by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Nov 19, 2010 | peas
Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 US https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons English Peas (P. sativum) encompass edible pod peas, snow peas, and sugar peas. In my area of Texas, we plant peas in February with the other...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Nov 19, 2010 | peas
Black-eyed peas have many names. They are called field peas, Southern peas, cowpeas, crowder peas, and some 50 other names. Whatever the name, up until the Civil War, black-eyed peas were grown primarily to feed cattle. Some may have been eaten by slaves, but free...