Zolfini Beans

Historically grown in the Arezzo province of Tuscany, these small beans get their name from their sulphury yellow hue (zolfo is Italian for sulphur). Zolfini beans have been used as a symbol of resistance to globalization and industrialization of the food system. At the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999, Paolo de Castro, the Italian minister of Agriculture, brought in a bag of Zolfini beans and waved them around to bring attention to the threat that global trade had on cultural tradition and legacy.  These beans are part of our foray into honoring the "collective" in Boonville Barn Collective. Zolfini beans were grown on our farm in Boonville and by Sammy Tookey of Tookey Farms in Healdsburg, CA. Our team harvested the beans and brought them back to Boonville to thresh, clean, and get them bagged up. Your purchase of these beans helps support small family farmers in 2 California counties working together to use scale appropriate agricultural equipment to produce shel