Wanaka Autumn Apple Drive puts foraged apples to good use 11 Apr, 2021 11:00 PM 2 minutes to read Foraged apples put to good use. Video / ODT Otago Daily Times By: Kerrie Waterworth A community event to celebrate the autumn apple harvest, and with a focus on preserving surplus produce, brought together more than 70 people in Wanaka at the weekend. From primary schoolchildren to the elderly they chopped, pressed or cooked the donated and foraged fruit to make apple chutney and pure apple juice at the seventh Wanaka Autumn Apple Drive at Rippon Hall on Saturday. Wastebusters project manager and one of the event organisers, Sophie Ward, said "it was seeing so many apple trees around Wanaka with fruit falling to the ground and going to waste that prompted the first Wanaka Apple Drive more than seven years ago."