Abundance at First Transition Nottingham Market!

Here are Aiden and Sam at the first Transition Nottingham Market in Sneinton on saturday 12th December 2009!

Abundance Celebrations at People’s kitchen this Saturday!

Hot off the press: Abundance gets juicy!

Thanks to invaluable support from Sprout at the Partnership Council and to donations for our chutney and jam, Abundance has managed to raise enough money to invest in a Fruit Press! This means we get to have fun juicing, but more importantly it means that we can put much much more fruit to very good use and distribute even more.

Apple day the Abundance way!

Last Sunday we had a stall at St. Ann’s Community Orchard for ‘Apple Day’.  It was a fantastic event – the sun was shining and we had lots of fun roasting chestnuts and making apple chutney!

Lots of people also signed up as volunteers to help out with the project and we were told about lots of other trees that need harvesting!

Here are some photos from the day:

St Ann’s Allotment Community Orchard Activity Day: Sunday 18th October 11-4, St Ann’s Allotments.

St Ann’s Allotment runs Activity Days on its Community Orchard on the third Sunday of every month. They provide healthy, practical and fun activities for local people and encourage children to play in the outdoors.

We’ll be having a stall there and will be making chutney and roasting chestnuts, and also making some apple pickers. We need people to help out on the day with the following:

- manning the stall
- chutney making
- roasting chestnuts
- helping get ingredients for apple pickers
- general Abundance promotion
- transporting stuff there and back

Please get in touch if you are able to help out with any of the above, and if not hope you can still come along and enjoy the day. We will be harvesting on the allotments for chutney ingredients!

For more information about St Ann’s, visit http://www.staa-allotments.org.uk/events/activity.htm

Article on ‘Abundance’ in BBC News Magazine

‘Abundance’ seems to be a really big topic at the moment.  Somebody involved with the Nottingham project recently pointed out this article on todays BBC  News Magazine:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8280425.stm

It’s great that people are talking about it!

First Trees Harvested and Jams and Crumbles Made!

A group of volunteers have been out harvesting the first fews trees in Nottingham already!  Lots of fruit was turned into jams and crumbles and tasters were given away at the launch event at the Urban Harvest Festival! (Fresh fruit was also given away!)

Some of the apples were also pressed into fresh apple juice at the Urban Harvest Festival and delivered to the Refugee Forum.

Here are some photos of the launch:

Launch at Urban Harvest Festival!

Hello, this is the site for the Nottingham Abundance project!  Thanks for visiting us, we are just getting going….

We plan to launch the project officially at Transition Nottingham’s Urban Harvest Festival on Sunday 27th September, Greens Mill, Sneinton. 11-4pm

http://www.transitionnottingham.org.uk/urbanharvest

Please come and chat to us there!