ISSUE 99, GREAT PLANT BREEDERS, Part 9: Calvin Lamborn & the Sugar Snap Pea

Calvin Lamborn (1933-2017)

In winter 1979 the Burpee Seed Catalog featured a new introduction on its cover, the Sugar Snap Pea. Bred by Dr. Calvin Lamborn of the Gallatin Valley Seed Company in Idaho, the Sugar Snap became in a breathtakingly short time, the most popular new vegetable introduction of the last half of the twentieth century. It won one of …