The harvest has begun
Posted by niilaaci aacimwaapiikonki on Tuesday, August 5
Scott and volunteer Ashley Murphy harvested these beans last week. The beans are an assortment of Ojibwe Scarlet Runner Beans, Iroquois Cranberry Beans, Mandan Sheild Beans, Lakota Eagle Beans, and Potawatomi Lima Beans. This is first step in beginning our cataloging process. After harvesting the beans last week we placed them in our museum isolation room to dry and so that anything that may have hitched a ride inside the museum will have been gone before we begin accessioning them into the museum collection. Next we will separate the beans from their shells and begin assigning catalog numbers to each type of bean. These are only a small portion of the beans from the gardens that are ready!
