How to eat loquat, or japanese plums in Turkey

It happened again! My husband came home with a LARGE quantity of something … leaving me to figure out how not to let it go to waste! What will I do with all these loquats? This fruit of many names was new to me after moving to Turkey. “Yeni dünya,” or “new world;” Japanese plum, Maltese plum or loquat, are just a few of its names. How do you eat it? Can you make jam out of it? Can you store it? Where can you find it? Can you grow your own tree?