Wild field - an experiment

Today from the curiosity and for the experiment, we put six kinds (3 seeds of each one) of Tepary bean /Paiute Mixed, Joreme White, Cocopah White, Big Fields Brown, Brown Speckled, San Pablo Balleza/ to the ground in the abandoned field area.

Field is in the full sun for the all day, so the conditions are almost like on the desert. The soil is very poor, actually it is only sand.

We made six circles, got rid of weeds at these spots and plant three seeds of one kind of teparies in each circle.

We water them for the first and last time ... and now we will wait and observe what will happen...

 Friday, February 18, 2011  -------------------------  3 weeks later

Today I took a look at the wild field to check if any tepary bean came out at these hard conditions. And there was a nice surprise! One seed of Paiute Mixed pop out from the ground. 

As I noticed during the observation of green house on the rooftop, Paiute Mixed is one of the fastest, easiest and strongest kind of the tepary bean so far.

Paiute Mixed

 Friday, March 11, 2011  -------------------------  6 weeks later

Surprisingly, one more seed came out! That how they look like after 1 and 1/2 month:

Teparies' race 2

Four days later since the last photo shoot, all seeds made a progress and some of them are starting to develop leaves...

Santa Rosa Brown

Santa Rosa Brown

Kickapoo White

Kickapoo White

Brown Speckled

Brown Speckled

Brown Speckled

Brown Speckled

Cumpas

Cumpas

Type 2 diabets (T2D) & Tepary bean

A TEPARY BEAN DIET AND EXERCISE DELAYS INDICES OF TYPE 2 DIABETS IN FEMALE FA/FA RATS

International research  (USA and Canada) in 2007 has proven significant role of tepary bean in diet. Their results indicate that tepary bean diet, with exercise, can decrase typical changes in weight gain, glycemic regulation and lipid profile. The adoption of tepary bean diet with exercise program in individuals showing signs of type 2 diabets would also likely serve to protect against psychological changes.

Research has been conducted on forty female Fatty Zucker (fa/fa) rats,
which were assigned to one of four treatment groups:
1) tepary bean diet and exercise
2) tepary bean diet
3) purified control diet and exercises
4) purified control diet



Legumes have been shown to protect against the development of type 2 diabets (T2D).

The study present an evidence of three main findings:
1. A tepary bean diet combined with exercise, despite 37% of calories from fat, results in significantly less weight gain and mean body mass compared with fa/fa rats who were fed either a tepary bean diet alone, or control diet with or without exercise.
2. Exercise and the consumption of a tepary bean diet results in significantly lower insulin concentration compared to control fed animals (...)
3. A tepary bean diet, with or without exercise, results in significantly lower serum triglicerides and cholesterol relative to animals fed the control diet.

The tepary bean diet combined with exercise, in fa/fa rats, results in significantly lower body mass and a decreased rate of weight gain compared to rats fed either a tepary bean diet alone or a control diet with or without exercise.
Research shown that rats fed a tepary bean diet have 19% less fat mass compared to control fed animals and that rats who are exercised and fed tepary bean have 30% less fat than control fed animals who were also exercised!

Those study also shown that tepary beans are effective for curbing body mass and fat accumulation in an animal model that is genetically prone to obesity.



Article: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/31043215/A-tepary-bean-diet-and-exercise-delays-indices-of-type-2-diabetes

Teparies race

Today, after 5 days in the soil I was able to see first germinating seeds. The race has started and be continued...

Tohono O'odham White seed has started timidly...

Tohono O'odham White

The same way continue Sacaton Brown...

Sacaton Brown

... but the most courage and fastest is the Santa Rosa Brown seed...

Santa Rosa Brown

How to plant teparies

According to the Native Seeds description seed should be planted 1/2 inch deep and 4 inches apart with the summer rains. If rains are sparse, irrigate when the plants look stressed. Teparies do not tolerate overwatering.

Today Steve prepared a ground next to the border wall in La Casa del Tunel, Tijuana, Mexico. The soil is rich with compost. For project he created beautiful, perfect beds for our little guys.

Happy bean's gardener

Steve making rows

We have got 15 vertical rows against the wall. We water a soil a bit before putting seeds. In each row we plant 8 seeds of the particular kind of tepary bean. After that we water them. The last step was to put a fence to protect bean garden from animals and unwary people.

The last step - a fence

ECO-GREEN HOUSE:
O the rooftop of La Casa del Tunel is a great place for greenhouse. To create a greenhouse we reused plactic trays from the mursery school. It's also an eco-movment, because they get rid all of trays after first use!
We put seeds into the trays. First we made newspaper cups (vine bottles are perfect to do it! Just roll paper around a bottle and bend it on the bottom) and put them to the holes in the trays.

Then we filled them with mixed soil.
The soil was mixed in the bucket and included:

• 1/2 bucket of the potting soil
• 1/2 bucket of compost
• 3 cups of Perlite
• 1/2 cup of fertilize (Xtreme Gardening company)

What is worth to notice we planted tepary bean during the full moon. 

At each tray we plant two varieties of tepary (8 seeds of one kind) and water them. To add more heat and make conditions more like on the desert, we covered trays with plastic panels.

 
And here is additional little garden with vegetables...