Hops and Hop Pickers

At the beginning of May our speaker was Chis Stewart, whose subject was Hops and Hop Pickers in the county of Kent. This was a combinations of general and social history, horticulture, beer and not not to mention a drop of economics. What a deluge of information to take in to what was a very large industry that has all but disappeared in the country.
It seems that that largest hop growers in Europe is Germany.