A quick report on this Norwegian pea.
It has grown to about 1.5m and produced prolifically. It is sweet and tasty. The pods and peas are surprisingly tiny.
An aspect which interests me is the background and history. It is now protected by Arca del Gusto who give a detailed account at https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/e...n-pea-jaerert/
As it was omitted from accounts of growing in the region of Jaeren after which it is named it’s assumed it was a low status food and in fact it almost died out by the 1950s but was kept going by a single dedicated grower.
What strikes me in this context is how small the yield is for the time taken to pick and pod the peas as they are so small. As mangetout or snap they seem to give a more feasible and worthwhile harvest but as podded peas they seem likely to have been the food of the desperate, the dedicated or those with plenty of time! In fact, as it’s thought that they were harvested with the corn they were grown with, it seems that they were probably most often used as dried peas.
The photos show the Jaerert pods by medium sized pea pods.


It has grown to about 1.5m and produced prolifically. It is sweet and tasty. The pods and peas are surprisingly tiny.
An aspect which interests me is the background and history. It is now protected by Arca del Gusto who give a detailed account at https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/e...n-pea-jaerert/
As it was omitted from accounts of growing in the region of Jaeren after which it is named it’s assumed it was a low status food and in fact it almost died out by the 1950s but was kept going by a single dedicated grower.
What strikes me in this context is how small the yield is for the time taken to pick and pod the peas as they are so small. As mangetout or snap they seem to give a more feasible and worthwhile harvest but as podded peas they seem likely to have been the food of the desperate, the dedicated or those with plenty of time! In fact, as it’s thought that they were harvested with the corn they were grown with, it seems that they were probably most often used as dried peas.
The photos show the Jaerert pods by medium sized pea pods.
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