Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Field peas, unlike green peas, are heirloom beans with diverse flavors and textures. Southern communities value field peas for ...

A farmer might call them cowpeas. A grocer might call them black-eyed peas. A restaurant waitress might call them field peas. But they are all talking about the same vegetable — the southern pea. If ...

Stephanie Hughes took photos of the emerging crowder peas — a Southern delicacy — that she's attempting to grow in her garden. (Submitted photo) Growing up in the Southern summers, there was one thing ...

Field peas are the South's most varied legume, but many cooks never venture past black-eyed peas and might not realize there are other choices. We should, however. Although black-eyed peas are good, ...

When you say “pea” to most gardeners in the world, they think of “English” peas that thrive in cool moist environments. But to most Southerners, a hot weather legume from Africa, more related to beans ...