Here's how to grow chickpeas for homemade hummus, chana masala, and more. Grigorenko / Getty Images Chickpeas have been grown as a food crop for at least 7,500 years. Growers still cultivate chickpeas in pots or vegetable beds and harvest the edible beans in late summer for fresh eating, freezing, canning, or drying. Whether you call them chickpeas or garbanzo beans, these protein-packed legumes...