[Sacajaweau]

I would walk down the path to the swing and sit with my grandmother while she shucked peas. The walkway was cool...an arbor covered with grape vines for 300 ft.

I later took my toddler daughter down the same path and we all sat on the swing.

For years, after my grandmother passed, I would go to the local farm market and pick peas.

Now I grow my own. I'm 78.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

At my other farm, the 400 acres or so surrounding me were commercial fields for the local canning company. They used a piece of my land as an easement to get machinery in and out, so I got to know the guys pretty well after living there for 25 years.

The years they grew peas were always my favorite, second only to sweet corn. I have shucked a LOT of peas too, LOL! The head guy who came by to check for ripeness would always give me a Heads Up and they would let me pick whatever I wanted a few days prior before they started harvesting. It was pretty awesome. :)

I always left the Lima Beans alone though, LOL!