Video / ODTA community event to celebrate the autumn apple harvest, and with a focus on preserving surplus produce, brought together more than 70 people in Wanaka at the weekend. From primary schoolchildren to the elderly they chopped, pressed or cooked the donated and foraged fruit to make apple chutney and pure apple juice at the seventh Wanaka Autumn Apple Drive at Rippon Hall on Saturday. Any food left over would be donated to the second annual Long Lunch at Rippon Hall held yesterday and the Wanaka Community Food Bank. Chopping fruit for relish at the Wanaka Autumn Apple Drive are Nico Pettit (left), (12), Anika West (11), Siena Dunlop (12), Zoe Gumpatzes (12) and Susannah West (12), all of Wanaka. All food for yesterday's Long Lunch was donated by the Wanaka community and cooked by some of Wanaka's top chefs with all proceeds going to Wanaka charity Food for Love.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 12, 2021 00:00 UTC