{"id":674759,"date":"2026-07-05T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674759\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:00:11","slug":"how-wimbledon-is-supplied-with-iconic-strawberries-from-kent-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674759\/","title":{"rendered":"How Wimbledon is supplied with iconic strawberries from Kent farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), which runs the Grand Slam event, sources its strawberries from Hugh Lowe Farms in Mereworth, Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family farm has delivered several tons of fruit to SW19 every year for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s probably the most photographed berry on the planet and so we&#8217;re really conscious of making sure that people get the right iconic treat when they go to Wimbledon,&#8221; said Amelia McLean, of the fifth generation to work on the farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the BBC that growing conditions so far in 2026 &#8220;meant that everything has ripened up really perfectly&#8221; and produce &#8220;should have really good quality&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), which runs the Grand Slam event, sources its strawberries from Hugh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}