Navy Bean is a web comic by a cartoonist called Melange. The strip is based on an anthropomorphic bean with a skull cap named Navy Bean. Navy Bean is the host of a children's TV program. It can currently be found at www.gocomics.com
Frequent guests include the Floating Head of Wilfred Brimely, the Misplaced Aggression of Lee Marvin, Fun-Fun: the Telepathetic Dog that Sounds Like Nathan Lane, The Abandoned Toupee of Ben Affleck and The Too Small Face of Matt Damon among others.
The strip frequently attacks Hollywood celebrities like John Travolta and writers like Ann Coulter.
The creator, Melange, is the pseudonym for a Dutchmen named Dolph de Poonst.
Perhaps beans were thought to be a potent deterrent against evil because as a seed they have stored within them the positive life force of all living and growing things.
Bean pods are effective in lowing blood sugar levels and can be used (with the concurrence of a doctor) for mild cases of diabetes.
Bean pod tea is useful for dropsy, sciatica, chronic rheumatism, kidney and bladder problems, uric acid accumulations, and loss of albumin in the urine during pregnancy.
A brief look at the history of bean breeding at MAES and the substantial contributions in variety development that have been made over the last century are summarized by decade or year in the attached tables.
Diversification became the cry of the bean industry in the 1980's and as result, varieties were developed by the author in pinto and great northern commercial classes to meet that demand.
In order to adapt pinto and great northern beans to Michigan, upright plant architecture was incorporated into both types as traditional varieties grown in the western states all possessed a decumbent viney growth habit that increased significantly their risk to diseases and weather related losses during harvest.
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