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Asparagus

Royal Gala

Hops

Oast

Pressing up

Hops

Hoppers

Oast

Arable

Restoration

Spider

Award

Millennium Avenue

Awards

Asparagus

Asparagus ridged up ready for the new season. Plums in full bloom behind the hedge in the background

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Royal Gala

JH and Trevor Simmons discussing the Royal Gala crop

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Hops

The bare organic hop garden after the crop has been gathered in 1993

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Oast

Trevor Simmons the, hop drier, checks the lump of dry hops prior to 'pressing up' the record 1994 crop into the huge 100kg 'pockets'

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Pressing up

Peter Hall's three sons Marcus, Hugo and Adam Hall get quite close enough as Trevor Simmons and his son Duncan press up the 1994 crop

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Hops

The record 1994 organic hop crop in the oast house awaiting despatch. The table in the foreground is laid with a hop sample and a set of brass sampling tools

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Hoppers

<p>The younger members of the East End hopping crew posing in the oast after a good afternoon at a local ploughing match in 1994. The great grandparents of two of this lot picked hops for Herbert before the first world war</p>

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Oast

A gang of hop pickers lark around in a kiln of green hops in 1999

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Arable

Our neighbour Rodert Day and his team plough, prepare the ground and drill a winter wheat crop in autumn 1996

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Restoration

Brian Maynard beats a hasty retreat as he fells a dead oak during the restoration of the pond in Hugo's platt

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Restoration

Colin Watts excavates years of leaf litter and mud during the restoration of the pond in Hugo's platt

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Restoration

The fully restored pond in Hugo's platt

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Spider

In the baking summer of 1993, spider mite devoured the whole of the organic hop crop. This is what happens when nature wins the organic battle!

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Award

Peter Hall receives the inaugural Worshipful Company of Fruiterers award from the Master of the Company,and Lord Mayor of London in 1999

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Millennium Avenue

Trevor Simmons and Peter Hall pictured with the newly planted Millennium Avenue.

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Millennium Avenue

<p>Trevor Simmonds and Peter Hall in the newly planted millennium Avenue copy</p>

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Awards

Peter receives The Emsden Cup from Lord Falmouth in 1999. This cup is awarded by the Country Landowners Association for outstanding contribution to wildlife conservation

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Awards

Peter Hall receives the 1999 Kent County Council's Wildlife Conservation award

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Awards

Kent County Council's Environment Awards for Business 1999

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