Turkey Craw Beans are pole beans, whose plant grows 8 to 10 feet (2 ½ to 3 metres) tall.The 4 inch (10 cm) pods are a stringless green bean. Turkey Craw Beans are also good as a shelling bean; and some say it is actually best as a shelling bean.
Turkey Craw Beans are easy to pod.
Turkey Craw Beans can also be used for drying. The beans are a mottled and light brown. There is also a mottled black variant.
Storage Hints
Turkey Craw Beans freeze well as green beans.
History Notes
Turkey Craw Beans were popular in North Carolina, Virginia, and particularly in Tennessee, United States.
Literature & Lore
Turkey Craw Beans is another bean said to have been found inside a bird (this time, a turkey.)