Abundance – Grow Sheffield
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. Abundance has been distributing free fresh fruit around the streets of central Sheffield and Meadowhall Shopping Centre from the custom designed mobile fruit unit.
Although its late in the season if you have a fruit tree and want help with harvesting please contact us – you will get the first share.
( Probably a bit late now, but worth flagging up for next year )
hello, i’ve been looking for your email address everywhere… so trying a comment instead: we are organising this year’s menu for hope for the uk – if you’d like to participate, please get in touch and i will send you more information! (alternatively, find more info on my blog!)
it would be great if you could participate!
thanks
johanna
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Great Solution to a problem. I am actually guilty myself. We have some Apple trees in our back Garden, and I never pick the fruit, although I do allow our neighbour to come across and use what she likes, so I guess this counts a little.