End of season harvest projects -espeically summer fruit - Gathering the troops and supplies and venturing into the land of falling fruit to collect and process for preservation and storage as well as a crisp or two for the evening's celebrations!
Location: Bellingham
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The vision for this group is to be in the flow of the season, anticipating the appropriate gleaning time for the various fruits of this abundant Bellingham, in order to be ready to take advantage of what nature provides freely. These projects could easily evolve into a community cottage industry based on integrity and barter, where tedious work is made efficient and social by working together as a community. Not everyone needs to own a cider press, or all the canning equipment necessary to make jam, so we will utilize Share to Build, Craigslist, and connections on the grape vine to coordinate fruit trees, supplies, and people to make it happen this season. There will also likely be a end-of-the-year harvest bartering festival early in October to celebrate and exchange the goods.
Please read my blog post, which may give you an idea of my inspiration and passion for starting this group.
http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profiles/blogs/harvest-a-creative-essay-by
I also ran across this blog, that I really resonated with. Enjoy!
http://www.livinginseason.com/food-drink/good-enough-to-wait/
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Earth Gardens: Edible-Medicinal-Wild Habitats:
http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/organic
Center for Local Self Reliance
http://www.caretakershouse.org/
Small Scale Food & Gardening
http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/subgroupfoodnotlawnsgroupsoontoberenamed
Started by Christie Cassel. Last reply by Kate Clark Mar 30, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
The fist signs of Spring our showing up in our area. Exciting!It's a good time to re-group and sets goals and intensions for this up-coming gleaning season. So, I'd like to hear from all of you -…Continue
Started by Christie Cassel Jun 4, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes
I attached a pdf file of the revised formatted version for you to print and spread around, here's the text:You take the best, and we’ll take the rest!The Bellingham Gleaning Network is a project…Continue
Started by Christie Cassel Apr 28, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes
The first step to focus on currently, is to compile a calendar of what plants are in season when, so we can plan our gleaning one fruit at a time. This is what I have so far, but my memory of last…Continue
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Great! Sounds like there is some interest in this. I propose that on Monday we meet at 5:00 pm at the Bloedel Donovan Parking Lot, head up to Squalicum Mountain (via Academy) with bags, gloves, etc. and pick a bunch of nettles. We can figure out where and when to make the pesto at that point. Given the higher elevation of the patch, I think they are still good for picking (they were last week).
Abe, I would love to do this....hopefully this patch is not close to flowering, then we would need to move up into the mountains or somewhere where they are less mature...I'm in! I can bring all my own jars as well! :) 756-9919 I'm free Monday!
That sounds like a fun idea! And now is the time to grab those nettles, as they will flower soon.
There hasn't been much discussion for a while, but I am keen to glean. I was thinking it would be fun to organize a nettle pesto party where we make and can or freeze a bunch of nettle pesto. Anyone interested? I know a spot with acres of nettles...
Hey Gleaners! Sorry I've pretty much dropped the ball this year. Would anyone else like to organize an apple glean?
Sorry!
I need to step out of an administrative role, so what I'm going to do is make every member an administrator and see what happens!
Very Communal, eh?
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