On Friday I posted on local Facebook sites that we wanted to swap our homemade preserves for people's surplus apples and pears. We explained that we needed them for fodder for the goats over the winter but we would also use some to make more preserves. The result was very encouraging: people with more apples and pears than they knew what to do with from trees in their gardens got in touch and I've spent much of the weekend visiting people to collect the surplus fruit. The Land Rover is now full! People were very happy to let us have the apples and pears just to avoid the waste.
We are still collecting surplus fruit - indeed tomorrow I will be making more calls. We also have more apples to collect from the tree on our Farside plot. We have 6 sacks already but there are still some apples on the tree. We will now sort the fruit and use up the bashed ones in preserve making. The rest will go into storage for the winter for the goats.
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