Started picking Fava beans last week. The crop is wonderful so far this year. Supposed to have mighty storms come thru today with high winds (possibly tornados and hail and lots of rain) We flooded last month and I left Mother Nature's ditch down thru the gardens...so she can take the same path again if she likes without destroying other parts of it. The fava beans are hanging full of all sizes of development...pray you all for protection > This is the best crop I have ever had and I am doing more experiments with it for ;-dopa. Professors from ETSU School of Pharmacology are coming Friday afternoon to look at my research...perhaps one of them or a student will take on the project of documenting and testing l-dopa in what I have made so far. PRAY YOU-ALL! Love, Aunt Bean