Incredible Edible Ramsbottom

Hollymount Orchard Juice! Grown just a couple of miles down the road, we're so happy to be stocking this for a limited time and supporting the orchard & @IncredibleEdibleRamsbottom Just a small batch to begin with but by Autumn we hope it's a keeper! "Holly Mount Orchard used to be an abandoned heritage apple orchard that once lay at the heart of the convent at Holly Mount. It has been a project of Incredible Edible Ramsbottom for the last 10 years. In the beginning you could barely see the trees for the Japanese Knotweed, brambles and 20 years of neglect; now it is a wildlife rich, bird loud, local corner of appley heaven. And for the first time ever, this year the volunteers of the orchard have harvested and produced a bottled apple juice from their very own apples - pressed by hand and bursting with the history and love of this unique local orchard. In a year that’s certainly made fundraising difficult, this juice is our sign of hope for the future: all profits from this juice will go directly into the orchard’s activities and help it sustain and thrive into the future." You can also visit the orchard - anyone who's been will tell you what a magical little place it really is.

We think these are INCREDIBLE! A wonderful way to brighten up your home and sew seeds of kindness 💖Photos from Stumberlina's post

Huzzah! The fruits of our hard labour will very soon be available to buy in a bottle!! ...and yes, this is probably the best thing to come out of 2020: our orchard’s apples, squished into juice and getting ready for sale for the first time EVER! And every single penny we make will go straight back into keeping the orchard looking beautiful for its community and healthy for local wildlife. 🍏🍏🍏 Watch this space for details of where to buy soon. WHOOP!! #applelove #localapplejuice #2020silverlining

"Create a bond with some land, whether it's yours or that of a relative, a project, a community garden, etc. Participate with the people who live there, go gradually looking for ways to spend more time in the countryside than in the city, learning to plant, purify water, treat organic waste and heal in nature.⁣ Develop practical skills (cooking, carpentry, machine repair, food processing, sewing, etc. ).⁣ Teach these skills to children, friends and neighbors." ~inspired by Bill Mollison Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution: Bill Mollison Interview https://www.scott.london/interviews/mollison.html Helena Norberg Hodge describes "Localization," an economic model that is respectful of Nature, serves community businesses and local production, not corporations & outside investors. see: "Localization for People & Earth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PucOhupKQa0 Vandana Shiva: Not Globalization, Localization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEQD7hmdUQ See also "The Economics of Happiness".. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyQaUDLW6ts&t=329s "Eco means home, eco means relationships. Let us make a shift from ego to eco, from self interest to mutual interest of whole human society. If we can have a holistic view of soil, soul and society, if we can understand the interdependence of all living beings, and understand that all living creatures – from trees to worms to humans – depend on each other, then we can live in harmony with ourselves, with other people and with Nature." ~Satish Kumar Soil, Soul & Society - Satish Kumar https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article3877-soil-soul-and-society.html "The Stupidity That Rules Us Today" Vandana Shiva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyMHCDqiKGw "We badly need a new economic model "that is not based on hyper profits and hyper consumption, but a model that takes into account the depletion of natural resources. It should not ignore the problems of social development, poverty and the social contradictions that exist in the world… The main point is this model will fail if it does not consider the demands of the environment. This is not a requirement for tomorrow. It is a must for today. We cannot continue living by ignoring environmental problems. The planet is overburdened." ~Mikhail Gorbachev see: “We Need a New Economic Model, the Planet is Overburdened” – Mikhail Gorbachev https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/we-need-a-new-economic-model-the-planet-is-overburdened-mikhail-gorbachev/ Conventional Economics is a Form of Brain Damage. ~David Suzuki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jlyv1hCTr0 "The Purpose of Economy" by Vandana Shiva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnVHq-2H_s Post-Capitalist Economic models are many. When production is owned by workers, local communities, non-profits and/or nations as a whole there is no longer a role for wealthy investors, corporate management, stock markets, big banks and an elite power class. Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus calls banking and business that serves local communities the "Social Business Model." see: "Muhammad Yunus - The Social Business Model" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3XQ3BTd4o

Here’s the headlines from the Orchard fresh into 2021: 1. Happy goodbye-to-last-year!! Hoorah! 2. This Sunday’s volunteer session IS sanctioned to go ahead, despite the move into tier 4. [1.30pm-4pm, pre-registering is essentially via [email protected] - please email by 9am Sunday morning as places are restricted and we are enhancing our guidance for keeping out volunteers safe, which you will need to read about in advance of attending]. 3. We will be focussing on pruning our trees this month. However, pruning fruit trees in January requires a little more skill than pruning your Christmas tree in January (before you then sling it into your brown bin....). So, we are hugely grateful to local expert Darren Turpin who will be on hand (or 2m away from your hands rather) to help explain the art of pruning and guide us on how to prune like pros! Happy New Year all!

Open Source Seeds and the Campaign for Seed Sovereignty are calling for seeds to be brought back into common and collective ownership. They argue that something as universal as food crops should belong to everyone. “Covid made people really understand how our food system is dominated by a few large corporations, and this has put a focus on seed sovereignty,” Sustainable Food Trust The Gaia FoundationSeed saving movement calls for seeds to be publicly ownedwww.theguardian.comCovid has made people see how the food system is dominated by large corporations, say campaigners

Looking for a last minute #gift, we've just delivered some more of our #FREE baby #strawberry #plants to Market Square, #Ramsbottom so please come & help yourself and give someone you love the #Christmas gift that keeps on giving: Incredible Edible #strawberries 🍓🍓🍓 #Christmas2020 ✨ This is Rammy Kind Bury Bury Times Rossendale Free Press Rossendale Radio