tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21348653568785487752024-03-13T21:10:23.167-07:00Blue Mountains Fruit and Nut Tree NetworkThis informal (non-monetary) economy network connects growers and consumers of local fruits and nuts in the Blue Mountains ('Lapstone to Lithgow', NSW, Australia) See calendar of fruits and nuts harvested locally (top right column) and kinds of fruit and nut plants registered by our contributors as currently growing (bottom right column). Are you growing interesting or unusual fruits or nuts?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-40428382783889963292015-03-09T02:43:00.000-07:002015-03-16T22:30:06.885-07:00Great Chestnut Expedition: 28th March<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-1fab70aa-fdd8-b7bd-0b05-2618a425f927" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Come and be part of this important day, and show your support for Slow Food Blue Mountains, locally-grown – and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c0504d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Earth Hour Day!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> There are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #943634; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">three elements</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to this </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chestnut-inspired day</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and you can choose to be involved with one – or all three!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #943634; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #943634; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">EXPEDITION TO KOOKOOTONGA CHESTNUT/WALNUT FARM</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #943634; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 247 Mt Irvine Road, Mount Irvine, to collect chestnuts. A sublime experience! You can choose to <b>meet us there at 11 </b>am (look for our sign) or be part of a car-pool, meeting in Katoomba at <b>10 am</b>. (Email </span><a href="mailto:sfbm@slowfoodaustralia.com.au" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">sfbm@slowfoodaustralia.com.au</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> if you wish to car pool, for further details.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d99594; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ‘ Kookootonga’ is one of the original farms at Mt Irvine in the Blue Mountains and has been owned by the Scrivener family since 1897. The first chestnuts and walnuts were planted over 100 years ago. The majority of the orchard was created by Bill and Ruth Scrivener (the current owners) from the 1950s. Find out more about Kookootonga, including directions at </span><a href="http://www.kookootonga.com.au/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.kookootonga.com.au</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d99594; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you wish, return to a ‘secret location’ in Katoomba to help cook, peel and then freeze chestnuts – and taste a few as well as you work! (Later, these processed chestnuts will be turned into CHESTNUT PATE and CHESTNUT CAKE by two local small businesses for Slow Food Blue Mountains and sold at our Slow Food stall, during the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c0504d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leura Harvest Festival</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on 3 May, 2015.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c0504d; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c0504d; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">EARTH HOUR CHESTNUT ROASTING AND CHOCOLATE FONDUE BY CANDLELIGHT</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> – </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">8pm</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> onwards</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sitting at communal tables festooned with chestnut leaves, we’ll turn out the lights at 8.30 and savour the delights of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hot roasted chestnuts</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chestnut chocolate fondue</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> by candelight! Be quick! Numbers strictly-limited for this. Cost: $25 per person/$20 Slow Food members. Bookings Essential: E </span><a href="mailto:sfbm@slowfoodaustralia.com.au/text" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">sfbm@slowfoodaustralia.com.au/text</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 0423109270.</span><br />
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Seasonal Notes</h2>
It's good to take stock and make notes every season. Fruit and Nut Network members Kris and Marnie share their experiences from different places.<br />
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<i>by Kris Newton </i><br />
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My summer raspberries are really getting into their stride, and I’m
picking a bowlful every few days; I’m enjoying Jonathan and Cox’s
Orange Pippin apples, with the majority of varieties yet to come; and
my main crop of figs is starting up (the early, breba, crop of Black
Genoa was <b><i>amazing</i></b>!).<br />
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Unfortunately,
the almost sub-tropical environment in the mid- to lower-Mountains is
also encouraging all sorts of fungal growths, like black-spot; I need
to make time to get out with the milk spray and get into my fruit trees
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So far so good
in my experimental greenhouse - there’s more vegetative growth than
anything else, which I’d expect in young trees; but I do still have one
mango left on the little dwarf mango tree, so I’m hoping to try
harvesting this soon :-). </div>
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I’ve moved most of
my expanded citrus section into large pots, and now have a 'Citrus
Annexe' under the eaves (to protect from any frost) along the long
north-facing wall of the house. All have put on significant new growth,
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...in the Upper Mountains</h3>
<i>by Marnie O'Mara</i><br />
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Summer is the season of plenty here in the mountains. Our garden
has provided us with an abundance of produce over the past few months -
we've eaten our fill, shared with friends, swapped for things we don't
grow but others do, frozen, dehydrated and bottled enough to get us
through the less productive Winter.<br />
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crab apples. I know lots of people have these in their gardens and think
they aren't the most useful of fruits. We brought home about two kilos
of crab apples from the swap as we wanted to make enough pectin to see
us through the next berry-jamming season. We also used them to make two
batches of fabulous fizz, one lot paired with rhubarb. The result was
delicious - thirst quenching and not too sweet.<br />
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Our three apple trees are very sensible - they pretty much stagger the
ripening of their fruit so that when one is finished the next begins
(actually, my very practical hubby carefully chose which trees to plant
with this in mind). This means we have been able to pick apples every
day during January and February - and today, the first day of Autumn, we
still have lots of apple days ahead.<br />
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crop of grapes! This is the vine's third season - last year we had a few
good sized bunches, and this year there are masses of huge purple/black
bunches of beautiful, juicy grapes. I see the birds eyeing them off,
longing to get stuck into the fruit, however our garden cage keeps the
birds out and our precious bounty safe.<br />
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Surveying our garden this morning I see that we'll soon be picking kiwi fruit and cape gooseberries.<br />
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Have seasonal notes for the lower mountains or elsewhere in the mountains? We'd love to <a href="mailto:edibleforests@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">hear from you</a>! More news from <a href="http://eepurl.com/bfDkKX" rel="nofollow">the Fruit and Nut Tree Network</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-91419079042504570522015-02-26T01:29:00.002-08:002015-02-26T01:29:50.954-08:00Great Strawberry Jam without Pectin? <i><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1087027-3ffd-4a95-5997-d7f918fd538d"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strawberry Jam Recipe by Marnie O'Mara</span></span></i><br />
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<i><br /></i><i>By Anitra Nelson, with updates from Anne Elliott and Kat Szuminska</i><br />
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<b>It started with The Fruit and Nut Tree Register</b>
The Blue Mountains Fruit and Nut Tree N<wbr></wbr>etwork was started several years ago by Anne Elliott, as the Slow Food Fruit Tree Register. This spread to become a National Slow Food initiative. The register was designed to identify, record and preserve old varieties of fruit trees as well as the whole culture of fruit tree growing and harvesting.<br />
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<b>Growing, harvesting, storing and cooking</b>
In 2009, Anitra Nelson, with support from Anne Elliott and others, including members of Permaculture Blue Mountains Lizzie Connor and Sue Girard, in the form of a wider network connected by an email list and blog. They designed new activities to support local residents to share knowledge and skills in growing, harvesting and storing fruit and nuts in their gardens, in community gardens and other appropriate public land. We have had a free or as-cheap-as-we-can approach to these activities, which children can often participate in.<br />
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<b>Workshops and field trips, online and off</b>
Over the last few years we have organised a range of workshops and field trips. Our newsletter now goes out to 300 email addresses, some including groups of people and many couples. We also have had inserts in the Blue Mountains Gazette alerting people to our existence and promote single events in the Gazette the week before they happen.
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<b>Working for food</b>
Activities for 2011 began on 2 January with berry picking at Cloud Farm Community Collective (Mt Tomah). This collective was formed to preserve a massive one-acre netted food forest, which included dozens of different kinds of fruit and nut plants. The collective was ‘working for food not money’ and one of its aims was to share skills and knowledge within our local community. By year’s end it had disbanded, but was a useful experiment and provided an ongoing venue for our network’s activities while it lasted. Besides events organized by our network we promoted opportunities such as for individuals and small groups to pick figs there and to collect manure as a joint exercise. Tours with benefits of hand dug berry canes and a variety of other propagules from our very generous hosts Judith and John Chorley.
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Twice in July the network pruned apple trees in McRae’s Paddock (public land). In 2012 Brian, Wayne and Sue ran a pruning workshop at the community gardens, over 50 people took part, and in 2013 Barry Jarrott ran a pruning workshop in Katoomba (pictured above). Anne also presented regular, seasonal, workshops on preserving fruit using Fowlers Vacola equipment. There is a healthy resurgence of interest in canning & bottling and these workshops are popular. Also new in 2013 Maggie facilitated a workshop with eager participants sharing their experiences on the art of dehydrating foods.<br />
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<b>Partnering with TAFE</b>
A partnership with TAFE since 2011 has resulted in a variety of successful outreach courses. While all result in a No 9070 Statement of Attainment in Access to Work & Training, the contents have extended across a range of fruit and nut growing and harvesting activities, including: establishing fruit and nut <wbr></wbr>trees in the Blue Mountains, maintaining trees and food forests, pests and diseases, nutrition, harvesting, storing, preserving and sharing fruit and nuts. They've been held at the Blue Mountains Organic Community Gardens at least twice a year and range from 10 - 18 hours training altogether. Local permaculture expert Susan Girard runs the TAFE courses.<br />
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<b>Underneath the Spreading Chestnut Trees</b>
Beginning 2012, each March/April Anne Elliott leads a group visit to Kookootonga Chestnut and Walnut Farm in Mt Irvine to collect chestnuts in season and enjoy a picnic lunch. The farm provides buckets/bags for nuts. We look forward to this annual treat. In 2014 a Sid from Lushious created a fantastic chestnut pate which was eagerly snapped up in the first couple of hours going on sale at Leura's inaugural Harvest Festival.<br />
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In 2012, Anitra travelled overseas, and then subsequently relocated to Victoria. That's when Anne Elliott and Kat Szuminska took over responsibility for organizing and promoting activities, updating this blog and sending out the newsletter. New activities included a series on Collective Sustainability in the co-working space 2780 in Katoomba. We invited local foodies and food writers to share their recipes and local food stories and histories.<br />
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Gathering chestnuts, sharing surplus citrus fruits and fig cuttings, pruning fruit trees at Varuna (the Writers’ House), Mt Tomah and Katoomba Organic Community Gardens, holding preserving workshops, promoting swaps and trade in local fruit and nuts through our food co-operative, the foragers' network on facebook, swap tables at local permaculture and transition town events, and even dedicated swap meets. Most recently Kris organised an open day of food forests in the mid mountains.
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These are all the kinds of activities organised and promoted through the Blue Mountains Fruit and Nut Tree N<wbr></wbr>etwork.
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The Fruit and Nut Tree Network is <a href="http://slowfoodbluemountains.com.au/" target="_blank">Slow Food Blue Mountains</a> initiative<br />
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<span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><i>It was great to see the different approaches employed across a range of well-organised productive gardens. I came away with many ideas to help me set up my own garden, especially around setting up raised beds, constructing soft surface paths, and protecting produce from birds and other pests. All the display gardeners were very generous with their advice and are to be commended on their fantastic bountiful gardens.</i></span></div>
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<span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><i>Since hearing about the food forest open day I had great expectations of seeing gardens of Eden and learning how to grow anything. My dreams were partly realised as, within just a few kilometres of each other, the six gardens exhibit features of permaculture and intelligent design; optimising climate niches, soil types and the unique character of their creators. I still don't know how to graft a plum tree, but I did score some great jam, and I know who to ask. Looking forward to next year.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #61177c;">There seems to be some enthusiasm for holding a ‘ Food Forest' Open Day on an annual basis. In 2015 we may focus on productive gardens in the Lower Mountains - so if you have a productive garden (or know someone else who does) around Faulconbridge/Springwood/</span><wbr style="color: #61177c;"></wbr><span style="color: #61177c;">Warrimoo way and would be interested in participating, please get in touch with Kris (</span><a href="mailto:kris@cervelle.com.au" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">kris@cervelle.com.au</a><span style="color: #61177c;">; 0458 626210). The following year, we might go to the Upper Mountains; then perhaps back to Mid-Mountains, or to Glenbrook/Blaxland area; so that eventually we cover the whole Mountains, and visitors can get to see the progress in the gardens on their return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be aware that even local shops will sell plants and trees which may not grow in your yard as the climate changes so much from one end of the mountains to another. So it makes sense to do a bit of research first (see our list of what grows where) and talk to the staff if you're still not sure, before you suffer the lost of a tree (heartbreaking!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're looking for a wider variety, and heritage trees for, then mail order is your best bet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Up north, in warmer climes,</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"> <a href="http://www.forbiddenfruitsnursery.com.au/products/pricelist.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Forbidden Fruits</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have everything from Acerola Cherry </span><i>(Malpighia emarginata)</i> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Midyim berry</span><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span>Austromytus dulcis) </i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to the humungous White Sapote. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/" target="_blank">Daleys Fruit Trees</a> based in northern NSW have a terrific selection and heaps of buyers contribute to a community forum with lots of growing experiences shared. They also offer trees especially for container growing and at the other end of the scale, have a wholesale option for those of you looking to establish larger orchards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upper mountains residents in our cool climate may prefer to buy trees from similar cooler climates which need less acclimatisation on delivery to our mountain heights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.woodbridgefruittrees.com.au/" target="_blank">Woodbridge Fruit Trees </a>is where all the heritage apple trees down at Katoomba Community Gardens came from over 20 years ago, and all but one still going strong. You can buy trees 'bare rooted' without soil attached and therefore less shipping costs from them in mid-winter mid July-August. They stock dwarf trees, crab apples, plums, apricots and quinces & 'step over' apples for those of use packing a lot of fruit into smaller spaces. Check out their <a href="http://www.woodbridgefruittrees.com.au/wft/content/8-pollination-guide" target="_blank">guide to pollination</a> to make sure of good productivity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.petethepermie.com/fruit/" target="_blank">Pete the Permie</a> is brimming with passion and knowledge about fruit trees, and on his site you can find excellent information about the range of different rootstocks something not well or easily explained elsewhere. Although based in Victoria and not inclined to post trees unless absolutely necessary, he will be travelling around a bit in Winter so pick ups can be arranged. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.yalcafruittrees.com.au/" target="_blank">Yalca Fruit Trees</a> also in Victoria, delivering July/August stock a large range of fruit and nut trees including quite an extensive range of figs and ballerina apples (grow in one column).</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;">In my backyard is the most self-sufficient tree of all time. A plum of some description with dark flesh and lovely weeping branches. I do nothing to it. I don’t prune it, water it, or fertilise it. All I do is ignore it. As thanks it fruits abundantly each year. I remember it only when cajoling currawongs and screeching sulphur crested yobbos take up residence in its upper branches. The riot in my backyard tells me it’s time to harvest. Overcome with ennui I continue to ignore it letting the plums fall and the birds plunder. It seems a shame and a waste but what would I do with all those plums anyway? </span></div>
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While I assiduously ignore the tree my friend, Kat, has been keeping a weather eye on it. One evening she takes my giant laundry basket, braving knee high grass, and fills it overflowing with plums. The fruit sits on my kitchen bench ripening and reproving me. I hand out a few bags of squishy plums to family and friends but the volume seems undiminished. There’s only one answer I’ll have to make jam. The giant bottles of savoury plum sauce I made several years ago still languish in my pantry, so this year I’ll go over to the sweet side. </div>
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Pickling, bottling and jamming all interest me. I love them in theory, I read recipes in books and online, but I am woefully short on actual jam making experience. I consult Pam the Jam, author of the River Cottage book on preserving. She has a fairly basic recipe for plum jam – just plums and sugar. I decide that this can be improved on so I set to work on creating plum, orange and star anise jam. I cut, weigh and boil fruit and sugar to Pam’s instructions. But I add orange juice and carefully counted strips of zest and star anise. I put the fruit on to cook, slowly. But I’m overly cautious, Pam says that the jam will reach setting point in 10 – 15 minutes. Thirty minutes, then forty minutes drag by, the house is filled with a sweet spicy aroma, but still the thermometer and plate in the freezer tell me the jam’s not set. Bored (and a little worried) I up the temperature to a rollicking boil and in 10 minutes I’m there – 104°C with a positive crinkle test. My jam will set. I fill hot sterilized jars with warm sweet jam wishing I wasn’t making such a mess.</div>
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I’ve made kilos of jam, filling jars I’ve been hoarding in the room of doom for years. I don’t really eat jam so I promptly start giving it away. It feels nice to give a gift I’ve cooked from my own produce. I’m happy. My friends are happy. I decide that maybe next year I’ll show the tree a little tenderness, but with my black thumbs that might not be a good idea.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-72618445573967901242014-01-08T18:21:00.003-08:002014-01-08T20:22:33.524-08:00Making Wild Cider<b id="docs-internal-guid-6d2479de-74ad-53db-7e31-67bceed88429" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are plenty of apples to ripen still, come down to the community gardens on a Friday morning at 10am if you'd like to arrange to take some apples and try a cider making experiment yourself :-) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This term TAFE Outreach and the Fruit and Nut Tree Network presented not one but two sets of workshops</span><span lang="EN-US"> Food Forests at the Katoomba's Organic Community Gardens. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Over a dozen eager students from the Blue Mountains and just beyond, fronted up to find out what is involved in creating a Food Forest and how you would maintain one right here in this Temperate and Cool Mountainous climate. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Through the course, students explored how an immature woodland could be the most productive type of forest in providing fruit and nuts for people to consume. Together we looked at what would help trees grow and how to develop an ideal ecosystem to keep them in good health. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">We planted nitrogen fixing seeds as well as longer lasting plants down near the citrus grove, not only to improve soil fertility but also to create a wind break from our late winter winds. We also rejuvenated the understory of herb and ground covers below the heritage apple tree walk in an endeavour to boost the productivity in that area. </span>Intricacies of chill hours and incompatible flowers were just a few of the topics touched upon including pests and pruning. We found juvenile ladybeetles (good guys) and wooly aphids (bad guys) but fortunately no snakes, considering the suitable weather.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">The students reported that they loved the interaction with the garden, and the informal – non classroom feel of the learning structure. Several expressed a wish to continue similar courses with TAFE and are hopeful such community engagement with TAFE will continue well after the financial year 2014.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-27428146109802891332013-08-15T23:43:00.001-07:002013-08-15T23:43:05.678-07:00Free Food Forest course coming to Katoomba in October<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been in the making over winter, and finally The Fruit and Nut Tree Network is ex</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">cited to announ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ce a great new </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">course to help you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">create and maintain a wonderful produ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ctive food forest</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">, and best of all its totally FREE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're thinking about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;">creating</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> a forest of food from s</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">crat</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ch, or </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">considering</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> <b>retrofitting</b> an existing or</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">chard or stand of trees, or adding trees to a mature garden it </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">can be</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> hard to know where to start. How do you design to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">create a harmonious environment for benefi</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">cial and produ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ctive plants, and dis</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">courage pests and disease? You'll find out the answers to su</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ch thorny questions as these, and mu</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ch mu</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ch more. </span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">can</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> I feed different fruit trees without buying spe</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">cialised fertilisers?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Will fruit be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">carried and</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> spread into the bush?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Are there any trees you shouldn't plant under?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Do fruit trees all need pollinating by other trees?</span></li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Whether you're starting off in in 2 square meters or overhauling two he</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ctares, many of the same strategies apply. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Our up</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">coming free </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">course in asso</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">ciation with TAFE and the blue mountains </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">community gardens in Katoomba will help you on your way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-9203091703137226052013-06-03T19:58:00.000-07:002013-06-03T19:58:15.219-07:00Food Dehydrating forum<b><i>What do you do when you have a state of the art food dehydrator and you don’t really know what to do with it?</i></b><br />
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Where do you start? What’s possible? What works well and not so well? What are the tricks?
The answer is, you tap into the wealth of skills and knowledge that already exist in the community and bring it together within a FOOD DEHYDRATING FORUM.<br />
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That’s exactly what a member of the Fruit and Nut Tree Network did on Saturday June 1st. About fifteen women (no men put their hand up?) gathered in a cosy Leura home and pooled their knowledge regarding the dehydration of food. Some women had been doing it all their lives, following in family traditions, while others got into it through bush walking and outdoor activities. Most wanted ways to preserve seasonal fruits and veges either from their own garden abundance or from seasonal shop/farm gate offerings.<br />
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The group learned about making leather strips of fruit or veges, the ins and outs of meat jerky, fabulous and easy ways of dehydrating and re-hydrating whole dinners, semi dried tomatoes that start off reducing on a hot car bonnet, drying herbs, making yogurt and tips on reducing sauces/spreads to powders that reconstitute into things like tomato soup/paste, humus, babaganoush or an infinite number of other sauces that can be quickly added to dishes to boost nutrition and flavour.<br />
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Examples of dried foods were available to see/taste and one participant leaned that you must first blanch sweet potato rounds if you want them to result in really crispy yummy chips post dehydrating. Safe storage was also explored - plastic, glass or vacuum sealed bags and there were several brands of machines and cutting equipment on display to aid in future purchases.<br />
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All in all, it was exhilarating and inspiring and the best possible way to spend a cold cloudy winter’s day. The beginner dehydrators swam in a pool of tried and true knowledge while the experienced picked up further tips and recipes along with the satisfaction of sharing their skills. If there is sufficient interest, the forum could be run again next year.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-11003470318205398772013-05-06T02:12:00.001-07:002013-05-06T02:12:24.055-07:00Chestnuts roasting in a woodfired outdoor oven<div>
Fabulous chestnuts brought from Mt Irvine and Mt Tomah took centre stage at the weekend's permaculture day celebrations at the community Garden. Both seemed yielded their creamy sweet nutty centres easily, sliding from the shells when expertly cooked in this traditional chestnut roasting pan. You can always roast chestnuts in the oven too, and that's a great way to heat the kitchen as the temperature drops. I noted chestnuts from Bathurst at the co-op last Friday but I suspect we won't see too many more of these from local sources now. Remember fresh chestnuts don't keep for long even in the fridge.</div>
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A this time of year, the risk of frosty nights and cold winds increase, remember to protect any young citrus trees with a hessian or shade cloth wrapped securly around garden stakes as a tent (those under 3 years).<br />
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<i>by Melanie and Alexander </i></div>
The medlar is no ordinary fruit; it has inspired reverence and revulsion because of its obscure ripening process. The centre of a medlar flower invites curiosity and introspection. Flirtatious stigmas and stamens reflect the self-fertilizing nonchalance of a fruit which is edible when it borders on rotting. As the medlar fruit matures on the tree it resembles an apple with a crown at its bottom. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOHYvpGkkz5y7vFM49-GE9T2pTMMzUvOgjjXzsyKNFMKgGd8MDQR713UWWL2YVnYeVBRg3tKNaN7NCAyNfEFU9YnXETpeaIB-0rXYMNxuUob7Mvr7IUizLx33pLjJCgIEVXKXJO8_jZXg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-05-04+at+1.56.50+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOHYvpGkkz5y7vFM49-GE9T2pTMMzUvOgjjXzsyKNFMKgGd8MDQR713UWWL2YVnYeVBRg3tKNaN7NCAyNfEFU9YnXETpeaIB-0rXYMNxuUob7Mvr7IUizLx33pLjJCgIEVXKXJO8_jZXg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-05-04+at+1.56.50+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><br />
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"Now will he sit under a medlar tree,<br />
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit<br />
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.<br />
O Romeo, that she were, O that she were<br />
An open-arse and thou a poperin pear!"<br />
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They are said to be “A fruit that ripens through its own corruption”.<br />
Medlar is related to quinces and apples, and part of the rose family. Medlar trees grow very<br />
slowly to 10 to 25 feet tall (3 to 7.5 metres), with a spread of 7 to 15 feet (2 to 4 1/2 metres.)<br />
The wood of the tree is light red and very hard with a very fine grain; it was often used for<br />
canes and walking sticks. The trees will start bearing fruit after 4 to 6 years, and are very long<br />
lived. The leaves are long and pointed with hairs underneath them.<br />
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The trees bloom a month later than apple trees, producing pinky-white flowers. The fruit is<br />
small and round. It starts off with greenish-yellow skin ripening to rust coloured. There is an indent at the top of the fruit, and several seeds inside.<br />
The fruit is picked in the autumn when the leaves start to fall off the tree. You pick them right<br />
after the first frost, when they are still hard. At this stage, they are not only too hard to eat;<br />
they are also too sour to eat. The fruit needs to rot a bit first (this is called "bletting") before it<br />
is actually considered "ripe" enough to eat. This takes about 2 to 3 weeks in storage. They will<br />
become soft, mooshy brown, sweet and tasty with a flavour close to applesauce or cider. If<br />
the word "rot" is too indelicate, you could always say that they need to mature, like a wine or<br />
cheese.<br />
“Bletting,” permits the breakdown of starches into sugars. As the flesh softens the inside of a<br />
medlar begins to resemble applesauce. It is precisely at this time that notes of cider, spice<br />
and the musk of ripe apricots develops. There is short window of time between edible and<br />
rotten, which has led to adoration by connoisseurs and disgust by those who cannot contend<br />
with the medlar’s fermentation. The fruit is more tenacious than those who have no patience<br />
for its obscurity. In addition to being self-pollinating the medlar can set fruit without<br />
pollination—nature’s reckoning for those who misunderstand this amazing fruit.<br />
Medlars may be eaten raw, cooked or baked. Jellies are commonly made as the fruit is<br />
naturally rich in pectin. Medlar varieties include: Dutch, Macrocarpa, Nottingham and Royal.<br />
Nottingham fruits are about 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide. The Dutch and Macrocarpa have somewhat<br />
larger fruit.<br />
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Recipes:<br />
<b>MEDLAR CHEESE (An old recipe!) </b><br />
Put some Medlars into an earthenware jar, stand it in a saucepan with boiling water nearly to<br />
the top and keep it boiling gently over a slow fire. When the Medlars are quite soft, pass them<br />
through a fine hair sieve, and weigh the pulp, and for every pound allow one and a half<br />
breakfast cups of coarsely crushed loaf sugar and half a teaspoonful of allspice. Put all the<br />
ingredients together in the preserving pan, and stir them over the fire with a wooden spoon<br />
until thickly reduced, skimming occasionally. Turn the cheese into moulds, and keep them in a<br />
cold place. When ready to serve, turn the cheeses out of the moulds on to a dish.<br />
From Theodore Garrett The Encyclopaedia of Practical Cookery (London 1880)<br />
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<b>MEDLAR CHEESE (A modern translation) </b><br />
Put some Medlars into a Pyrex bowl, stand it in a saucepan with boiling water nearly to the<br />
top and keep it boiling gently over a slow heat. When the Medlars are quite soft, pass them<br />
through a fine sieve, and weigh the pulp, and for every pound allow one and a half breakfast<br />
cups of coarsely crushed sugar and half a teaspoonful of allspice. Put all the ingredients<br />
together in a preserving pan, and stir them over the heat with a wooden spoon until thickly<br />
reduced, skimming occasionally. Turn the cheese into moulds, and keep them in a cold place.<br />
When ready to serve, turn the cheeses out of the moulds on to a dish.<br />
MEDLAR CHEESE (A Country Harvest Cookbook)<br />
Equal weights of medlar pulp and sugar<br />
1–2 oranges or 3-6 mandarins – juice and zest<br />
Ground cloves<br />
Stir pulp and sugar together in a pan, add the juice and zest of the oranges (or mandarins) to<br />
taste.<br />
Heat and cook, stirring constantly, until the pulp is thick and comes away from the sides of the<br />
pan. Remove from heat.<br />
Add cloves to taste and mix well. Pour into a buttered dish or tray. When dry, cut into<br />
squares (can be sprinkled with sugar) and store in airtight containers with fresh bay leaves<br />
between layers of baking paper. Serve as a sweetmeat with coffee or cheese.<br />
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<b>MEDLAR JELLY (Method 1: Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall)</b><br />
<b>Ingredients </b><br />
• 1kg medlars (quartered but not peeled)<br />
• 500g Bramley cooking apples<br />
• About 650g granulated sugar<br />
1. Quarter the medlars. Peel and chop the apples and tip the fruit into a preserving pan, or<br />
any heavy-bottomed, deep, wide pan, with just enough water to cover.<br />
2. Bring to a simmer and cook for 30-45 minutes, until the medlars are soft and pulpy.<br />
3. Strain through a jelly bag on a stand set over a large bowl. Don't be tempted to poke,<br />
squeeze or force the pulp through the bag or you'll get a cloudy jelly, just leave it to drip over<br />
the bowl for several hours or overnight. Don't discard the pulp though – it’s perfect for adding<br />
to our chutney.<br />
4. Measure the juice, pour into a clean preserving pan and bring to boiling point before adding<br />
the sugar (for every 1l of juice, add 650g of sugar). Stir, in one direction only to reduce foam,<br />
until sugar is totally dissolved then boil rapidly for 8 minutes or until the setting point is<br />
reached. If you have a preserving thermometer, it should read 104.5°C; if you don’t have a<br />
thermometer, drop a little jelly onto a saucer which you have chilled in the fridge. Let the jelly cool for a minute then push it gently with your finger. If it crinkles, it has reached its setting<br />
point. Remove from the heat and skim off any scum using a slotted spoon.<br />
5. Decant carefully into a warm jug and pour into warm, sterilised jars.<br />
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<b>MEDLAR JELLY (Method 2: A Country Harvest cookbook) </b><br />
Put soft, ripe medlars whole into a pan and just cover with water. Cook gently until the fruit is<br />
pulpy. Place into a double layer of muslin, and hang over a basin so that the juice drips into<br />
the basin. Leave overnight. Measure the liquid into a pan. Add 2 cups of sugar for every 2½<br />
cups of juice. Heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves, then boil rapidly until the jelly sets when<br />
tested. Pour into warm, sterilised jars.<br />
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<b>MEDLAR PASTE</b><br />
Sieve the pulp left in the muslin – this can be stored in the refrigerator and used in the recipes<br />
below. It can also be sweetened to taste, maybe add some spices and/or citrus zest, and<br />
used in smoothies, served with yoghurt or ice cream, stirred into porridge, etc.<br />
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<a href="http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/medlar-and-apple-chutney-recipe"><b>MEDLAR AND APPLE CHUTNEY (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall)</b></a><br />
Ingredients<br />
• 3-4 tbsp sunflower oil<br />
• 4 tbsp mustard seeds<br />
• 2 tbsp crushed black peppercorns<br />
• 1 tbsp fenugreek seeds<br />
• 1 tbsp ground cumin<br />
• 2 tsp turmeric<br />
• 1 bulb of garlic, peeled and grated<br />
• 5-7cm piece of fresh ginger, peeled and grated<br />
• 6 fresh red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped<br />
• 2kg Bramley apples, cored and chopped<br />
• 500g dark Muscovado sugar<br />
• 500ml cider vinegar<br />
• 2 tbsp salt<br />
• The left over pulp from the medlar jelly, or about 700g pears, peeled, cored and<br />
chopped<br />
<b>Method: </b><br />
1. Warm the oil in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan over a medium heat and add the spices,<br />
stirring well and frying until the mustard seeds just begin to pop. This will only take a minute<br />
or so – be careful not to scorch the spices. Add the garlic, ginger and chillies, stir well, and fry<br />
gently for few minutes.<br />
2. Tip the chopped apples into a large preserving pan and pour over the spices.<br />
3. Add the sugar, vinegar and salt, along with the left over pulp from the medlar jelly, or the<br />
pears if you are using them instead.<br />
4. Stir over a low heat until the sugar dissolves, then simmer for about 2 hours until thickened,<br />
stirring occasionally and adding a little water if you think it’s beginning to look too thick.<br />
5. Bottle in warm, sterilised jars, filling the jars really full as the mixture will shrink slightly as it<br />
cools. Seal with vinegar-proof lids.<br />
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<b>MEDLAR CAKE (A Country Harvest Cookbook) </b><br />
½ cup butter<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
1 cup medlar pulp<br />
½ -1 cup sultanas<br />
1tsp bicarb<br />
1tsp hot water<br />
½ - 1tsp ground cloves<br />
2 cups plain flour<br />
Grated rind of 1 lemon or orange<br />
¼ cup walnuts<br />
Cream butter and sugar until smooth, and blend in the medlar pulp and sultanas.<br />
Dissolve the bicarb in the hot water and add to the mixture.<br />
Sift the cloves and flour and fold in with the grated rind.<br />
Put into a greased tin and sprinkle with walnuts<br />
Bake at 180C for 1 hour.<br />
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<b>MEDLAR TART (A Country Harvest Cookbook – this is an old Elizabethan recipe)) </b><br />
“Take medlars that are rotten, strain them, and set them on a chaffing dish of coals, season<br />
them with sugar, cinamon and ginger, put some yolks of eggs to them, let it boil a little, and<br />
lay it in a cut tart; being baked scrape on sugar.”<br />
Robert May The Accomplisht Cook 1660<br />
Shortcrust pastry shell (use your favourite recipe)<br />
Medlar pulp<br />
Sugar to taste<br />
Spices – ginger, cinnamon or cloves<br />
Grated citrus peel<br />
Egg yolks<br />
Beat the pulp and egg yolks until thick and smooth. Blend in sugar and spice (amount to suit<br />
your tastes), and grated citrus peel. Spoon into the pie shell and bake at 200C until the<br />
pastry is brown and the filling set (depending on your oven, this should take about 30<br />
minutes.<br />
Variations: You can add some dried fruits (sultanas, glace peel, etc), or nuts. The egg<br />
whites can be beaten to stiff peaks, sweetened with sugar, and piled on top before cooking to<br />
make a medlar meringue pie.<br />
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<b>MEDLAR FUDGE</b><br />
Makes about 4lbs<br />
- 2lbs medlars<br />
- 2 small lemons<br />
- 3 cloves<br />
- 1pint apple cider<br />
- 2lb light brown sugar<br />
- Honey or maple syrup to taste, cream and macaroons to serve.<br />
• Wash and chop fruit, add cloves and cider.<br />
• Simmer until fruit is soft.<br />
• Sieve and weigh the pulp.<br />
• Add three quarters of its weight in sugar and bring back to boil, then bottle and seal.<br />
• When required, whip the fruit cheese with honey or maple syrup until soft, spoon into<br />
bowls and top with whipped cream and broken macaroons.<br />
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<b>MEDLAR COMFITS (ELIZABETHAN RECIPE)</b><br />
Medlars<br />
Honey<br />
Coriander<br />
Cardamom<br />
Ginger<br />
Black Pepper<br />
Butter<br />
Squish the medlars, as many as you have or have patience to squish. (The stuff that's left<br />
after you smoosh your medlars: Pour boiling water over it, and leave to cool. Strain through a<br />
sieve and you have MEDLAR NECTAR.)<br />
Put the pulp in a pan with a like amount of honey, e.g. 1/2 cup medlar to 1/2 cup of honey.<br />
To that, put what seems like a ridiculous amount of spice, e.g. 1/2 teaspoon each of<br />
coriander, cardamom, and ginger, and three freshly smashed peppercorns. Add your butter (a<br />
walnut-sized blob).<br />
Cook over medium heat, stirring all the while with a wooden spoon. It should seethe nicely in<br />
no time, and thicken faster than it should, considering anything exotic should take several<br />
hours. Consider it done when it parts to your spoon, falling back before you can say a twosyllable word. It will be satiny and pourable but not runny.<br />
Pour into an oiled tray or dish to a depth that is as thick as you have patience for, because it<br />
needs to dry. Put aside till it sets firm enough to do what you will with it, which may be two<br />
days later, when it is rubbery enough to come away in one piece when lifted with a knife, but<br />
still pliable enough to be rolled up without cracking.<br />
To make these medlar comfits:<br />
Cut into strips and roll up or cut into shapes (squares or diamonds are easiest). Put them on<br />
waxed paper in a cardboard box. Leave for several weeks at least, not only for the<br />
consistency to be firmer and chewier, but for the spices and honey to properly mellow.<br />
These comfits are spectacularly good eaten with an accompaniment of walnuts. Serve also<br />
with cheese, wine, and with coffee or hot chocolate.<br />
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<b>MEDLAR WINE</b><br />
8 lb / 3,600 grams Medlars<br />
3 lb / 1,350 grams sugar<br />
Pectin enzyme<br />
Water up to 1 gallon<br />
1/2 pint strong black tea<br />
Campden tablet<br />
Yeast nutrient<br />
Wine yeast<br />
Place the ripe fruit in a fermentation bucket and pour over the boiling water. Add 1 lb. of sugar<br />
and an equal quantity of cold water. Add the campden tablet, pectin enzyme and yeast<br />
nutrient and wine yeast. Cover and leave for three days in a warm place, stirring daily. Strain<br />
through a fine sieve and add the rest of the sugar and put into a demijohn and fit an airlock to<br />
seal the jar.<br />
Store in a warm place and allow the fermentation to work. When fermentation has ceased,<br />
rack the wine into a clean jar and place in a cooler environment and leave. When the wine is<br />
clear and stable siphon into bottles.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This week a the co-op find local Persimmons, Lemonades, Rhubarb, tamarillos, quinces, lemons, apples, chestnuts, kale, cos lettuce, rocket, bok choy, chillies, pumpkin, parsley, & beans. Feast on that! More updates over at</span><span style="background-color: #ffffd9; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bmfoodcoop" style="background-color: #ffffd9; color: #7f7f6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">the co-op </a><br />
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Remember to look out too for free ingredients from fellow mountain fruits and nuts sharing their surplus, like these free curry leaves.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0Katoomba NSW 2780, Australia-33.7149546 150.3114074-33.8206316 150.1500459 -33.6092776 150.4727689tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-13407053895088315452013-04-13T16:05:00.000-07:002013-04-13T16:11:08.655-07:00Edible Plants for Sale in Clarendon at the Collectors' Plant Fair Today<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If you're a fruit and nut enthusiast not sure what to do after breakfast today (Sunday 14th April) then you'd do well to head on over to Clarendon, Richmond this to catch day two of the <a href="http://collectorsplantfair.com.au/">Collectors' Plant Fair</a>. It's not such a well publicised event, and only thanks to gardening friend Lloyd this is the first time I've had the opportunity to attend event, rather than just hear about it some weeks later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With talks, plant stalls & refreshments this is easily a full day out. Sunday's talks begin with landscape gardener Michael Bligh on Edible Gardening in a more formal garden context in an eclectic schedule. Plant enthusiasts, garden geeks, books, accessories as well as plants you will rarely see elsewhere all feature at this friendly event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">$12 gets an adult through the turnstile, accompanying under 18's get in for free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We're just there for a morning and so it's my chance to see what small productive plants I can find for my own garden and see the wider range of suppliers all in the one spot. With over 40 nurseries' stalls, it would be easy to be overwhelmed, so I checked out the list of nurseries selling edibles as a shortlist, within those stopping to explore those with whom I felt some accord in their plant selections. I picked up some more unusual herbs like caraway thyme at 5 for $15 at <a href="http://www.fourseasonsherbs.com.au/">Four Seasons Herbs</a> in Coffs Harbour. Bargain! Their stall includes certified organic garlic, saffron corms and even wasabi all at prices lower than advertised on their website. If you're as keen to seek out unusual fruits to keep fresh sources of vitamin C flowing throughout the year, peruse the offerings from <a href="http://www.forbiddenfruitsnursery.com.au/products/pricelist.htm">Forbidden Fruits</a> who have everything from Acerola Cherry <i>(Malpighia emarginata)</i> & Midyim berry<i> (Austromytus dulcis) </i><span style="color: #222222; white-space: nowrap;">to the humungous White Sapote (</span></span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.190340042114258px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Casimiroa edulis)</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; white-space: nowrap;"> tree, at up to 15m high its not one for my tiny backyard unfortunately!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If you discover this post a little later than 'in the nick of time' don't despair, many of the great plants suitable for fruit and nut tree growers are available at some participating nurseries on site or online for the rest of the year through nurseries represented at this event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Visit nearby <a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/bringing_sustainability_to_life/sustainability/community_and_engagement/secret_garden">Secret Garden</a> at the UWS Richmond campus who have an open day coming up in time for Permaculture Day weekend with <i>Autumn Harvest on Saturday 4th May</i>, or locally to our own <a href="http://bluemountainscommunitygardens.org/">Blue Mountains Community Gardens</a> in North Katoomba also be open for plant sales on the morning of<i> May 5th </i>for International Permaculture Day. Online pleasures can be found at <a href="http://www.forbiddenfruitsnursery.com.au/products/pricelist.htm">Forbidden Fruits</a> with their formidable catalogue of unusual fruit, and Heaven in Earth displayed a fabulous range of low key, beautiful and useful gifts made from natural materials for you and your gardening friends. I'll also mention that the wonderfully helpful & friendly booksellers <a href="http://www.florilegium.com.au/">Florilegium</a> carry a range of excellent books on edible gardening including the mighty <a href="http://www.florilegium.com.au/?product=edible-forest-gardens-ecological-vision-and-theory-for-temperate-climate-permaculture-2-vol-set">Edible Forest Gardens</a> volumes, online or in Glebe. Full list of nurseries at this special annual sale available <a href="http://www.collectorsplantfair.com.au/nurseries/">here</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-70081414043567819922013-04-08T15:06:00.000-07:002013-04-19T15:07:16.545-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">This week (8th April) at the Food Co-op local producers have brought in HEAPS: Quinces, figs, limes, apples, plums, chestnuts, beetroot, potatoes, beans, choy sum, chillies, parsley, basil, chives, rhubarb - see regular updates on </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bmfoodcoop" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">their facebook page</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">, share and swap with the</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/402802496463347/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Blue Mountains Foragers' Network</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> and monthly in the mid mountains at </span><a href="http://cropandswap.blogspot.com.au/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Crop and Swap (next meeting April 13th)</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-44482037127933757572013-03-27T15:32:00.001-07:002013-03-27T16:07:17.722-07:00April 6th: Dehydrating Food Workshop<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dehydrating Workshop on Saturday 6 April with Maggie </span><br />
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Or, in more techno speak, a food processing technique that extracts the moisture in foods, thereby inhibiting the growth of microorganisms facilitating the preservation of food for indefinite periods. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dehydration is one of the oldest methods of food preservation – going back to prehistoric people who sun-dried seeds.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Different styles of dehydrating machines will be on display as well as examples of delicious dehydrated food stuffs like: beef jerky, fruit and vege strips, as well as some surprises. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you know you can dehydrate soups and even complete meals? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this workshop is perfect for everyone, no matter where you fall on the dehydrating experience scale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope to see you there. <a href="mailto:maggie53@aapt.net.au">maggie53@aapt.net.au</a> 4782 2441</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-21658128641448068672013-01-21T20:23:00.003-08:002013-01-21T20:23:44.450-08:00Fruit and Nut Events Coming Up<b id="internal-source-marker_0.41917170537635684" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A beautiful morning to meet up and organise events for the fruit and nut tree network at the Community Gardens in Harold Hodgson Park.</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Its still early enough in the day not to accumulate too many mosquito bites we meet to discuss what we might arrange over the summer months. And the outcome? We’re looking forward to delicious combinations of both planned and spontaneous activities based on what the seasons bring, and of course we hope you'll join us....</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">January 29th </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as network members know already, is the date for our popular Summer hands-on workshop: preserving with fowlers vacola with Anne Elliott - contact cloudlands@iinet.com.au to participate and create some beautiful jars of lovely fruit in this uniquely Australian tradition. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find out more at the Slow Food website or see our post on the last session. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summer brings so many fruits and this year is looking like a bumper crop all around, our friends at Todarello's Fruit market on the Bathurst Road, Katoomba will be letting us in on any super big spoils. Bruised fruit may not be acceptable for shoppers' fruit bowls at home, but they're great for preserving as jams, pickles and relishes. So </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">throughout January and February,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> be on alert for news of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fallen fruit jam and rescued relish</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> making sessions which Anne will be hosting any morning there is such a surplus at 11am - FREE </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sunday</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> February 16th </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Love your trees this Valentine’s weekend, and find out all about </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summer Fruit Tree Pruning</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the mid mountains. Ben Gorrick (from Intree Solutions) will be running a masterclass on pruning - there will be the opportunity for lots of questions, and some guided hands-on practice. Kris has several established (and very overgrown) fruit trees (apricot, apple & pear); we’ll be turning these into ‘pedestrian’ height trees with the capacity to turn them into weeping habit to increase productivity. Contact Kris via email </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="mailto:kris@cervelle.com.au">kris@cervelle.com.au</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or call </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0458 626210 to arrange your spot in this workshop (and to help with catering for the refreshments :-) ). </span></b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suggested donations to contribute: $10 waged, $5 unwaged.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">March </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we’ll be organising one of our calendar highlights gathering chestnuts in nearby Mt Irvine with <a href="http://www.kookootonga.com.au/" target="_blank">Kookootonga Farm</a></span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We’re dependent on when the nuts are dropping, so sign up for updates or look out on the fruit and nut tree website to find out more. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saturday April 6th </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The date for a</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dehydrating workshop - no experts. Just curious individuals who want to share helpful tips and information, ask questions and discover more about the diverse products you can make at home with a dehydrator. Bring all your experience to share or come as a beginner and see what it’s all about. - contact Maggie at </span><a href="mailto:maggie53@aapt.net.au" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">maggie53@aapt.net.au</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you’d like to attend. This event is FREE. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Next meeting of the fruit and nut tree network is: </span>Sunday Feb. 24<span style="font-weight: normal;">, 10 am at the Community Gardens in Katoomba. Bring (local) nibbles to share.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-5206840374124212452012-11-27T03:17:00.000-08:002012-11-27T03:17:28.104-08:00PLENTY OF GREEN THUMBS AT FESTIVAL OF THE GREEN<br />
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It was most satisfying for Slow Food Blue Mountains and the BM Fruit and Nut Tree Network to be involved with this Festival. Hard to imagine that a very hardworking P & C of 5 people organised this event! So many hands-on activities covering worm farming, no dig gardening (with guest "verge garden king "and tv presenter Costa Georgiadis, making a special guest appearance) - to raising backyard chickens. </div>
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The whole school was taken over with activities, with scarecrows as direction points. There was even an 'eat street' and numerous stalls featuring handmade and locally-made. The scarecrow competition had some exciting entries, and the waste to art was also popular. Our stall consisted of information on Slow Food, and the BM Fruit and Nut Tree Network as well as the first of our Hands-on 'Cooking From Scatch' activities at local festivals, using local/rescued/bulk food. We invited Festival participants to <span class="s2">make their own muesli from scratch,</span> featuring bulk, organic ingredients from the Blue Mountains Food Coop. There was also educational material available (and taste-testing!) on healthy sugar-free alternatives such as xylitol, which is available in bulk from the Food Coop. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-10754843387891124472012-11-12T17:16:00.000-08:002012-11-12T17:16:19.913-08:00Notes from the Apple Orchards of Mustang<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">We were fortunate this year to go treking in Northern Nepal to a region called Mustang which is famed for its apple orchards. Interestingly no other fruit trees are grown apart from the occasional apricot but Mustang has a lot of apples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The apple orchards however are often located on the high ground above the river where the soil is rocky and sandy and water supply is supplied by snow melt from the high mountains.To see apples thriving in sandy rocky ground with high soil drainage,hot summer sun and no mulch or ground cover only to be surrounded by stone walls 2M high made me think how tough they must be. The only protective factor is wind protection. There is also the added advantage of very few birds !!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">In most orchards however, companion vegetables are grown such as beans/peas to provide nitrogen and cabbages to attract and absorb pests. Interestingly there was often a dead apple tree with an underplanting of tomatoes !!! Tomatoes are obviously toxic to apples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Having said all this, the apple tree is a tough old thing and in my experience it resents being over cared for. So long as soil is very well drained, tree protected from hot strong winds, a steady supply of water via some sort of slow drip irrigation and a good companion planting arrangement should see the apple tree do well in the Blue Mtns. For bird protection grow as a tight hedging arrangement.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-18497428160064867352012-10-30T13:39:00.001-07:002014-04-10T22:40:42.779-07:00Meeting about continuing and expanding our networkWe invite you to a meeting on Sunday 25 November, at 10.30 am at Cloudlands, 6 Banksia Park Road in Katoomba, to discuss how to continue and expand the BM Fruit and Nut Tree Network. Since its rejuvenation a few years ago, Anitra has been the key contact point for the network. Earlier this year, while Anitra was overseas, Kat Szuminska filled that role. Although Anitra returned late in July, she plans to move interstate (back to Victoria) in the near future. The role is already too much for one person so we need to work out ways to keep the network operating and to expand it.<br />
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This meeting will explore different ways that the network can operate. We're particularly interested in hearing from people who can invest time themselves but good ideas are welcome too. One idea is to have more sub-regional nodes, activities which rotate round the upper mountains, lower mountains and mid mountains. Up till now the network has been upper mountains centric simply because more people there have been prepared to offer time to activities there. We have more community gardens throughout our region now to support such activities and lots of members up and down the mountains so there seems to be a lot of potential to grow.<br />
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If you have ideas or can volunteer but can't make this meeting please contact us to discuss your thoughts and offers. Feel free to forward ideas for the agenda now, even though you will be able to add items when we start the meeting on 25 November — to Anitra<br />
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Contact Kat if you want to be involved in a bulk buy of fruit trees from Daleys Nursery: download a free catalogue <a href="http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Catalogue.htm">here</a><br />
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The Blue Mountains Food Co-op welcomes supplies of garden grown fruit and nuts, which you can label with a price or chose to give away free. Look out for this kind of produce there too.<br />
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A little while ago, Kat Anitra and Sue were kindly invited by the Springwood Gardening Club to talk about our little network. Anitra put together these slides which you can share with anyone who would like to know a little more about what we do. Thanks Anitra! If your community group is interested in learning more about growing fruit and nut trees in the mountains or would just like to get together, just get in touch. Contact details may be found at the end of this presentation.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332057206987051460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134865356878548775.post-82765895049140538712012-10-25T04:15:00.003-07:002012-10-26T15:12:59.855-07:00Fruit and nut trees and friends<br />
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The latest Daley's catalogue is out for your perusal! Download as a PDF<a href="http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Catalogue.htm" target="_blank"> here</a><br />
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Flicking through the pages of potential fruit trees for our gardens and properties is truly an exciting experience. The thoughts of sweet smelling fruit trees providing not only fruit but a host of other benefits. Many fruit trees, as well as fruits on the vine are deciduous, growing leaves in summer leading up to Summer Autumn fruiting, then pulling back nutrients and dropping leaves in winter, thus conveniently letting through the winter sun, making them a terrific choice for the hotter northern sides of our homes. <br />
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If you're wondering what grows well where and what to plant in your backyard, or you've been growing for a while and want to update your growing experiences, come on down to the Slow Food stand at the Festival on the Green this weekend in Springwood and have a chat with Anitra and perhaps meet some fellow fruit and nut tree growers too.<br />
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<span style="font-family: CenturyGothic; font-weight: 700;">Festival of the Green
Saturday October 27th 2012
10-4pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;">With Special Guest
Presenter Costa Georgiadis from
Gardening Australia!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;">Sustainable and soil nourishing techniques including composting, worm farming and no dig gardening feature in workshops in this family friendly day out. Great ways to build up the kind of soil you need to give fruit & nut trees as well as other trees and plants in your garden or orchard. </span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;"> </span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;">All that nutrition you might pour on from a bottle of fertilizer from the shops could come through organic matter, nature's recycling. </span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;">Ever wondered how you'd design compost differently for fruit trees over other plants? Find out more with the permies composting demos and discussions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;">Grass is the enemy of many a fruit tree, competing for water soil for starters! With Oasis seedlings for sale (donated, proceeds to the school) you might find a better alternative to plant beneath your trees, companion plants which have a more beneficial relationship with your own fruit trees (and think of not having to mow!) Nasturtiums are said to deter coddling moth and can wind their way around a tree with plenty of light and air. Borage with its long flowering season keeps many a bee and other important pollinating insect happy. Plant scented herbs to deter or confuse pests (and make tea for you! like lemon balm and mint) nitrogen fixing legumes like peas to run up your apple trees, and ground covers play their part as a living mulch, keep water in the soil and provide welcoming microclimates and shelter to call home for beneficial predatory insects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;">Find out more about companion planting and other great seasonal fruit tree growing tips with Anitra representing the Fruit and Nut Tree Network at the Slow Foods Stall. Thanks Anne and Anitra!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;">For heaps more info about this fab festival see their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Festivalofthegreen</span></div>
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