The cherry is an endangered species. In the last 50 years we’ve lost 90% of our cherry orchards and now import around 95% of the cherries we eat.
That's why, in order to come to the cherries aid, the focus of the Sustainable Haringey Summer Gathering's opening hour was 'A convivial celebration of cherries and plums'.
We started with an outdoor cookery demo by Sarah Moore who demonstrated how to make cherry gazpacho (divine!) and delighted my two nippers with a delicious plum jam that she had brought along.
My children, smeared with plum jam, quickly added (vegan) chocolate and cherry cake to their faces as they happily polished off a plate of goodies that someone had left in front of them. The cakes were provided by members of Urban Harvest who had gathered the fruit used to make the treats from places in Haringey such as Tottenham Marshes and Stationer's Park.
The lure of the Railway Fields playground was becoming stronger but, before we went to play on the swings, I managed to collar Phil England from Sustainable Haringey, who quickly explained one of the projects that was going to be discussed in the more formal part of the meeting.
Phil explains how a sustainable food project in Hackney could soon cross the border into Haringey.
For more information on Sustainable Haringey and to sign up for the newsletter that Phil mentions visit
http://sustainable-haringey.wikispaces.com and you can also keep up with their news on Facebook.
Yes, yes I know, you clicked on this post to find out how to make Cherry Gazpacho. Sarah's recipe for it is on her blog Mudpies and Minestrone . Quantities are simply guidelines by the way and you can use ordinary tomatoes but I probably don't have to tell the foodies of Harringay that!
1 comment:
Hi thanks for your comment. It was a lovely way to spend a few hours. Thanks for helping my kids to pick blackberries...its one of their fave things to do.
Liz
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