This week’s featured variety is Cascadia Snap Pea. We’ve grown this pea every year of farm careers and have yet to find a better option.
It was bred by the late, great plant breeder Jim Baggett of Oregon State University. Jim bred disease resistance (pea wilt, powdery mildew, and pea enation mosaic virus) into Cascadia as well as several other excellent pea varieties, allowing peas to be grown all season long in the Pacific Northwest.
For fellow plant breeding nerds, check out this sweet little memoir of Jim’s life written by Carol Deppe. Cascadia has the juiciest, fattest pods of any snap pea out there.