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11-14-08 Green bean delivery to Marion-Polk Food Share.
This year's green bean project leader, Brian Haley standing with 8 pallets of green beans in the back of...
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11-14-08 Green bean delivery to Marion-Polk Food Share.
Just a few of the 21,000 cans of green beans being unloaded from one of Marion-Polk Food Share's trucks....
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9-27-08 Harvest time.
Here's a full harvester dumping its load of fresh green beans. The harvesters picked 45,900 pounds of...
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9-27-08
Two Pixalls get ready to pass each other in the field. The three harvesters took close to 5 hours to harvest the field!
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9-27-08 Harvest time.
Just a few of the beans harvested from this year's bean field! The cup is an irrigation fitting provided by Butler Farms.
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9-27-08 Harvest time.
Here's one of the Pixalls working its way across the field.
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9-28-08 Harvest time.
Jodran Truitt Harvesting, a contractor with Truitt Bros. donated the harvesting and hauling of the...
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9-13-08 Mature green beans (7 weeks old)!
Here's a closer look at a green bean row. Green beans are starting to form on the plants!
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9-13-08 Mature green beans (7 weeks old)!
The plants are growing tall and healthy. Just under a month until harvest time!
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9-13-08 Mature green beans (7 weeks old)!
Seven weeks after planitng the field is getting close to harvest. Here's a ground-view look down one of the rows.
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8-11-08 Green beans 4 weeks after planting.
An even closer look at the plants show flowers starting to form. Once pollenated, these flowers will turn into green beans.
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8-11-08 Green beans 4 weeks after planting.
Here's a closer look at the bean plants a month after planting.
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8-11-08 Green beans 4 weeks after planting.
A month after planting the bushes are really taking shape. Volunteer work crews from Marion County...
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8-2-08 Young green beans 2 weeks after planting.
Here's a close up of some young 2-week old green bean plants.
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8-2-08 Young green beans 2 weeks after planting.
Two weeks after planting the rows have clearly taken shape!
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7-18-08 Freshly planted bean rows.
Here are a few of the freshly planted bean rows. Since the field was planting in July it will take about...
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7-18-08 Five Oak Farms planting the seeds.
Here's the tractor planting all those seeds! The blue arm sticking out of the spreader tells the tractor...
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7-18-08 Five Oak Farms planting the seeds.
Here is Denny Ditchen from Five Oak Farms filling the seed spreader with seeds. Denny volunteered his...
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2008 Green Bean Production
