Okay, here are the hardcore numbers. That entire grocery sack full of beans only netted me 7 one pound bags. Jessie and I cut up the beans and we didn't have discard many. If I am generous in my estimates, and say that we probably had already harvested about half again that much, we would have totaled about 10-11 pounds of processed green beans in our 40 foot row. If I wanted to feed my family one of these, (it's only 4 cups), a week for a year, I would have to grow 5 more rows for a minimum of 240 feet - and that's only for one serving a week!!! This was probably so much less labor than canning. How did women used to manage this?????
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