What is "beanfields"

Usage examples of "beanfields".

In fact, Milagro itself was half a ghost town, and all the old west side beanfields were barren, because over thirty-five years ago, during some complicated legal and political maneuverings known as the 1935 Interstate Water Compact, much of Mi-lagro's Indian Creek water had been reallocated to big-time farmers down in the southeast portion of the state or in Texas, leaving folks like Joe Mondragon high and much too dry.

The land around was rumpled with low rolling hillocks and gentle dells, meadows, and beanfields cluttered with the spindly grey sentries of dead trees which marked the line of old hedgerows.

I brush the faces away and climb over the water, over the beanfields and thatched roofs, and I follow the singing of the star.

When this one was built, the vista had probably been smokestacks and beanfields.