Comments on: In The Orchards Of Kent https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1453773 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:06:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1453773 such beautiful fruit photographs, hope some will be made very permanent in a book!

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424520 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:33:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424520 I am also an apple a day person so it was wonderful to see and hear about all the varieties of my favourite fruit… They all looked delicious! Thank you.

]]> By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424406 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:56:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424406 GA, I draw flora and some fauna. People say my work looks medieval. Now, you have introduced me to medieval dream poems. Thank you. Now, I shall see where this goes.
Your aesthetic and the photographs are gorgeous.

]]> By: Joan Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424280 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:26:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424280 Beautiful photographs and accompanying narrative.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424204 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:08:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424204 An apple a day keeps the doctor away. I have a variety of sweet English apple daily. I dont know its name . I have a doctor but I dont know his name either There is always a grain of truth in old folklore..

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424191 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:15:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424191 Greetings from Boston,

GA, enjoyed your essay and Rachel’s great pics of October’s bounty in Kent. Reminds me of the opening lines in Keats’s poem “To Autumn.”

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core…”

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424189 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:50:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424189 2,200 varieties of apples! 500 varieties of pears! It’s a priceless treasure. Absolutely priceless in a world where uniformity is slowly taking over. I have no words either, I’m stunned. All I can say is that it is marvelous. Thank you!

]]> By: Esther https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424164 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:44:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424164 I enjoyed your story about the orchyards 🙂 Reminds me of one wonderful day when hubby and me spontaniously visited a friend who lived on a farm outside Amsterdam and where we got invited harvesting all her pear trees. I am always surprised at people who have fruittrees in their frontgarden and who let all the fruit rot away; not caring about their trees. Would love to have a garden with an orchyard….

]]> By: Lorraine WHEBELL https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424162 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:40:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424162 Wonderful..where does all this fruit go? Not to the supermarkets unfortunately ?

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/21/in-the-orchards-of-kent-x/#comment-1424155 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:59:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189225#comment-1424155 I looked at all the lovely varieties of fruit here and it made me wonder why Britain imports so much when there is fantastic food on the doorstep. One thing I have enjoyed about the 5 years I have lived in Switzerland is the fact supermarkets source produce within a certain radius locally and people here still eat very seasonally, often shopping from day to day like my late mother’s generation of post war housewives.
It just makes sense to people here as it supports local farmers, orchards, cheese makers etc. Apartment life makes me realise how much I miss the house and vegetable garden we had in Scotland!

Also, thank you to Achim for mentioning the people of Aberfan today. I grew up in a Scottish mining community and this terrible disaster resonated with everyone, especially parents.

Love and peace to Achim.

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