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41 Goodgymers helped their local community in Sheffield
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Monday 29th October 2018
Report written by Tom Mutton
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WOW, just WOW!
On our 2nd birthday we had an amazing, incredible, unbelievable 41 runners rock up for the evenings task!
This week we had a slightly longer and hillier run to help Lucy from Abundance with their fantastic work of helping to collect apples that would otherwise go to waste in the city.
After a long hard slog up Cemetery road we met with Lucy who took us to a particularly big tree that was ripe for the picking.
We got a very thorough brief from Lucy re the process for the eve which involved;
- Collecting the 'windfall' apples from the floor
- Passing onto the sorting team who graded, sorted and weighed the apples
- Picking some of the reachables
- Doing a mass shake of the tree with a huge tarp underneath to grab as many as poss - what a sight!
The grand total was 128.5kg!
30kg were 1sts (fruit in good condition) of which 20kg went to the tree owner and 10kg was shared with Roshni Asian Community Centre and Learn For Life English Teaching Centre (both in the Highfield area of Sheff). The rest of the apples were shared with all volunteers, went towards their community juicing event at Feast In The Forest Fair and will be used for future chutney/juicing sessions and cooked at the Harvest Festival with New Roots, held at New Roots. Sat 3rd Nov.
Big congrats to Caroline for hitting 100 deeds and running with her wings and looking angelic.
Once all done we headed back to our friends at Regather for Birthday celebrations which included a lot of laughs, beers, great food and a massive cake! HUGE thanks to Kim and Steve for all their help bringing the party together!
Until next time, happy running :)
Session Leader
This task supported
Abundance is in it’s 10th year of sharing skills in harvesting, sharing, cooking, preserving, juicing and storing fruit.
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!
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