Meet Dan, a 26 year-old strawberry farmer from Kent. Tomorrow, Dan will be taking over our Instagram and showing you a day in his life with help from arable farmer, Hannah! Make sure to follow Countryside on Instagram to see what they get up to 👉 ow.ly/BG4550JNH48

Well this is a first, not the usual P & D I come across 🍓🐖👀😂

First a pig, now a deer! All the wildlife around the farm in the last week - this one not a surprise but unusual to get this close! 🍓🐖🦌

One HUGE strawberry! At almost the size of a tennis ball the #Murano is putting out the berries. Will be picked tomorrow so someone will have this in their punnet soon!

It's the start of #FarmSafetyWeek 💛 NFU Vice President David Exwood (David Exwood) highlights the importance of being trained to protect ourselves and people we work with ⤵️ Find out more 👉 ow.ly/frSN50JXVpH #BackBritishFarming 🇬🇧👨‍🌾 NFU Farm Safety Farm Safety Foundation

From bread and biscuits, to cereal and vegetable oil, British farmers are harvesting day and night, in a field near you 🇬🇧👨‍🌾🍞🌾🍻 Show your support by sharing your #YourHarvest photos and replying to this tweet 👇

Delivering the goods 💪 Huge fruits well into September! The season may be slowing down but there is still plenty of British fruit available 🍓🇬🇧 #softfruit

Simple as that really 👀 who'd make life so difficult.. 🤐 Does work a treat though 💪🍓💦

Get involved if you are able!

Ploughing match practice! It's been a while since I've done any serious tractor stuff! 🚜💪 having never done a match before kinda hoping for best 🤞😂 any tips?

Huge fan of the magnetic trailer lights! Don't use them very often, but when you need them, you need them! Helps when you're ocd with working lights 👌 #connix

Happy with my first ploughing match! 🚜👌 #fastrac

Strawberry plants as far as the eye can see! 👀🍓👌 #Propagation #Strawberries #Netherlands

Happy #BackBritishFarmingDay! 🍓 You don't need me to tell you the hard work that goes into producing food, and todays all about celebrating British farmers and their produce! Take a look at the hashtag to see other reasons to #backbritishfarming! 🇬🇧

Hauling plants ready for grading, packing and cold store chill 🚜💨 Harvest 2023 preperations well underway! 🌱🍓 #JCB #Bailey

Electric weeding ⚡️⚡️ Nice to finally see a demo working up close on a neighbouring farm! Big fan of non chem weed control for what I'm involved with, electic kills it all the way to the roots, just as glyphosate would! Super impressive, black marks show contact area ⚡️👌

Harvest 2024 starts here! A few hundred thousand happy plants soaking up the sun shine this week! Thank goodness for good irrigation to keep them going!! These will be used for fruit production next year 🍓💦🌱☀️

My second piece for FG - Its been a busy couple of weeks! Shorts will definitely be staying on for the foreseeable! ☀️

Nice to see a little bit of colour in the last few weeks! Environmental areas doing there thing. Environment and farming 🤝

A fruitful season ahead! 🍓 Arable and fruit farmer Dan Hawes has kicked off the harvest in Kent - his glasshouse berries are already ripening and field-grown fruit is not far behind! 🙌 Catch up with Dan in his monthly blog for FG: ow.ly/sqpl50VNUIB