Following my brief blog post about food waste, I’m pleased to be involved in a project of the Southend in Transition group to help reduce wastage by mapping fruit trees and other edible plants in the Southend area.
A brief outline of the project can be found below, but click on the ‘read more’ link to go to the Southend in Transition site for more information about how to get involved.
Southend Scrumping – Mapping the fruit & wild food abundance in the Southend area
With the harvest season nearly upon us, how can we make sure that wild fruit growing on public land in the Southend area doesn’t go to waste?
Successfully trialled in other areas around the country, community fruit mapping is a great way to share knowledge of where fruit trees grow on public land, making the most of the fruit that they produce, and ensuring that the fruit that these trees produce doesn’t just fall to the ground and go to waste.
The Southend Scrumping Map is a new collaborative project to map all of the fruit trees, and wild and edible plants in the Southend area, and we want as many people as possible to contribute so that, together, we can create comprehensive resource ready for us all to use every year.
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