Brighton Permaculture Trust’s Fruit Factory is all about local food Watch the video here…

Here’s their message: ‘One week ago we launched a crowdfunding campaign to complete our straw bale Fruit Factory. You can watch our short video about it here…

One of the Brighton Permaculture Trust’s key projects for the last six years has been our pop-up scrumping project – turning unwanted and wasted fruit into delicious produce.

Now, we want to scale-up the scrump. We need to raise £12K in 30 days for the completion of our straw bale ‘Fruit Factory’. Located in an old tractor shed in Stanmer Park the straw-bale renovation will be used for the processing of local and seasonal fruits into jams, chutneys, and juices. The Fruit Factory could process up to 40 tons of fruit a year – the equivalent of 250,000 apples!’ More…