New businesses participating in the Fruit Exchange this year
“The Fruit Exchange is going into its third year with a host of new participating businesses on board.
The Fruit Exchange is a local scheme that aims to enable people to exchange their surplus home-grown produce with participating businesses.
We launched in 2015 and the project has since gone from strength to strength.
We raise awareness, recruit businesses and provide a useful resource for people who have fruit they don’t know what to do with!
Our aim is to keep food local, to reduce food waste, and to bring communities together.
With hundreds of varieties of imported fruit and vegetables now available much of the year round, the seasons can lose their meaning.
Yet the summer months in Britain bring a wide variety of fruit: gooseberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, raspberries, apples, pears, plums, cherries, figs, blackberries, quinces, blueberries and more.
This isn’t just about fruit through!
Any surplus produce is more than welcome – got too much beetroot?
A walnut tree which is overloaded?
Get us involved and don’t let all that wonderful food go to waste.
Perhaps you aren’t even sure of what you have, or when it will be ripe?
Please let us know as early as possible, so nothing goes to waste!”
downtoearthstroud.co.uk/growing-together/the-fruit-exchange1/
facebook.com/thefruitexchangeglos/
twitter.com/fruitexchange2
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