Can't help with the seed. The pack I bought has only 17 seeds. It is from Olds Seed sold on many hardware (Ace) and feed store racks in our area. Maybe someone around you carries Olds????? Your member page has a link at the top right that allows other members to email you through Garden Web without ever seeing your address. Looks like yours is set up for that. Some member pages do not have the link because the member did not set up an email link. They can change that by going to the bottom of any main forum page (waaaay to the bottom) and finding a link to "member services". They can then choose to edit their page and make the email option available. To complete the process they need to page to the bottom of the edit page and complete the stuff waaay down there. I think some may never see that part. I've heard some say they have trouble with the GW email. As far as I know it has worked well for me. Perhaps junk mail filters are throwing others messages into a spam box....or ???? I'll send you a test email so you know what it looks like.

Camp, I too cannot stand butter beans from a can nor frozen, these are just as terrible and overly large and tough as the green peas found in tv dinners, yuk. Wayne, thanks for the Fordhook bush tip but my bush days are over except for snaps (green beans) which is the best way to freeze large fresh batches at once. My back ain't what she used to be so my days bending over to pick BBs is behind me. Last year while I was expecting a dismal repeat of King of the Garden limas I planted Butter Peas bush variety as a back-up, these were productive and tasty but way too much effort bending over to harvest. Sticking to pole picking. PN, wonder what the heck happened to Sieva seed beans? If King of the Hill seed wasn't offered around here we'd have zero pole varieties on the market today. Wish too that I had saved some Sieva seed :(

Freezing is the preservation method of choice for ease (drying takes a LONG time) and best results when 'picked green'. Link below is to a current discussion on preserving them from over on the Harvest Forum here. But if you want to dry them then the Harvest Forum (focus is food preserving) also gives you links to drying instructions at NCHFP. Dave Here is a link that might be useful: Freezing Favas

I haven't grown or eaten fava beans either. They are one of the crops on my list of new things to try, once I move someplace where I can have a decent in-ground garden. I just took out Weaver's _Heirloom Vegetable Gardening_ and he says, "Young favas will withstand hard frosts, and some varieties are hardy to 12* F. In many places they can be overwintered by simply covering the plants with straw. The tops may die back, but the roots will sprout again in the spring. Since favas thrive in cool, damp weather - one reason why they do so well in England - it is far better to plant them early rather than later. Hot weather not only causes the flowers to drop, but also heralds black aphids, which attack favas ruthlessly." Sounds like favas would do very well wintersown.