Four years ago I wrote about leather britches here. 5 or 6 years ago my mom and I started the process of sourcing our seeds from a cousin. 115 years ago my Aunt Laura was given the seeds. Who knows how long they were carefully saved and transported from homesite to homesite before that. In between 1895 or so and now various members of my family have grown the seed. This past week I was able to serve a mess of beans to my mom and she said they were just like she remembered from long ago. That my friends is success.