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West Ealing Family Day Saturday 23rd October 9am – 4pm October 17, 2010

West Ealing Neighbours, local businesses and traders and the Council have joined together to put on the first ever West Ealing Family Day. Across the centre of West Ealing in Leeland Road, Melbourne Avenue and St James Avenue we will be putting on a series of events and activities for all the family. The three streets will be differently themed:

Leeland Road will have a specially extended farmers’ market with apples as a theme (it’s Apple Day on October 21st). There will be an exhibition of over 100 rare and different varieties of apple, cider tasting, apple and spoon racing and an apple juicing demonstration

Melbourne Avenue will be for food and entertainment with a stage set up for a variety of local music and dance events as well as children’s entertainment and food stalls

St James Avenue is all about what people local people are producing, whether its crafts or artworks, and will play host to the first ever street craft market in West Ealing. We will be busy making apple and pear juice all pressed from locally picked fruit and St James Church will house an art exhibition by the Brent Lodge Park Arts Collective – a collective of artists with and without learning difficulties. The Church will also open its cafe where you can put your feet up and try locally made cakes and sandwiches. There’s also kids activities in the Church including a kidzone play area, face painting and singing!

Please do come along and support us and help make this first ever Family Day a success… and, if it’s a success, maybe we can gain enough support to make it an annual event.

 

West Ealing Family Day Saturday 23rd October 10am – 4pm October 7, 2010

Come along for a great day out for all the family!

 

Chiswick Fruit Day Saturday 16th October 2010 September 15, 2010

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Chiswick Fruit Day Flyer 16th October

Hi all

My Abundance London friends from Chiswick are running their first Fruit Day on Saturday 16th October at St Michaels & All Angels, Bath Road W4 1TT (closest tube is Turnham Green) There will be lots of activities including apple pressing, apple bobbing, toffee apples, jam making workshop and much, much more. I think it will be a great day for all the family so please go along and show your support.

 

Apple & Pear Season is upon us… September 8, 2010

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Over the past few weeks we have all been working our socks off responding to requests for us to pick fruit in private gardens. Lots of pears this year falling off the trees before they are ripe for picking so we have set up a box scheme for pears as well as windfall apples for the owners to place the fruit in.

We have enlisted a member of West Ealing Neighbours to pick the fruit up on a weekly basis on his bike + trailer to drop off at a central storage point. This is yet to be tested as first pick ups start next week but we are positive this will work!

We are also getting a steady stream of volunteers happy to pick for us, which is brilliant news.

As my picking visits are limited due to a little 3 1/2 year old I am busy making jams and being the central point for picking up fruit/jars/sugar etc for our network of jam makers.

The logistics of making all this work makes my headache! Thanks so far to the invaluable help of David and Elizabeth Highton who are devoting nearly all their spare time to this project at present.

 

Don’t forget our Fruit Map on WEN’s Website August 7, 2010

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We have loads of locations plotted now – Apples, Blackberries, Damsons, Elderflowers, Pears and Plums, so go to this location to find them.

Happy hunting!

http://www.westealingneighbours.org.uk/abundanceMap.html

 

 
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