Fen Peas Ltd was formed as a growers co-operative in 1968 by four farmers in the Boston area. In its early days the group grew 600 acres of peas supplying JS Frozen Foods, with the peas being processed at Christian Salvesen’s Easton plant. The company operated five trailed FMC viners running the operation 12 hours a day. During the 1970s Bill Belton and Alan Lenton joined and the acreage expanded slightly.
Today Fen Peas Ltd is growing 5200 acres of peas in Lincolnshire, from Waddington in the north, Holbeach in the east, Market Deeping in the south and Grantham in the east. The Company supplies Pinguin Lutosa UK (frozen peas), AP East Anglia (frozen peas) and two further specialist customers. All this from a grower base of 82 farmer members, using four modern PMC 979-CT harvesters.
Some of the grower base is long standing, others relatively new and some were part of other pea groups such as Rochford Tower Viners, Podded Peas, Holland Pea Growers, Deeping Peas, West Fen Peas and ASA Peas.
