English eccentrics are a joyous breed, but hard to find. What fun, then, to discover a corner of Kent that is absolutely seething with nutters. One of them, Alexander Hunt, is not only a ...

Year after year, after I had ­relocated to the Kentish border following a lengthy sojourn in California, I could not understand the strange clusters of frilly fruit which seemed to start bursting out ...

The wettest summer for 250 years, which brought misery for most of Britain's farmers, has been perfect for growing cobnuts. Peter Webb, Britain's only registered organic cobnut grower, runs his ...

Growers of Kentish cobnuts are expecting an all-time record harvest following last year’s mild winter and a good pollination period in spring. The arrival of the August Bank Holiday normally signals ...

You'd never guess that John Cannon, taking long strides down his orchards in the lovely Bourne Valley, in Kent, was approaching his 80th year. The secret of his vitality? ‘Cobnuts,' he smiles. Well, ...

Cobnuts are undergoing a "renaissance" thanks to a bumper crop and record demand for the hazelnut-like nuts. This year's unseasonal weather has produced a national crop of about 600 tonnes, almost ...

A memorial service to celebrate the life of a distinguished cobnut farmer will be held on Saturday. John Cannon, of Roughway Farm, Tonbridge, was born in 1931 in Tasmania, Australia, where he was soon ...

Young, sweet, green cobnuts appear in early September. Along with damsons they signal the arrival of autumn. Cobnuts are essentially young hazelnuts. Still unripened and green, they nonetheless have a ...

A gluten-free sweet tart with just five ingredients and that makes great use of the season’s windfall cobnuts (or hazelnuts if you live far outside Kent) I took a short break in the countryside last ...

Janet Street-Porter's tracked down the finest food the country has to offer for a mouthwatering new TV show – and here she shares a few of her favourite dishes When I’m out walking in Kent, I always ...

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