Batch 99. Last lot of pears to be processed!

Batch 99. Last lot of pears to be processed. It's been a big effort harvesting and processing this year- basically days spent in the Tinui Food Forest kitchen. Even as I write this I'm sitting here in my apron and hairnet waiting for batch 100 (Tomato Relish) to cook. Funny eh?! . And no, I'm not going to provide a photo of me in the hairnet!

The cost of being in the kitchen is that I don't get anytime to work in the Food Forest- which is a bit frustrating. The good news is- well you wouldn't even know it! Admittedly the Food Forest is looking - shall we say- abundant- over grown- and definitely "messy"- but hey we don't worry about that do we (remember only people like it tidy, nature needs a mess, etc etc!). My latest way of describing the Food Forest approach is that it is 'pre-industrial"- and by that I mean it harks back to an era before fossil fuel "tidyness" became the norm- so the 99.95% of us who were peasants did not have access to lawnmowers and we had to live with the "mess"- much to natures delight.

In these uncertain times we may all well be facing pre-industrial growing- so you're all welcome here to have a look!