Besides the fact that this is bean-harvest season, it’s a good time to think about incorporating this highly nutritious and health-promoting food into our meal plans. Beans are legumes — plants with ...

Enchanted beans are no longer a fairy tale proposition for agriculture. Thumb-sized plastic beans, packed with a world of sensor circuitry, might soon be ready for grain bins and storage facilities.

“I thought beans were just beans,” says Sharpstown resident Jane Hudson of her view on the legumes before she saw the light. For four years now, she has been a member of the Rancho Gordo Bean Club.

Magic Beans’ music festival Beanstalk has announced the details for the 10th anniversary of their event in Bond, Colo. set for June 23 through 25. Beanstalk is beloved for its laidback atmosphere, a ...

It’s been three months since the band Ween announced their indefinite touring hiatus. A bummer for fans of the New Hope, Pennsylvania-based rock band, whose sounds wander from hard-rock to pop, ...

When I was a kid we had a game that involved moving dried beans around the pits of a wooden board with the objective of capturing as many as you could by the end of the competition. I can’t remember ...

The Magic Beans, from left to right: Scott Hachey (guitar and vocals), Casey Russell (synth and vocals), Cody Wales (drums) and Josh Appelbaum (bass) Today’s Coloradan jam bands face the same plight ...

With a 6-year-old volunteer’s help, a magician-turned-farmer conjured a milk carton out of thin air during the Magic Bean show on Wednesday at the 32nd annual Texas State Forest Festival. The Magic ...

Just like the peanut is not really a nut and the pineapple is not an apple, not all "beans" are beans. Perhaps the most remarkable of all the beans-that-are-not-really-beans are Mexican jumping beans, ...