The more interesting of the two speaker's I attended was Getty Stewart who inspired me to buy her cookbook, which I swore I would never do once I got used to getting my recipes from sites like allrecipes.com.
There is however much more to the book than recipes including tips on harvesting, storing, dehydrating and preserving.
In fact is has given me so much confidence that I will be able to make use of their fruit in delicious and healthy ways that I have gone out and bought two new fruit trees today for the back yard.
On the left an espaliered apple tree with four different kinds of apples grafted to the stem, and on the right a similarly unusual pear.(Apple / pear pie - yum!)
The session got me to realize that while I am not a vegetable grower I have in fact invested in quite a bit in fruit production: grapes, cherries, Saskatoon berries, blueberries, and now adding pears and apples plus I will add some rhubarb and more Saskatoons this year.
Luckily I will have time to prepare since it should be a few years before full fruit production for most of them - I may need it to learn all about pectins!
