The Tarbais bean has several particularities: first it grows on 2 different tutors, a tutor on traditional maize and a tutor on a net, it depends on the choice of the producer like our guest who chose the net for him in the town of Azereix. It is the only white bean to be doubly labeled.
– FB Bearn Bigorre Isabelle Young
The Haricot Tarbais was the bean of the poor. In 1850 there were up to 18,000 hectares of beans on maize. It was called the Marcadieu bean in reference to the market.
It was at the beginning of the 1980s that this little bean emerged from anonymity, a handful of producers decided on specifications for a defined, quality product. Today the Interprofessional Association of Tarbais Beans (AIHT) has 60 producers committed to the Label Rouge and IGP approach who cultivate 140 hectares spread over 36 cantons. Each year, between 150 and 200 tons of Tarbais beans are harvested. This year will not give this volume, says Jean-Marc Bedouret.
To find out more and buy this little bean that drives chefs crazy, the Haricot Tarbais awaits you here.