This Issue's Featured Article
Sugar Snap Peas
In the vast history of food and farming, green peas (Pisum sativum) are an ancient crop. But the sweet, succulent sugar snap pea that we enjoy today is a recent innovation, thanks to a Utah-born plant breeder named Calvin Lamborn. In 1969, while working for the Gallatin Seed Company near Twin Falls, Idaho, Lamborn crossed an unusual thick-podded shelling pea with a snow pea, resulting in a tender pea with a crisp, edible pod. After a decade of...
