several seasonal employees. The farm produces vegetables for sale with a focus on heirloom varieties and has a keen interest in seed saving. Seed saving and sharing offer a connection to the past and the future and to each other in a way that feels really important and good to her.