Favas are fun and easy to grow! Broad/Fava Beans are Mediterranean in origin and so were the only beans grown in Europe until European contact with the Americas. Fava varieties range so much in diversity but few collections exhibit their diversity as ours do! They range in seed size from pea to toonie, and in seed colour from white, to yellow, to greens, to reds, to browns, to blacks! Dive in to the wonderful world of favas and discover the many ways the plant can be consumed as well. People have talked about eating the young leaves, young pods whole, fresh shell beans (raw or cooked) once the seeds are larger but not overripe, and the dry seeds rehydrated and cooked as a dry bean. The seeds themselves can be eaten peeled or not. They are also a valuable crop for maintaining soil fertility as they fix more nitrogen than other legume crops. They cross easily and must be isolated from each other if wanting to save pure seed. Like peas, they can be seeded as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring.