The New Forest Fruit Company is a soft fruit growing business specialising in strawberries, asparagus and other small soft fruit. We grow, pack and distribute all our fruit to the leading UK supermarkets. Because of our privileged growing location and with the use of modern growing systems including a range of varieties, we have a very long picking season from March until the end of November.

All our crops are grown under protection; glasshouses for the first and last months of the season and polytunnels for the main season. Crop protection provides much better continuity of supply and better working conditions for our staff during inclement weather. 100% of our strawberries are also grown on a ‘table top’ system so that they are picked without the backbreaking bending often traditionally associated with picking. We are never happy to rest on our laurels, we took the step of further embracing table top systems by introducing 1 hectare of the NGS system in early 2021, this system increases the number of plants per hectare without the need for increasing the size of the polytunnels.  This is achieved through a rotational crop support system whereby the rows of plants are shifted from side by side to be above/below one another while a task is carried out and then returned to the original position.