not just supermarkets lesley, the general public in the western world fail to utilise food.
every year for the past 11 years this tree 2 doors from me is laden with cooking apples and every year they fall to the ground to rot or trodden on. this photo was taken 2 days ago with just a few left.
we live in the era of the freezer, i often wonder how many hundreds of delicious apple pies and jars of chutney the tree could deliver each year.