Sir James Dyson’s high tech farming venture has turned to an East Yorkshire horticultural specialist to deliver a huge expansion in Lincolnshire.
An £11 million second phase of a successful strawberry growing operation has launched, with CambridgeHOK behind the original six-hectare glasshouse, delivered in 2020. The Newport team will add a further 4.7 hectares at the site in Carrington, where 750 tonnes of the fruit are now being produced for British consumers.
The celebrated inventor and business magnate added agricultural interests to his engineering stable, with interests in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire too. At the site near Boston the latest technology and advanced growing systems are used to lengthen the British strawberry season, now stretching from early spring and into late autumn.
