A small group of us are also trying to do more small communal things that are permaculture-ish, but not fully organised.
eg. Sunday plum processing. M&K have a couple of plum trees that have been producing great gonzo this year - so many that they simply haven't had the energy to process them. So they invited the local group around to help pick, wash, and process the plums. They got four people to help, plus a neighbour, and since Sunday was crazy hot, we started picking plums around 8am and finished processing around 2pm.
Y'all, we picked 9.5kg of plums, and there were still some on the tree! That's not counting the ones that were lost to mould or blight, or which dropped while we were trying to pick them!
We managed to use about 3kg of it to make jam and chutney, but three groups of us still took about 1kg home each, and they still had plums to process!
They also picked elderberries and made elderberry cordial! So thick and deep purple! And tasty! Very tasty!
This is something I'll definitely something that I'll think about doing next Spring-Summer when the peaches/nectarines are going.
I also have some recipes for plum processing - Chinese Plum Sauce and Spiced Plum Wine...
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