A pea man’s tale
In just 83 years the pea harvesting process has progressed from a rather strange-looking wooden box structure, located in canning factories the length and breadth of the eastern side of the country, to state-of-the-art, mobile pieces of equipment that do pretty much the same job, but much more efficiently, and actually in the same field as the crop is grown.
The demand for garden peas on our plate – each of us consumes 6,000 peas a year on average – has driven the development of a quicker, more efficient and more cost-effective means of harvesting the garden pea crop.
This is the story of that journey,
