Fruit and Blossom Group (FAB)
Sustainable Cupar's FAB
FAB is part of Sustainable Cupar's environment sub-group. This group is keen to involve the local community in preserving and developing the town's natural and cultural fruit heritage.
It is hoped that our projects will also help bring the whole community together, and give Cupar a strong identity in Fife as a centre of fruit production.
We encourage people to recycle as much food/garden waste, by making their own garden compost and promote the Cupar farmers market, where locally produced, high quality food can be bought.
FAB Aims
|
growing more fruit promoting Scottish heritage fruit increasing skills and knowledge improving physical health and emotional well being promoting friendship reducing carbon emissions improving the local environment for all Encouraging the planting of native trees Supporting 'Cupar in Bloom'. |
Group Activities
Cupar was traditionally a fruit-growing area and, like many other towns nearby, the remnants of old orchards can still be seen. The FAB group help look after the current Community Orchard based near to the site of one of the old orchards and also has a Fruit Growing Plot at Elmwood College.
FAB has also organised community fruit orders, and helped to maintain fruit trees in nursing homes and nurseries. In 2017 we also collected apples donated from Cupar residents which were used for jucing and for donations to the local foodbank.
New volunteers are always welcome at FAB events, check out the diary either on the website or on Facebook for our latest activities.
Get involved
Please see the Event page for further details.
There is a Google Group for Sustainable Cupar's FAB, to join please complete the contact form on the right hand side.
