“We don’t hire women to make bean soup – we make bean soup to hire more women. The more product we can sell, the more women we can employ. The more people we reach, the more women we’re able to help, and the more lives we’re able to positively impact. How powerful is that?”
The mission of Women’s Bean Project is to change women’s lives by providing stepping stones to self-sufficiency through social enterprise. Each product has a story behind the hands of the woman who spent hours packaging it with precise measuring, adding ingredients, scooping, labeling, sealing, boxing it up, hand signing it and shipping it. For each purchase you make, you’re providing hope and a chance for a woman to earn her future through the skills she gains at Women’s Bean Project.
Founded in 1989, Women’s Bean Project is an anomaly in the business world. It is a business, one that packages and sells bean soup mixes, baking mixes and other dry food products to stores across the U.S. and online. But tucked inside this business is a human services organization designed to provide a safe and accepting work environment where impoverished women can learn the skills required for gainful employment.
They are convicted felons, recovering addicts, victims of domestic violence. Many were teenage mothers and high school drop outs. They come to work for a chance to create new lives out of the rubble theirs have become – and they do it in just six to nine months. That the Women’s Bean Project trains women to become great workers only so they can leave and become great workers for other employers is remarkable and challenging.
What Products Do We Carry at Harvest Market?
10 Bean Soup Mix
This colorful mix of beans and a hint of oregano, rosemary and thyme among the seasonings give this nutritious 10 bean soup its festive presentation and hearty flavor. Add diced vegetables, crushed tomatoes, minced garlic and ham, and call family and friends to the table. Easy to follow directions and recipe variations included for making a big pot of 7 meal-size servings. Women’s Bean Project’s 10 Bean Soup Mix is easy to prepare with all premium seasonings and other dry ingredients included for making homemade-tasting soup. (This mix was formerly named Toni’s 10 Bean Soup Mix.). By far one of our most popular soup mixes and a customer favorite since 1989. Grown in the USA and Colorado Proud. Kosher certified.
What you’ll need: contents of box, 7 cups broth or water, 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes, 2-3 cloves minced garlic. Optional: diced vegetables, 1 lb. diced ham. Remove spice packet and soak beans (12 hours) or microwave (15 min) in water. Follow cooking instructions on box. 7 servings per package. Also great in an Instant Pot® or slow cooker.
Ingredients: polished black beans, black eye peas, green split peas, brown lentils, great northern beans, pinto beans, red lentils, small red chili beans, yellow split peas, garbanzo beans, parsley, salt, dehydrated vegetables (garlic, spinach, tomato, onion), spices (celery seed, white pepper, basil, oregano, rosemary, red pepper, thyme, tarragon), paprika and turmeric (for color).
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Old Fashioned Chili Mix
Old Fashioned Chili MixThis red chili is mildly spiced with cumin, chili powder and parsley. Add crushed tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, garlic and your favorite meat for an easy-to-make recipe. Easy to follow directions and recipe variations included for making a big pot of 7 meal-size servings. Women’s Bean Project’s Old Fashioned Chili Mix is easy to prepare with all premium seasonings and other dry ingredients included for making homemade-tasting chili. Grown in the USA and Colorado Proud. Kosher certified.
What you’ll need: contents of box, 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes, 1 diced onion, 1 diced bell pepper, 2 cloves minced garlic and 1 1/2 tbsp. olive oil. Optional: 1 lb. turkey or ground beef. Remove spice packet and soak (12 hours) or microwave (15 min) beans in water. Follow cooking instructions on box. 7 servings per package. Also great in an Instant Pot® or slow cooker.
Ingredients: small red chili beans, spices (cumin, chili powder, parsley), and salt.
With each purchase, you’re helping women break the cycle of poverty and chronic unemployment. Thanks for your support in helping the Women’s Bean Project change lives!
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