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‘A flourishing and fulfilling life’

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Les Jardins d'ici
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Screen Shot 2015-11-30 at 17.53.36Where drawings illustrate well what us humans should do next.

 

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Posted in Fruit for sustainable development | Tagged UK-London | 1 Reply

Connecting

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Les Jardins d'ici
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Connecting-Thumbnail2_MG_4208Just a photo with a quick comment today. I thought it would be nice to bring some apples from our garden to my London friends.

 

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Fruit Day 2015

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Les Jardins d'ici
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LogoAbundance8June13-Sep2015Yesterday was Abundance Wimbledon Fruit Day 2015, which marks the second anniversary of this blog. Here are their details for those who would like to join the fruit sharing initiative. 

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Medlars

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Les Jardins d'ici
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Medlars_3-IMG_5096-webThe medlar is a forgotten fruit that attracted a lot of interest from the Londoners I met. Here is the story of my London medlars experience and of what happened afterwards.

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This is not a garden

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Les Jardins d'ici
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KingsCrossjune14-GSquare_MG_7123-webGranary Square is part of King’s Cross, the largest urban redevelopment in Central London at the moment. Pears, cherries, tomatoes and other edibles are growing there, for the pleasure of the eyes, just a few yards away from Central Saint Martins’ creative powerhouse.

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Damson curd

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Les Jardins d'ici
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DamsonJam-IMG_6142-webBack to London fruit for a while, in order to broaden our record of the varieties of plums that grow there and provide a recipe I haven’t tested myself.

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Posted in Eat, Other stories | Tagged Plums, UK-London | 5 Replies

Rhubarb jam at Wimbledon Green Day 2013

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Les Jardins d'ici
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RhubarbDSCN0392-webJust to add rhubarb in the list of things that grow in London gardens, and provide insight into the variety of tastes that can be created in jams with this vegetable sometimes considered as fruit.

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Elderflower cordial

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Les Jardins d'ici
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ElderflowerCordial_2914-webI look forward to harvesting elderflowers and making this refreshing preparation in June / July wherever I am, as elder trees are abundant in both the UK and France. In any case it will be a celebration of what I have learnt in London.

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Plum Plum Plum

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Les Jardins d'ici
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PlumsRed2012_0295-webAway from London and in the absence of a clear way forward for ‘Les jardins d’ici’ I am adding colour to this blog with photos of three plums varieties picked in Wimbledon in 2012.

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Using frozen apples

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Les Jardins d'ici
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ApplesFrozen_7971-webFreezing fruit enables to process it anytime out of the harvesting season. Here is what I did two years ago with frozen apples given by an Earlsfield resident.

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