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Mary Shelly Beans 🎃 🫘 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · about 16 hours ago

Hello! Rancho Gordo is good. Especially for catch all source of beans If there is specific legumes you’re looking for I can point to specific places For example for pintos I’d recommend Adobe Mills For peas the Palouse growers and so on

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Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · about 17 hours ago

After a two year wait, I have finally been accepted into the exclusive Rancho Gordo bean club, and now I’m here to reveal their most closely-held secret: the corporate-approved name for members is beaniacs, but some of them refer to themselves as… leguminati.

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Amy @amy4opus.bsky.social · about 17 hours ago

I've been a Rancho Gordo loyalist for years and I just wanted to add since I didn't see it here that some of their best products (IMO) come from (purportedly) small farms in Mexico. It's the XOXOC Project. www.ranchogordo.com/colle….

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The Rancho Gordo-Xoxoc Project

These items are the results of our two companies working together to help small farmers continue to grow their indigenous products in Mexico, despite international trade policies that seem to discoura...

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Laura Lee @lauraleeactor.bsky.social · about 18 hours ago

We’ve been eating Rancho Gordo beans for a few years, but it was only last week that I read the history of how/why Steve Sando started. Very cool background of his continuing quest to preserve heirloom beans. I went down a rabbit hole reading source links on his wiki. Now I’m an even bigger fan.

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He suggests that those of us who are immigrants to the Americas should learn what is from this continent and respecttully and joyfully incorporate those ingredients into our kitchens. For Rancho Gordo, this extends beyond eating. Confounding market logics, Rancho Gordo shares with the Seed Savers Exchange, and ships free beans every spring to anyone who wants to give home-garden bean production a try. This practice stands in sharp contrast to legal suits by corporate giants against farmers who save seeds. It also stands out against the highly extractive economies that develop around "super foods" (to our knowledge, no coordinated group aims to propagate mini-crops of quinoa from stock purchased at Whole Foods). Though the vast majority of Rancho Gordo members remain primarily eaters but not growers of beans, there is something noteworthy about the economic model of an artisan food
company that unwaveringly supports and encourages seed saving, a basic tenet of food Sovereignty.
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👻 Spooky Cat War 👻 @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · about 18 hours ago

He has some info here: www.ranchogordo.com/pages…

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The Rancho Gordo Story

The origins of Rancho Gordo and Steve Sando's quest for heirloom beans, corn and chiles. Products indigenous to the Americas.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · about 18 hours ago

Someone on here told me since, after nearly 43 years, I'm a beans guy, I should be a Rancho Gordo bean guy. I like what I hear but everything I hear seems to be pro small business propaganda, where's the bad news? This is California agriculture we're talking about, there are maybe 7 good actors!

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Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social · about 22 hours ago

There are countless black bean soup recipes out there, but this one from Timothy Pakron (@mississippivegan) stands out. As he puts it, "I don’t hold back with the spices," and trust us, he's not kidding! Photo by Timothy Pakron. Link to recipes: www.ranchogordo.com/blogs….

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@todays-pizza.bsky.social · about 22 hours ago

Wed Oct 14: Pizza Cauliflower, caramelized onion, pistachio, mozzarella, Montalbán cheese, garlic olive oil, parsley Salad Santanero Negro Delgado bean (Rancho Gordo), roasted corn, queso fresco, salad mix, chile-lime dressing Lunch 11:30 am to 2:30 pm Dinner 4:30 pm to 8 pm DETAILS

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 1 day ago

It’s all a Rancho Gordo conspiracy, I tell ya

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 1 day ago

I’m waiting patiently for Rancho Gordo’s IPO.

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