More Free Food

An interesting session on Birmingham radio BRMB recently, on scavenging free food in the Midlands. A caller mentioned a restaurant offering free entrées, but the host correctly noted that such a deal requires the diner to stay and pay for the main, rather than disappearing after wolfing down a first course. More useful were locations of fruit trees in public parks. For example Canon Hill Park in Edgbaston contains various fruits. And there's a pear tree in a park in Walsall. This got me wondering why Perth parks aren't growing useful crops. For instance instant of ornamental trees, why not a citrus where the fruit can be of some benefit?  It would be wonderful to head over to Lake Monger reserve, and come home with a basket full of lemons, truffles, magic mushrooms and quinine. And with a little more work, I can make aspirin from the bark of the willow trees.

Half a pair of pears