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Service and beyond
First class, premium products and unbeatable service delivered by a family-run super dealership now spanning Essex, Kent, Sussex and East Hampshire.
Another one fights the dust
Famously known for supplying, servicing and repairing pressure washers across the South East, Pressure Clean is now able to supply the region’s farmers with a range of heavy-duty industrial vacuums.
Soil biology improved with no-till on Essex farm
Using a soil management system focusing on the health of the soil, its structure and biological activity is both interesting and profitable, writes Richard Shepherd-Barron.
Pressing forward
Nestled in the Kentish countryside on the outskirts of Lamberhurst sits Owl House Fruit Farm, home to one of the county’s first juice producers and finalist for the 2020 Taste of Kent Awards’ Farm Diversification of the Year Award, sponsored by South East Farmer.
A long-held dream
Nigel Akehurst visits Chartham Vineyard in Kent to learn more about their modern family focused approach to farm diversification and bringing their unique collection of heritage buildings back into use.
Yield linked to soil structure
“Soil is most important asset,” says Nick August who farms 400 hectares near Burford in Oxfordshire, writes Richard Shepherd-Barron.
Keeping it fraîche
The family-run dairy and processing facilities at Hinxden Farm near Benenden, Kent, have come a long way from the early days when John, Winifred and Thomasine Manford first started delivering one-pint glass bottles of untreated milk to friends and neighbours.
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