Rancho Gordo specializes in heirloom beans and products indigenous to the Americas. Our fresh-harvest beans, grains, and herbs celebrate traditional foods with superior flavor. We work with small farms to preserve agricultural diversity while offering exceptional ingredients for both home and professional cooks.| Rancho Gordo
Heirloom Beans. Heritage variety. Crop straight from Europe into your pantry. Giant, fat, white runner beans similar to Greek and Spanish gigande| Rancho Gordo
From heirloom Italian seed, this thin-skinned cannellini is named after Italian cooking hero, Marcella Hazan, who encouraged our growing it. A delicate tribute to a mighty force of nature. Marcella beans are grown in California from Italian Sorana seedstock. Sorana is a cannellini bean with incredibly thin skin and wh| Rancho Gordo
Our friend John Monks is an anesthesiologist by day and food-obsessed host by night (and weekends). I don't know anyone who takes making good food for his friends more seriously. Luckily for us, he's Bean People and loves to come with good dishes using Rancho Gordo. This dish was originally his contribution to a grou| Rancho Gordo
Heirloom Beans tend to have a lower yield and can be much more difficult to grow but the pay off is in the unique flavors and textures that you don't find with bland commodity beans. You can find a list of our waitlist beans here.| Rancho Gordo