For a great food day out in Kent with healthy eating explore the Brogdale Farm orchards with fruit trees ranging from apples and pears to plums and cherries to cobnuts, strawberries and quinces while they are in season and experience demonstrations, tastings and displays during our special festivals. Our tour guides will entertain you with the historical background of the fruit varieties in season and offer tastings while you explore.

After your walk, why not visit The Courtyard Cafe full of delicious homemade cakes and farm produce or stroll around our Plant Centre, Grow and Market Place shops which promote a healthy lifestyle along with local Kent crafts.

The National Fruit Collection:
The National Fruit Collection is a unique Kent tourist attraction and an opportunity to taste the apple varieties Henry VIII would have eaten, the nuts Columbus would have carried to America, and the varieties of plum. the Victorians loved so much. With nearly 4 thousand varieties of fruit why settle for the bland supermarket varieties!?

Winner of the Tourism ExSellence Gold Award 2009: