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This year’s Fruit Focus has everything that a fruit grower needs to improve yield and productivity in the coming seasons: knowledge exchange, purchasing and information-gathering opportunities, networking and a fun. News from the Vineyard: While there is undoubtedly an art to making wine, one Sussex vineyard has gone further by putting art at the centre of its entire operation. Show results: Livestock areas were buzzing at Heathfield and South of England shows. Nigel Akehurst visits... Biddenden Vineyards in Kent to take part in a planting day hosted by owners the Barnes family, who have been growing vines and making wine on their 65-acre family farm since 1969.