Tim Gawthroup down among the UK’s first commercial lentil crop on his farm in Hertfordshire SWNSThe experts said it simply couldn’t be done. At best, it wasn’t worth the hassle. Yet a group of British growers have surprised food experts by being the first to harvest crops of lentils on a commercial scale, using six farms across the country. Yesterday, he harvested up to ten tons of puy lentils from six farms in Hertfordshire, Suffolk, Sussex, Wiltshire and Hampshire. “In the conventional farming community there was a lot of scepticism but also from research organisations which we had spoken to,” he said.

Source: The Times August 30, 2017 23:03 UTC