The Monroe Journal in Monroe, North Carolina

Velvet beans promise food and soil help for Monroe area

An unsigned letter to the editor urges Monroe to wake up and seize local opportunities while recounting a banker’s cautious warning, a successful investor, and a surge of interest in the 100 Day Speckled Velvet bean as a versatile crop. It extols velvet beans as a superior table bean and soil improver, noting high yields, nitrogen fixing, and benefits when grown with corn and peanuts.