1. Blue Mountains
Fruit and Nut Tree Network
Sharing and collective sufficiency
Anitra Nelson & Kat Szuminska
12 September 2012

2. Why?
• Information sharing
• Skills sharing
• Surplus sharing
• Producing for direct use
• Food security
• Collective sufficiency: public and ‘private’ land

3. bmfruitandnuttreenetwork.blogspot.com
•Posts — information, reports
on activities and local
developments, comments,
discussion
•Activities coming up
•Register — lists of fruit and
nuts harvested in the
mountains and those known
to be growing by village. Slow
Food heritage varieties —
slowfoodaustraliabluemountains.com.au

4. August 2010: Citrus Show and Tell
• Kihilla, Lawson
• Growing
• Preserving
• Household use
• Sharing fruit (buckets)
• Cooking
• Lemonadeand sorbet

5. Blackberry liberation brigades
• Blackberry picking
• Blackberry clearing
• Fruit tree pruning
• Permaculture site design workshop
• Client visions and site potential
• Integrated design, diverse strategies
• Sharing land and produce — Mount Tomah

6. Medlars
• Demonstrations on making medlar jelly,
medlar paste and medlartart
• Talk on making medlarcheese
• Handout withmedlar recipes
• Tea, a slice of tart
and samples of cooking ($6)
• Bullaburra
• Cittaslow: www.cittaslow.org.au

7. Collective sufficiency
TAFE Course
Faulconbridge Crop and Swap
Community gardens
Sharing planet/Caring for people

8. Future activities
• E-bulletin: free to add name to list:
Kat — katska@gmail.com and 0424 563 654
• E-survey and mapping:
https://fruittrees.crowdmap.com/