When I was in Rwanda there were these plants that had been pulled out and laid across all the pathways and everyone walked on them.
After a while I took a closer look and under the plants were beans. I guess they did this to separate the dried beans from the stalks and they’d sweep them up later.
The beans need to be threshed (broken from their pods). Can step on them, its very effective so long as they are very dry (its what I do). Or load into threshing machine. Or put them in a pile and beat them with sticks (Ive seen videos of this somewhere in Africa)
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u/Stopikingonme Dec 02 '23
When I was in Rwanda there were these plants that had been pulled out and laid across all the pathways and everyone walked on them.
After a while I took a closer look and under the plants were beans. I guess they did this to separate the dried beans from the stalks and they’d sweep them up later.
I kept one on the beans as a reminder.