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Sep 12th, 2008 by Chris Duggan (GreeninBrum) | 6

Does anyone know of local initiatives where teams of volunteers can go to people’s gardens and allotments and collect fruit and vegetables that will not get picked in Brum?

I visited our local allotment yesterday and there were apple trees groaning under the weight of their uneaten fruit!

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6 Comments on “Scrumping”

  1. On September 12th, 2008 at 11:09 am
    admin said:

    I don’t know of any in Brum. Its a great idea. A friend is volunteering for a project in London where they harvest apples and teach community
    groups how to make apple juice. The owner of the tree gets some free juice so everyone is a winner. - Val (via Transition Birmingham network)

  2. On September 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
    admin said:

    http://www.growsheffield.com/pages/groShefAbund.html

    “Abundance is a project to harvest the seasonal glut of local fruit like apples, pear and plums. Each year hundreds of fruit trees go unpicked either because people don’t notice them, may not be physically able to harvest them or there are just too many fruits at one time. Abundance is a team of volunteers who have been helping harvest city fruit and redistributing the surplus to the community on
    a non-profit basis - to community cafes, nurseries, Surestarts and individuals.”
    -Amanda, via Transition Birmingham network

  3. On September 25th, 2008 at 4:59 am
    Oz said:

    I know of several fruit trees in public places in King’s Heath. If anyone is interested in getting together to pick, mainly, apples I am up for it. I would say it needs to be done by mid-October at the latest. - Oz

    ozzz@blueynder.co.uk

  4. On October 19th, 2008 at 4:46 am
    Oz said:

    How does one get in contact with Abundance?

  5. On January 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
    Maralyn Pickup said:

    There is a project in Bristol. They collect apples from gardens and press them for juice, like the above in London

  6. On April 30th, 2009 at 12:19 am
    Agnes said:

    If there are apple trees aplenty and no project to harvest them, get some people together and set one up! Manchester Abundance started last summer and now we have a strong groups and plenty of volunteers for the upcoming harvest. If you are in Manchester and want to get involved, let us know.

    http://abundancemanchester.wordpress.com/
    e-mail: freefood@lists.riseup.net

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