A band of Jersey growers will cross the Channel to promote Jersey produce at the Three Counties Agricultural Societies Malvern Autumn Garden & County Show for the first time this autumn.
Thirty growers - all members of the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society (RJAHS) - decided to exhibit at the event after a practice-run stand at the Royal Jersey Autumn Show last year won the praise of RHS judge David Matthewman and TCAS tradestands manager Doreen Smillie.
RJAHS vegetable grower Graeme Le Marquand, who enlisted the help of the growers, said: “ Jersey is without doubt one of the finest commercial growers in Europe, yet the society has never done anything on this scale in the past.”
The team will be staging both a vegetable and a flower exhibit, all of which will have been grown and produced in Jersey.
“We are very excited to be at the show, which is a wonderful opportunity to raise the profile of the society and put Jersey on the map, and hope to do well under the scrutiny of Malvern’s Royal Horticultural Society judges,” Le Marquand added.
TCAS’s Sharon Gilbert said: “ We are pleased to welcome Graeme and his fellow Jersey growers to Malvern next month. The group’s efforts are very impressive and we very much look forward to seeing the displays in place.
The show runs from September 23-24 celebrates “all that is good in the great British countryside at his time of year” and includes fruits, vegetables, flowers, food and drink as well as livestock and all a presentation of all the skills and pastimes of traditional rural life.
It will also feature a ‘Cookery Theatre’ with celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson.
