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Colin Firth, judge and local resident with Sarah Cruz, co-founder of Abundance London
| Stop press June 2010: Abundance wins Observer Ethical Awards for Best Grassroots Project. 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 selling the surplus to the local restaurants and shops on a non-profit basis, ie. the money goes back into local charitable organisations, school or church funds. We have also made jams, chutneys and preserves, some of which, has been for sale in local stores.
If you have a fruit tree and want help with harvesting please contact us – you will get the first share. And if you are interested in becoming an urban harvester or want to help with picking, distribution or processing please get in touch. Volunteers have the pleasure of eating fresh, ripe fruit from the tree, finding out more about urban food growing and working alongside enthusiastic people of all ages.
For more information, to sign up to our mailing list, to report a new fruit tree, or to get involved with picking, jamming or in any other way, please emai us:
info@abundancelondon.com
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