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(Vigna unguiculata)
Cowpeas are very easy to grow, colorful and tasty. Very popular in the Southern U.S., Africa and Asia. They are great picked young for use as green snap beans, and stir-fried or boiled. A favorite crop here at our farm. They also make a great cover crop, to choke weeds and put nitrogen in the soil. Plant like regular beans. 30-75 seeds per packet.
Black Crowder
70 days. Very long pods give huge yields of beautiful purple peas that turn black as they dry. Easy to shell; popular.

Item Code: CW104 Out of Stock
Blue Goose (Gray Crowder)
36" vines produce purple-gray peas with up to 20 in a pod! A rare old southern heirloom (pre-1860). Great for table use.

Item Code: CW103  
$2.50
Bohemian
70 DAYS. This heirloom was brought to America by immigrants from Prague in the early 1800s. Small vining bushes produce delicious small white peas, cream-colored flowers.

Item Code: CW139  
$2.50
California Blackeye Pea
70 days. An old standard variety; vigorous, high-yielding vines. Thomas Jefferson grew Blackeye Peas in the 1770s. Originating in Africa, cowpeas are easy to grow and are very popular in the South; a very ancient crop.

Item Code: CW108  
$1.50
Carrapichio
Good yields of Khaki-colored peas and long pods. An attractive pea that is very rare and uniquely colored.

Item Code: CW130  
$2.50
Gray-Speckled Palapye Cowpeas seeds Gray-Speckled Palapye
Flavorful, gray-speckled peas in large pods; very early and perfect for the North. From a market in Palapye, Botswana. Rare.

Item Code: CW107  
$2.50
Green Eyed Pea
Very rare, Missouri heirloom is larger than the standard Blackeye pea. The peas are named for their "green-colored eye" on each seed. We have finally procured some seed for this great variety.

Item Code: CW143  
$2.50
Haricot Rouge du Burkina-Faso
An heirloom from Burkina-Faso, West Africa. Colorful, redpurple pods have deep red seeds. This pretty variety produces well even in extreme conditions.

Item Code: CW117  
$2.50
Jet Black
Long vines produce solid black peas. Excellent in rice dishes, this fine old variety pre-dates 1850 in the Southern U.S., but it was believed to have been rediscovered in South Africa.

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Kentucky
A favorite of Amish grower Mr. Brubaker of Rich Hill, Missouri. He received this heirloom from his grandfather of Scottsville, Kentucky. It produces extra long, green-purple pods that are filled with fat, red peas with brown speckles. Productive plants yield all season.

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Lady Peas
The tiny and popular, but hard to find, white lady pea. They are superbly flavored and tender. The short plants are great for small gardens and the yields are high. An old-fashioned favorite.

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Mayo Colima
75 days. Mixed-color peas, gray, gray-mottled, or orange/tan-mottled. Seed from this variety was collected from the low desert of Los Capomos, Sinaloa, Mexico, from a Mayo village.

Item Code: CW134  
$2.50
Mississippi Silver Hull Cowpeas seeds Mississippi Silver Hull
A heavy-producing runner type that is very popular in the South. Very large tan beans, fairly early. Also produces in the North.

Item Code: CW131 Out of Stock
Monkey Tail     New!
Hardy, rambling vines produce extra-long pods with unusual cocoa/tan-colored beans. From the UCD Seed Saving Project, collected in Africa.

Item Code: CW147  
$2.50
Myrtle's
An Appalachian heirloom from eastern Kentucky. Named for Myrtle Bates, who can remember her grandmother cooking these more than 60 years ago. Semi-compact, bush plants produce delicious, dark tan-colored peas.

Item Code: CW137  
$2.50
Old Timer or Purple Hull Speckled
Short, bush plants produce colorful purple 7" pods that are filled with medium-sized, tan peas that have dark speckles. A fine variety that's good for small gardens.

Item Code: CW138  
$2.50
Ozark Razorback     New!
The most beautiful pea we grow; the peas are mottled half white and half red. Very productive bush plants that set on loads of tasty small peas. This fine variety was developed by Horus Botanicals of Salem, Arkansas.

Item Code: CW148  
$2.50
Penny Rile Cowpeas seeds Penny Rile
80 days. Khaki-tan color, medium-sized peas; heavy yields. The peas are great for soup. Mr. Martin's family grew these vines to feed their livestock and as a food source for the family to help with long winters.

Item Code: CW116  
$2.50
Purple Hull Pinkeye Cowpeas seeds Purple Hull Pinkeye
70 days. The preferred variety of many Southerners; delicious flavor. Hulls are purple; an old favorite.

Item Code: CW109  
$2.00
Rattlesnake     New!
A nice, flavorful, old variety that was collected from the mountains of Kentucky. The peas are a colorful red and white bi-color. The 6' vines produce lots of 7" pods.

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Rice Pea Cowpeas seeds Rice Pea
Tiny white seeds are just larger than rice and cook in 40 minutes. Very tasty. Bush plants yield well. A pre-1860 Southern cowpea

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Six Week Purple Hull
An early Pink Eye, Purple Hull type, produces lots of tasty cream-colored seeds that have a "pink eye." Small plants and reddish-purple pods. Sent to us by a customer.

Item Code: CW145  
$2.50
Stick Up
80 days. Pods tend to "Stick Up" on the vines, hence the name. This heirloom was once popular in French Fork, Louisiana, and it helped the local people of the area get through the Great Depression. Small brown seed.

Item Code: CW129  
$2.50
Sugar Cream
Delicious, cream-colored peas are great dried or as snaps. Robust, yellow flowered vines produce heavy yields of this southern heirloom that has been grown for generations.

Item Code: CW146 Out of Stock
Turkey Craw
Vining, old-fashioned variety that produces long, maroon and white peas.

Item Code: CW133  
$2.50