Strawberries and the Wimbledon Tennis Championships Maidstone , Kent , England
Strawberries are an early summer crop across Northern Europe , and they have become synonymous with one thing above all else : the Wimbledon tennis championships , where they are consumed with lashings of cream . For decades , Hugh Lowe Farms in Kent has supplied Wimbledon with its strawberries .
They are hand-picked and delivered each morning of The Championships . Each year , 38.4 tons of strawberries , in 140,000 punnets , are consumed during the event .
In 2020 , fresh strawberries were the world ' s 939th most traded product , with a total trade of US $ 2.99bn . supplychaindigital . com 13