{"id":128,"date":"2013-11-12T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foraginginbirmingham.spiderstudio.co.uk\/?p=128"},"modified":"2013-11-12T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T11:52:12","slug":"sweet-red-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/sweet-red-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Red Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1391800_10151980408266774_356284037_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129\" alt=\"1391800_10151980408266774_356284037_n\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1391800_10151980408266774_356284037_n.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Apples<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Apple Trees!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Months:<\/strong>\u00a0October, November<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edible Parts:<\/strong>\u00a0All except maybe the stalk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Edible Parts:<\/strong>\u00a0Stalk? The Tree?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While cycling through one of the many scenic cycle routes in Birmingham I came across a wonderful array of sweet red apple trees. I almost passed it by completely in my speed but the rate they were dropping had quickly created a red blanket in the corner and more were dropping as I looked. After a quick taste test I found these were not the lesser valued crab apples but sweet dessert apples of a most gloriously syrup like nature. I have never tasted a sweeter, crunchier apple in my life. Not a single ounce of powdery taste or bitterness.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many apples there I could not fit them all into my backpack, so return journey&#8217;s are on the cards! I always find it truly amazing how many people just walk past these little golden finds and surely a red apple is as obvious a food source as it gets?<a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1426419_10151980407711774_174364279_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130\" alt=\"1426419_10151980407711774_174364279_n\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1426419_10151980407711774_174364279_n.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1465299_10151978165191774_591760497_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-131\" alt=\"1465299_10151978165191774_591760497_n\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1465299_10151978165191774_591760497_n.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh well more for us! After picking up as many as I could possibly hold before the last of the daylight condemned me to utter darkness, I took them home and began the therapeutic task of washing and scrubbing the apples clean and sorting them into piles of bruised and undamaged. The undamaged ones are going to be used for eating and the bruised ones will be for cider with any luck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name:\u00a0Apples Location:\u00a0Apple Trees! Months:\u00a0October, November Edible Parts:\u00a0All except maybe the stalk Non-Edible Parts:\u00a0Stalk? The Tree? &nbsp; While cycling through one of the many scenic cycle routes in Birmingham I came across a wonderful array of sweet red apple trees. I almost passed it by completely in my speed but the rate they were dropping had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/sweet-red-apples\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweet Red Apples<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,4,26,22],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forage","category-freefood","category-november","category-october","tag-apple"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}