Take part in our #fiveadaythekentway selfie competition to win a juicer to make your own delicious and healthy fruit juices at home, or you can win an apple tree and National Fruit Show education visit for your school. To enter simply take a selfie with our apple cut out or…
Read MoreThe results of the Long-Term Farm Stored Fruit competition were announced at the Marden Fruit Show Society AGM on Wednesday 19 April 2023. Thank you to the sponsors of the competition Landseer Ltd, Wealden AM, Bloomfields Town Planners Ltd, Lambert & Foster Ltd and Isolcell S.P.A. Judging took place…
Read MoreBelow is the citation to accompany the presentation of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers’ Fruit Culture Award 2022 to Brian Tompsett at the National Fruit Show. Our congratulations to Brian who has been such a key part of the show judging for many years. "The Fruiterers’ Fruit Culture Award is…
Read MoreThe National Fruit Show winners for 2022 have been announced on day two of the show, Thursday 3 November at the Kent County Showground. Sarah Calcutt, Executive Chair of the National Fruit show comments. We were delighted to have received 95 entries from 22 growers. The National Fruit Show is…
Read MoreAhead of the show opening, Colin Bird judges one of the 109 entries in the 89th National Fruit Show. The Show opens Wednesday 2 November at the Kent County Showground, Maidstone. The competition is for commercial growers who produce for UK supermarkets, greengrocers and farmshops. One apple from each tray…
Read MoreTo support the National Fruit Show Educational Programme, major show sponsor and the UK’s longest-standing fruit and vine machinery specialists, NP Seymour, will be raffling off a Fendt 211 pedal tractor, worth £190. Claire Seymour, director of the family-run dealership and member of the National Fruit Show board of trustees…
Read MoreThe results of the Long Term Fruit Storage Competition for the 21/22 season were announced at the AGM of the National Fruit Show (Wednesday 6 April 2022). The winners by grower business and the prizes they scooped are: Name: A C Goatham & Son Class 22 Gala Joint 1st Place…
Read MoreThe annual competitions for the Tastiest Apple and the Tastiest Tomato were held in Kent from 21st-22nd October at the 76th National Fruit Show. The whole length of the exhibition of show fruit – Norman Collett one of the three principal sponsors in the background. Hadlow College, Norman Collett and…
Read MoreThe Walnut class at the National Fruit Show is organised by the Walnut Club. Entries are invited from both commercial and amateur growers. Entries must consist of eight nuts in their shells unbleached. This year the class is being sponsored for the first time by Kent food company Opies. Opies…
Read MoreAfter the National Fruit Show, which has been taking place in Kent since 1933, the stunning display of prize-winning apples and pears will again be travelling to promote the top fruit industry to Saturday shoppers. Show Chairman, Jeremy Scott says, “this year we are off to Hampshire, ‘setting up our…
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