Tiny green peas pack an impressive amount of nutritional benefits to help keep you feeling full and strong. Although we tend to think of them as vegetables, peas are technically legumes, registered ...

If there's one thing that marks the beginning of spring, it's peas! (Oh—and asparagus, rhubarb, and carrots, of course). Okay, so there's tons of spring produce to enjoy once the weather starts to ...

People love making pea soup for the warmth and comfort that the dish provides, but many home cooks get hung up on what kind ...

Peas very well might be my favorite vegetable - they at least make the top five - and with the arrival of spring, fresh peas are available in abundance. While I almost always have a bag of frozen peas ...

If you’re the kind of gardener who likes to get out early in the spring to start growing vegetables well before your last frost, you’ll likely love growing peas. Peas prefer cool weather! I was ...

USDA Agricultural Research Service geneticist Rebecca McGee can hold her new winter peas in one hand, and spring peas in the other, and not tell the difference. “Before, the winter peas were very ...

We all love legumes—that French name sounds fancy and they taste delicious. OK…we didn’t actually know beans about ‘em until we did some research and put together a thorough guide on the subject. Here ...

My favorite type of pea is snap peas eaten fresh off the vine — a perennial kid favorite, too. I’ve never intentionally grown shelling peas. I prefer growing things where I can eat most of what I grow ...

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In many parts of the country, fresh spring peas are already in the markets. (The season starts on the West Coast and extends through mid-summer on the East Coast and Midwest.) This is cause for ...