A team of 5 of us from LifeCycles Project staff got a lot of value added products made from fruits gleaned around the community this year.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/

Buy our products at upcoming market:
https://www.esquimaltmarket.com/holidaymarket

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Jessie & I finished off jarring the fig jams 🙂

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Come & buy some of our jams, juices & quince paste at this upcoming local market:
https://www.esquimaltmarket.com/holidaymarket

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Come out to Esquimalt Holiday Market on November 23rd, at Archie Browning Arena & buy some awesome apple juice from us! Help support our local food security/food equity non-profit community building work!

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/

https://www.esquimaltmarket.com/holidaymarket

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#Quinces turn into burgundy red, after fully processed.

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Making grape jelly, with concord grape juice.
Stirring strained quince puree to make quince paste(you'll notice the big change in colour, when fully processed).

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Emptying out the large vat of pureed quince, for straining.

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Ruby & Jessie, working on straining pureed quince. Making quince paste.
They were telling me about some giant blender machine, in the larger commercial kitchen, down the hall.

Me: "I'm not going to go in the blender but I'm saying, I want to see the size of it."

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Shortly after I arrived to work with our small LifeCycles Project crew. We made lots of new pasteurized apple juice, fig jam, grape jelly & quince paste. I'll be selling them at Esquimalt Holiday Market on November 23rd, at Archie Browning Arena. Come see me & get some goodies! All profits made go right back into our nonprofit towards operating costs.

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