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For over 250 years the Hoyles family have been farming in the Lincolnshire Fens, growing a range of crops on the naturally fertile reclaimed silt soils. We once supplied the major city wholesale markets with apples & pears, daffodil & tulip stems, potatoes, and local merchants with oats, wheat and mustard see
Today the family grows a range of fresh vegetables including potatoes and peas for local co-operatives for the supermarkets, and also sugarbeet for Silver Spoon British Sugar, wheat seed, and are still growing mustard seed for Colman’s five generations later. Our olive grove marks a new chapter, and fruit tree farming returns to our land for the first time since 1923. It is the UK’s first commercial olive grove and the most northern commercial olive grove in the world.
Our olive grove; born and bred in Lincolnshire
The idea of producing UK olive oil began in 2019. We have spent the years since assessing the most suitable olive tree varieties across Europe, studying how olive trees grow and develop, and testing the commercial potential of making, bottling and selling our own English Olive Oil.
In 2023 the project moved forward. We secured plant import licences, placed orders for trees and machinery, and invested in infrastructure. In Spring 2024 we planted the UK’s first commercial olive grove. It is also the worlds most northerly olive grove. The site has eighteen thousand olive trees.
The olive grove is sustainably managed; with no insecticides and no fungicides used. Water efficient drip fertigation delivers water and nutrients directly to each tree.
