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Stringing

Summerhouse

Hopping morning

Poles

Hop picking

The oast

Prizewinners

Hoeing poppies

Poppies

Lavenders

Bramley's

Fruitcart

Owls

Stringing

Trevor Simmons 'stringing' the Summerhouse organic hop garden in 1988

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Summerhouse

The organic hop garden after stringing and training. The chestnul lewing is to keep the wind out once the hops are in crop

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Summerhouse

White mustard in full bloom in the Summerhouse. This is grown as a green manure crop and as a host to non pest aphids to attract predators into the hop garden

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Hopping morning

6am in the hop garden on a september 'hopping' morning

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Poles

<p>Polish brothers Yarek and Bogdan Nikelewski came hop picking here in 1980, the same year that Solidarity was born in the Gdansk shipyards</p>

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Hop picking

Organic hops are loaded out of the summerhouse hop garden

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The oast

<p>Stan Judge and Nick Simmons seated with Trevor Simmons and George Collins standing behind with one 'pocket' of the 1985 hop crop</p>

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Prizewinners

Peter Hall (3rd on the right) lines up with the other winners at the English hop competition in autumn 1988

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Hoeing poppies

In 1988, we grew a crop of opium popies for seed for the baking industry. We used a gang of our hop-trainers to hoe it by hand

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Poppies

The poppy crop in full bloom

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Lavenders

In 1988, our organic Worcester Pearmain orchard, 'Lavenders', was planted

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Bramley's

In 1984, a new Bramley apple orchard was planted. This is still in the ground today and still producing a fine crop

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Fruitcart

The old AEC Mercury lorry is used to cart fruit from the orchards to the cold stores during harvest

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Owls

A pair of Barn Owls in the rafters of the Georgian barn at Target Farm. 1988

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