This year there are two special awards in the Taste of Kent Awards 2012

Kent Downs The Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Kent Food, Farming and Landscape Award.


The purpose of this award is to recognise exemplary achievements where a a food producer or farmer makes a real contribution to the conservation and enhancement of Kent's fine landscape.
The Kent Downs and the Taste of Kent Awards recognise the important contribution that farmers and food producers make to the qualty of our landscape. The purpose of this award is to celebrate best practice.  The sort of thing we are thinking about is :

• A livestock farmer who is enhancing the landscape
• An arable farmer in HLS or LEAF audited and is going the extra mile to care for the   
   countryside
• A fruit farmer who has areas for wildlife and landscape conservation
• A juice producer who has the LEAF marque and links landscape conservation with their
   product
• Farm Diversification – a local producer who has diversified their business in a way
  which supports landscape

Entries in this years award are now closed - the judges will announce the winner at the Awards Dinner on the 2nd March.


The Produced in Kent Award

Designed to recognise the contribution of an individual or business to the Kent food and drink industry