Transition Kensal to Kilburn
Kensal to Kilburn Fruit Harvesters (active project)
We pick over a ton of apples, pears and plums from local back gardens and give most to Foodbanks and community groups.
Why do we do it?
* to reduce waste
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* to raise awareness that food doesn't have to come from a supermarket
* to get to know our community, the place and the people.
What else do we do?
Over 100 harvesters and tree owners contribute each year. We make juice to sell at Queen's Park Day (when that can happen), have a dehydrator for members to borrow, run jam making workshops, Parlour restaurant kindly makes jam for us, we've harvested with children's nurseries, lend a fruit picking tool through the library on Salusbury Road and have planted 40 fruit trees on a local estate and elsewhere.
Contact and visuals
Twitter @k2kfruitharvest
Photos:
Wonderful film about us, by Jonathan Goldberg:
Our jam in Urban Food Awards
Kensal to Kilburn Fruit Harvesters is one of five projects with a chance of an Urban Food Award in the Proper Preserves category – for our Apple and Madagascan Vanilla Jam made by Parlour using locally harvested apples. Please VOTE FOR US by 6th July at londonfoodlink.org.
Janey McAllester
Here's an even more straighforward link to the voting https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/urbanfoodawards_vote
This delicious jam deserves to win!
Jun 13, 2016
Sophia Flucker
Unfortunately we did not make the shortlist but congratulations to Field to Fork who are shortlisted in the best retailer category! http://ttkensaltokilburn.ning.com/group/vegbox
Jul 15, 2016