I am still trying to find a local place to buy fifty pound bags of dried beans. The local whole foods wanted an arm and a leg for their beans.
You can usually get a GOOD price on pinto beans at a mexican market.
Looks like you can get a 50 pound bag from Honeyville right now for about $60.00 plus $4.49 shipping.
Beans are easy to grow even in a small space. If you have a fence, you’re halfway there. Eat, can and freeze them fresh. At the end of the season, let them dry on the vine for those dried beans. The dried beans are your seeds for next year or plant those from bags from the grocery store. Even the green beans you’ve let dry will make a pot of beans.