Best Vegetable Bean Soup (with optional dumplings) – Orange Tree Lane

Ingredients

• 6 carrots (scrubbed and chopped into 1/2" rounds)
• 4 stalks celery (cut horizontally and then 1/2" thick chunks)
• 1 onion (diced)
• 2 garlic clove(s) (crushed)
• 7 cup(s) broth (any will do)
• 28 oz(s) navy beans (or great northern, rinsed)
• 14 oz(s) kidney beans (rinsed)
• 2 -- tomato(es) (1/2" chunks or smaller)
• 6 cup(s) mustard greens (slice and chop fine)
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 3 tbsp parsley (divided)