The Lord-Lieutenant was warmly welcomed by the team at Hammond Produce Ltd with a tour of the Hammond family’s farming group of businesses. From the original farm growing vegetables at Redhill near Arnold in Nottinghamshire, the business has grown and diversified significantly. This fourth, soon to be fifth, generation of farmers run began their business in 1900 when Thomas Hammond purchased his employer’s farm and continued to work the land growing vegetables. The farm now grows a wide range, and large volume, of vegetable and salad crops to serve the supermarket and wholesale markets and has progressed to haulage, and further on to developing a range of rapeseed oil products and oil packaging solutions for businesses across Europe.
