Eden Michigan Navy Beans.

Eden Michigan navy beans, immature pods.

Eden Organic Garbanzo field Aquila, Arizona.

Garbanzo beans, delicate and graceful with fuzzy swollen
seedpods of one or two seeds per pod. When ready
for harvest the leaves and pod are brown.

Totes of dried beans and bisphenol-A free cans
at Meridian Foods cannery Eaton, Indiana.

Stacked pallets of custom made bisphenol-A free steel cans.

Pinto Beans are washed and soaked overnight in filtered well water.

Eden Organic Pinto Beans leaving the steam blancher prior to canning.

Beans are visually inspected after the blancher
and before the filler at the bottom right.

Blanched Eden Organic Pintos in the filler.

Cans moving to the filler for beans, liquid, and seasonings.

Sealed cans in steel baskets are hoisted into
vertical retort cookers (pressure cookers),
after which they're cooled, labeled, and boxed.