In addition to peaches, we foraged for walnuts at the dentist’s house on Sunday. Even more than the peaches, the walnuts illustrate what I so like about the dentist. He and his family don’t like walnuts, and they don’t have a walnut tree. The walnuts at his house come from the neighbour’s tree, planted on the fence line and hanging over into his paddock. He won’t use them himself, but every year he collects them and gives them away. As a well-paid dentist, he has no reason to be concerned about a little food waste, but he cannot bear to see good food rot. Even if it is food he won’t eat himself, he takes the time to gather it up and make sure it is eaten by someone.

If every person in the developed world just cared as much about the people and resources around them, imagine how much less waste, less pollution, less strife there would be. To care and to share…wouldn’t it be lovely.