Your Village Oct/Nov 19
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The<br />
GREEN<br />
CORNER<br />
This month we are focusing<br />
on one of the projects that<br />
our Lymington group have<br />
been involved with.<br />
Abundance Lymington has<br />
been running for the last 5<br />
years. The project is run by an<br />
active group of local volunteers who are working<br />
towards a sustainable SO41 area.<br />
An Abundance of Apples<br />
Abundance Lymington was conceived by Transition Lymington as a way to share the<br />
abundance of apples and other fruits within the community. The concept involves volunteers<br />
picking apples from private gardens and then sharing the harvest between the owners,<br />
volunteers, pre-schools and other local groups. Abundance Lymington has recently expanded<br />
its horizons by sharing how we can best use the apples.<br />
Sharing & Recipe Ideas<br />
• Ask a friend to help your pick your apples, and give them a share of the harvest.<br />
• Make apple puree and freeze it in ice cube trays. You can use 2-3 cubes on your cereal in the<br />
morning.<br />
• Store them in trays. Keep them dry, separate with newspaper and check them regularly for<br />
disease.<br />
• Collect your jam jars and make apple chutney. Search for recipes and make some early<br />
Christmas presents.<br />
• Collect old plastic bottles and juice the apples and freeze the juice. Its brown, but delicious.<br />
• Give bags of apples to your friends and swap recipe ideas with them.<br />
• Dry apple rings in a low heat oven or borrow/share a friend’s food dehydrator.<br />
• Make some stunning ‘apple roses’ with pastry, jam and cinnamon. Hold or cold? With cream<br />
or custard? Dorset apple cake, Apple fritters or see the recipe for Cinnamon apples slices on<br />
the next page. Please note the tip, as you can use either eating or cooking apples.<br />
Recycling Update<br />
Please accept our apologies for some of the entries in the last issue of <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Village</strong>.<br />
Unfortunately, Milford Car Wash are no longer accepting any recycling. However, the good<br />
news is that the zero-waste shop, The Naked Pantry in New Milton accepts these items:<br />
• Outer Biscuit and Cracker Wrappers<br />
• Toothbrushes and Toothpaste tubes<br />
PLUS they donate all money raised from their recycling to Oakhaven Hospice.<br />
If you are visiting The Naked Pantry, why not take along some of your empty jars and<br />
containers for refilling with all your dry goods and household products. If you forget, they<br />
have paper bags for some dry goods.<br />
In addition, Specsavers will take any glasses, glasses cases, contact lenses & packaging. Also<br />
hearing aid batteries. To clarify, neither Specsavers or Age UK take hearing aids.<br />
Happy Autumn Feasts<br />
Sarah and Kate, New Forest Transition<br />
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