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farm to glass

orfolk is farming country. It’s very flat and very fertile. These upper reaches of East Anglia stick out on their own into the North Sea, with no motorways or major cities to give them much sense of connectedness. This region has the feel of somewhere removed from the rest of England. But it supplies a quarter of the country’s wheat and barley. Half its farmed fields are used for cereal crops. The UK’s biggest supplier of frozen soft fruit is just outside Norwich, while hundreds of smaller concerns grow native apples and pears, cherries and

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