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This message is the summary to some questions I asked a few weeks ago.

Because I could not find fava beans, I asked if anyone tried using baby
lima beans instead of fava beans to mill.  the response was to tell me how
to find fava beans.

***One person finds them at "Whole Foods" both with or without the
skin/shell.

***Steve Rice of Authentic Foods sent me e-mail that said he sells them
and his phone # is 800-806-4737.  (I do not know what the price is for
these.)

***Another person gave me a warning about fava beans.  Their message was
this:  Last summer, during training at the Cornell Plantationsm (where I
give tours of the various gardens), I was in the vegetable gardens and
there, green and tall - well, anyway, green - were fava beans growing.
The interesting thing was that the plant looked nothing, and I mean
NOTHING like any bean plant I had ever seen.  It turns out that fava beans
are not of the bean family, but a completely different type of plant. You
might think of this as being the same as the difference between corn and
wheat.  I happen to react negatively to fava beans but to no other bean
and had never before been able to understand that.  So I suggest you try a
little bit of fava bean flour, or a few beans, and see whether or not you
have a negative reaction.  Just thought you might be interested.

***Look for Fava Beans at Italian or Greek Specialty Stores

My own research also tells that some people have bad reactions to fava
beans.  The reaction is called "favism."  As a side note to this I also
learned that most people can eat them without problem.  I have tried the
bean flour made from garbanzo beans (chickpeas) and fava (broad) beans.  I
really liked the food I baked with this flour.  Mine came from Authentic
Foods, according to Bette Hagman's book it is also available from a
company called Grain Process Enterprises, Ltd.  If you live near Grand
Rapids MI, I know you can find Fava Beans at Sami's Party Store.

I also asked what you use to make sweet rice flour.

I was told  three different names they are:  Sticky rice, glutinous rice
(which is gluten free) and short grain rice.  I found some sweet brown
rice in a food co-op.  It is short and more rounded.

Finally I asked what kind of brown rice you use to make brown rice flour.
Regular long grain brown rice works, but some people use organic brown
rice.

Susan