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Do you live in #Hackney E8 and have a fruit tree in your garden that you can't harvest, or can't use all the fruit from? #EastEndJam is expanding its physically distant foraging work to include home grown as well 🙂. Thread 1/ 
Basically we forage, prepare & preserve fruit, making jams, jellies & chutneys that are shared with the people who've worked on them, with excess distributed through local food banks. So far this summer we've made cherry & elderflower jam from Hackney marshes & London Fields 2/
We've made Mahonia jelly from berries picked on the @WETRAE8 estate & Blackstone Estate. You don't have to have a garden to get involved. If you'd like to learn about edible plants, fruits and berries get in touch. We share identification guides & location tips to help you 3/
We foraged, we made jam (& chutney, & jelly). It was funny & hectic & exhausting & there was barely any time to take pictures! #EdibleCity #EastEndJam thanks to @WETRAE8 for hosting plus amazing veg from the community plots.
@WETRAE8 Spending the evening writing the labels for this amazing chutney of apple, courgette, pumpkin, kohlrabi, elderberry, tomato, pear, melon & josephine all grown in Hackney #E8 #EdibleCity #EastEndJam #foragingwithkids
Here's a blog post including the recipes from yesterday's family foraging walk & preserving workshop @WETRAE8 wordpress.com/post/eastendja…
& audiences/participants too -dragging my brain into gear... #EastEndJam
