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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: June 19, 2012
Caption: Velvet Beans
Additional Description: Velvet beans were often planted alongside corn. Each fall, corn leaves were stripped and impaled on a cornstalk to dry out for fodder, and the velvet beans were picket. Jimmy Carter remembers the stinging fuzz on these beans made the job one of the most irksome tasks on the farm.
Submitted: June 25, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p209299
File Size: 1.197 Megabytes

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