Texas Highways Magazine

Proud Peas

On a typical day, Peggy Galloway navigates traffic-clogged streets as a bus operator in Houston. But today she’s making her way through an East Texas field, snapping purple hull peas from leafy vines. “Pick and pull,” she tells herself as the bag gets fatter and fatter. “Pick and pull.”

Displaying a technique she learned decades ago on an uncle’s farm, Galloway picked

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