The true American Pickers – three generations of them in fact, had some long rows ahead of them early one morning this summer. Picking that many beans and then snapping them will give you some fine callouses – I can vouch for that.

Young Tory can hold her own picking beans with the best of them - including her mother and grandmother.

Bushels of beans turned into more than 60 quarts in a day or two. Come winter time, these beans will remind us of that sweltering morning in July.

Fifteen-or-so iPhone photos stitched in the AutoStitch App.