A Specialty Gin (and a New Orchard!) with a Fruit That's Making a Comeback

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - How to Grow and Cook MedlarJane Steward, author of Medlars – Growing & Cooking, talks about how to grow medlar, how to cook medlar, and shares some fascinating medlar facts. (Find out how medlar wood was used in Dutch windmills!)Steward planted a medlar orchard, holds the UK National Collection of medlars, and runs Eastgate Larder—a food business where she processes medlar.We talk about:How to grow medlar (Mespilus germanica)How to cook medlarSteward’s journey into planting a medlar orchard and starting a food-processing business How to “blet” medlar Medlar rootstockMedlar fruit in Turkey and around the Caspian Sea(Spoiler alert: we also hear about medlar gin and a delicious medlar chutney)“If you want to have medlars in your life you really need to have a tree!”