The Marden Fruit Show Society has appointed Maria Clarke to the post of Show Secretary for the National Fruit Show. Maria Clarke and Jeremy ScottMaria has previously worked in marketing and public relations most recently at the Port of Sheerness in Kent, one of the UK’s major handlers of imported fruit into the UK. She […]

Over 3000 Kent Primary School children were given the chance to try different varieties of British fruit and juice at the Living Land event at the Kent Showground (7th May). Gala and Braeburn apple-tastingThe Marden Fruit Show Society stand offered samples of Gala, Braeburn, Rubens and Russet apples as well as Conference and Comice pears. […]

Visitors to this year’s National Fruit Show will have the chance to win £1,000 worth of fruit trees, together with a magnum of Champagne in a free draw at the JR Breach stand. The lucky winner can choose from the “old favourites”: Bramley, Cox and Conference or from the new range of varieties and sports […]

The 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 BASF are key sponsors and […]

The new Show President is the Right Honourable Michael Jack MP. No stranger to the fruit industry, working in produce before he became a parliamentarian, Mr Jack has been a Minister of Horticulture and is at present Chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. Michael Jack MP checks out this year’s cropOn […]

The 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 MD, William Opie says: “Each […]

After 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 stall’ at the Festival Place […]

The 76th National Fruit Show – being held at the Kent County Showground, Detling, near Maidstone on 21-22 October – is sold out. The trade stand space has had to be expanded into the Hendry building to accommodate new machinery exhibitors. Trade support has been as good as ever, with over 90 companies booking space […]

Paramour Farm, Highland Court Farms, near Canterbury, Kent was the 2009 lucky winner of the National Fruit Show Bonanza prize. Every year the Bonanza Prize rewards the best entries to the apple and pear competitions with the chance to win a fabulous trip to learn more about different aspects of the fruit industry. The award […]

Judges have decided to jointly award the first prize in the coveted Long Term Farm Stored (LTFS) Cox class to two Kent fruit farms this year – J L Baxter & Son and F W Mansfield & Son. The prize money for the LTFS Cox class is sponsored by STS Refrigeration Ltd and the Trophy […]