Picking Pears with Abundance

Abundance Founded in 2007 by Stephen Watts and Anne-Marie Culhane, Abundance is a volunteer based organisation that rescues, shares, cooks, and processes fruit which may otherwise go to waste from right across Sheffield. Most of the trees we pick are in private gardens, where we leave 10% of fruit for wildlife. Abundance If we pick a public fruit tree we leave at least a third of the fruit unpicked so it is available to the community. Tree owners have the first share, then they donate the fruit they don’t want, volunteers have some and we share the best fruit with the community (e.g. food banks, lunch clubs, support centres) The rest we cook, preserve or juice together in the community. We love exploring sweet and savoury ways to cook and preserve fruit and sharing recipes. Everyone who joins a preservation workshop gets the recipe and a jar of chutney to take home. All events are an opportunity to meet new people and strengthen social networks, as we are a friendly bunch!