#plums — Public Fediverse posts
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Greengage plums.
My daughter had to hand-fertilize the flowers because the companion plum didn't bloom.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #Plums #OurGarden #FruitTrees #FruitScrolling -
Fruit Vendor at Gaegeum Alley Market by Javier Pimentel
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjkYtX2ei00
#2470mm #asia #busan #city #ciudad #comida #cultura #culture #eastasia #food #fotografíanocturna #fruit #fruta #gaegeum #gaegeumalleymarket #gaegeumgwangmyeongmarket #korea #locallife #market #mercado #nightphotography #nikkorz2470mmf28s #nikon #nikonz8 #peaches #plums #produce #pusan #republicofkorea #southkorea
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More #fermentation #fermenting
This time, #plums
Our plum tree is the tree which keeps on giving.
We have had so many plums that we strewed half and I decided to ferment some.
You'll see the current collection, plus the to-be fermented plums on the right.
It's a big Mason jar. I hope this goes well and doesn't mould. I've gone for a 3.5% salt solution by weight of fruit and water, to try and ensure things like kham yeast don't form.
Oh -- my wife provided the labels. Had I done this, the legibility would have been zero... ;)
Wish me luck!
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‘Doves and food and fun’: the fight to save a farming pioneer
#Wakelyns needs £1.2m to save its diverse organic crops and ‘micro’ enterprises including a bakery and honeybee hives
"It’s almost a political project about land use – maximising the #sustainable productivity of the land." - David Wolfe
by Patrick Barkham
Tue 30 Jun 2026 06.00 EDT"The aerial view of Wakelyns matches the experience of visiting it at ground level: in a region dominated by prairie fields of industrial agriculture, here lies a vivid green lung of land. Its sounds and sights in summer – the sleepy purr of the turtle dove, the vivid pink flash of a bullfinch – have vanished from most of the British countryside.
"But Wakelyns is not a nature reserve – it is a thriving farm, a 'living laboratory' for #agroforestry and a hub for innovation and business. It is also under threat, and its owners must raise £1.2m to turn it into a charitable community benefit society.
"The 56-acre former pig farm in Suffolk was bought by Martin and Ann Wolfe in 1992. Martin was a government plant pathologist who wanted to do more innovative research than his employers had allowed. Seeking to farm crops with fewer pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, he created one of the first agroforestry schemes in Europe.
"Turning productive cereal-growing fields into 56 narrow 'alleys' of farmed land between rows of planted trees had been 'widely regarded as mad', said their son, #DavidWolfe, an environmental lawyer who now runs Wakelyns with his wife, Amanda Illing. 'The farmer who sold the land to them said: ‘You’ve ruined a perfectly good wheat field’.'
"Today, Wakelyns is an inspirational example of agroforestry, which has become official government policy. The government’s carbon delivery plan wants to turn 10% of arable land into agroforestry by 2050, with financial incentives to encourage more farmers to transition into something like Wakelyns.
"The lush trees that divide the alleys are all crops. After more than 30 years, some are tall trees for timber, while others provide #apples, #cherries and #plums. The most lucrative tree crop is #hazel, which is coppiced on a seven-year cycle to produce high-quality hazel stakes for traditional hedgelayers. Each stake is sold for £1.40 and Wakelyns cannot grow enough.
The farm’s motto is '#ResilienceThroughDiversity'. It pioneered the first commercial #lentil growing in the UK, and is still the country’s only commercial #BlackLentil grower. 'If Britain is serious about wanting to feed itself, we should stop growing oilseed rape for biodiesel and grow #pulses,' said Wolfe.
"Wakelyns’ diversity encompasses a uniquely genetically diverse population of wheat and multiple varieties of apple tree. When big orchards, which typically grow a narrow range of apple varieties, complain of a terrible harvest, a mixed orchard such as Wakelyns’ is fine, because every year some varieties thrive. #Monocultural farmers, says Wolfe, 'put it all on red or black'.
"Wolfe and Illing took over the farm in 2020 after Wolfe’s parents died. To the innovative farming principles, they added 'enterprise stacking', bringing people back to the land via a series of symbiotic relationships."
#SolarPunkSunday #Trees #UK #MutualAid #HempTextiles #FoodSecurity #FoodForests #CropRotation #CropDiversity #OrganicFarming #SupportUKFarms #SupportLocalFarmers
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We're lucky enough to have a plum tree in our garden. This year it seems he's gone crazy with the amount of fruit he's producing.
The plums are smaller than usual and seem to be bunched on the tree a bit like grapes.
We're picking them slightly earlier than usual so they ripen indoors; there's going to be another heatwave here in England, so we don't want the fruit to rot.
As to what we're going to do with all these plums... open to suggestions! Obviously we'll eat lots. I plan on making plum crumble, plum jam, and plum chutney. I'll also add some to gin or vodka.
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I moistened and removed the skins of the seeds on everything that was up today. 7 pots of plums growing. I was worried the dry tops would shrink wrap them. In the wild they'd be coming out of the pit which I assume would be stuck to skin part. Much easier than doing this with pepper seedlings.
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The first plum leaf is out!
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A couple of the plum pots are showing some green and a lot of them are showing signs of pushing the soil up.
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The plum seeds I've had in the refrigerator for 5 weeks or so have started to sprout so they were put in pots. They're from red South African plums. I looked up the possible varieties they could be and the pollinators all seemed to match up to something else that is a marketed plum so they might make edible fruit. 12 seeds in 9 pots, 4 weren't showing so I put them all in the same pot.
#gardening #plums #SeedStarting #ColdStratification #GrowYourOwn
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Community comes together as Mount Pleasant Food Forest takes root
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) — Volunteers in Mount Pleasant spent Sunday planting the town’s first food forest, a project leaders say will provide fresh produce, create community connections and grow i…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #blueberries #foodforest #MountPleasant #oranges #plums #r.l.jonesrecreationcenter #root
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2606645/community-comes-together-as-mount-pleasant-food-forest-takes-root/ -
A “Walk the Line” or “Ray” style biopic of William Carlos Williams where his wife gets super mad at him for eating her plums and he writes that poem to win her back
#thisisjusttosay #plums -
It's all about the plums.
The old Santa Rosa, the new air layered from it Santa Rosa, Brooks, and Imperial Epineuse plum trees. More in the alt text.
#orchard #gardening #plums #FruitTrees #April13 #SantaRosaPlum #ImperialEpineusePlum #BrooksPlum #GrowYourOwn #AirLayering
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I bought some "ripen at home" #plums the other day which turned out to be overly ripe, underwhelming in taste, and unappetising in texture.
I am quietly confident that putting them in this will improve them immeasurably 🙂
I've even been for a nice 4 mile walk* so I deserve the treat.
(*Admittedly this was to the village and back to buy double cream to go with it 😂 )
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Catharina Klein - Still Life with Plums, 1926 - Postcard
https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/catharina-klein-still-life-with-plums-1926-postcard-235918007.htm
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Behold, a feeding frenzy of Plum Sharks!
Plum sharks AKA kererū, the NZ wood pigeon.
Plums are in full fruit in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, at the moment. I was on Valley Road today in Cashmere there were at least 11 kererū feasting in the plum trees up the side of the road.
I think plums are one of the big reasons that these birds venture down from the hills into the city at this time of year.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/333255361
#birds #fruigivory #plums #Prunus #woodpigeon #pigeons #kererū #nz #Christchurch #nature #iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ