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Category Archives: Fruit for sustainable development
Golden apple gifts
I ran a compote-making workshop at the London Orchard Project’s Apple Festival in October. I bought a Christmas gift from them to create a legacy for London.
Shared British quinces
‘I found these quinces in a bag on someone’s front lawn on the outskirts of Seaford.’, did she write. I have quince sharing stories too, and a dream to tell about.
Figs: eat or throw away?
Beyond a comparative tasting between figs picked in Wimbledon and figs purchased in the trade, we look at the pleasures of eating and the dislikes for waste as grounds for a better use of local fruit.
Windfalls and the nightmare of fruit loss
Using windfalls at the end of the harvesting season is like desperately trying to save what shouldn’t have been lost in the first place.
Save the apples! – Act 2
I have just made a kilo of apple puree to start the process I engaged on streetlife.com this morning to save apples in the Southfields area and hopefully beyond.
Save the apples!
‘Tesco estimated that, across the UK food industry, 40% of apples were wasted’ (BBC News, 21 Oct.). Here is what I do with damaged apples. Surely there are large scale solutions!
Hello Abundance Fruit Day visitors!
You may have purchased one of the jams and compotes I donated for Fruit Day today. Please bear with me, product information and recipes should be uploaded shortly.
Hello fruit lovers!
I am Jean-Jacques, an active member of Abundance Wimbledon and Abundance Southfields, here in London, United Kingdom. We pick and share local surplus fruit.
Today 21st September is our annual Abundance Wimbledon Fruit Day, where I will run a jam-tasting stall. This year I will be introducing compote, a fresh and low-in-sugar alternative to jam easy to make at home.
Various products made from local fruit will be for sale, to raise funds for Abundance. I thought it would be a good idea to tell a bit more about mine, and to give the recipes so that people realise how simple they are.
So I have created this site for the occasion, which I hope will have a life after Wimbledon Fruit Day 2013. In the meantime have a good read, and maybe join your local fruit sharing initiative or try a recipe or two… There are lots of apples and pears at the moment.
Your dedicated writer, harvesting fruit in Wimbledon and Southfields in 2010. Click on the photo to access the 2’30 video.
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