Easy step by step instructions on how to freeze fresh green beans without blanching. These green beans will last up to a year. You can use them in casseroles, soups, stir fry and more! Recipe: https://brooklynfarmgirl.com/easy-way-to-freeze-green-beans-without-blanching/ | Brooklyn Farm Girl

❗️Harvest Tip: Freeze your beans for at least 72 hrs before storing. ~ The nasty little bugs that chewed holes in these scarlet runner beans are bean weevils. As an experiment, we put these beans in a jar when we harvested them a month ago without freezing them first. 🪲 Bean weevil eggs are tiny and when you harvest dried beans there is no trace. However, the eggs will later hatch to enjoy your beans. ❄️ When you harvest dried beans, freezing them for 72 hrs will kill any weevil eggs or larvae

Green juice (without a juicer!) 🥒🥬🍋 Freeze the leftover pulp in ice cube trays and add to smoothies 🥤 Here’s what we used to make this batch: 2 big handfuls of spinach (~2 cups) 3-4 stalks celery 1/2 of a large cucumber 1-2 apples (add 1 for less sweet, 2 for more sweet) 2-inch piece of ginger 1/2 cup parsley Juice from 1-2 lemons (I personally prefer extra lemon in mine, but start with 1 and adjust at the end) Optional: a pinch of salt to balance the flavors Water (we used ~1 1/2 cups, you