Chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and more than half of those beans come from two countries in West Africa.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

Families and friends gathered in homes to share a dinner of turkey,cranberries, sweet potatoes,green beans and pumpkin pie.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

Plant pole beans ten to fifteen centimeters apart along rows, and leave about eighty to ninety centimeters of room between the rows.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Green bush beans used to be called string beans because of fibers along the pods containing the seeds.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

The University of Illinois Extension service says you should harvest beans when the pods are firm and have reached their full length.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

This is because diseases that infect beans can stay in the soil and infect the next bean crop.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Farmers in the Philippines are showing new interest in crops like winged beans,string beans, arrowroot and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Or you could plant the beans along rows of hills with four to six seeds per hill.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Picking beans from wet plants can spread bean bacterial blight, a disease that damages the plants.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Visitors are enjoying crawfish etouffees, red beans and rice,gumbo,jambalaya and the famous fried pastries called beignets.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

But plant breeding reduced the fibers, and now the beans are known as snap beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Other plants take nitrogen out of the soil, but beans and other legumes replace it.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Planting beans every two to four weeks until early August will provide a continuous harvest.

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Bean plants produce more beans if pods are continually removed before the seeds are mature.

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Beans should not be planted until all risk of freeze has passed in the spring.

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You could say,for example, that a bad idea is not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Not only are beans a healthy food, they are also good for the soil.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Beans baked in molasses, a sugar product, became a favorite food in the city.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Their beans are used to make cocoa powder, cocoa butter and of course chocolate.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

Also,because the plants are tall, a person can stand while harvesting the beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

The World Cocoa Foundation says an average pod contains twenty to fifty beans.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

Experts say good choices for the garden include tomatoes, peppers,beans and okra.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Beans should be moved to different areas of the garden each year.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

But it was not because the city grew a lot of beans.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

But wait until the plants are completely dry before picking beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Bush beans should be planted five to ten centimeters apart.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Unlike bush beans, pole beans need supports to climb.

VOA: special.2009.03.24