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Bold approach to salad production reaps rewards

Kent-based Thanet Earth is the UK’s leading salad producer. Jane Thynne visited to learn about the business which blends production with innovation and conservation

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Rob James and Sally Channon with the CLA Emsden Trophy the company won for its environmental and conservation work.
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Rob James and Sally Channon with the CLA Emsden Trophy the company won for its environmental and conservation work.

It is not often on a farm visit you are met by a security guard who asks to see your documentation and then directs you to a car park ‘about a mile' down the road. But Thanet Earth is not just your...

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