#falling fruit

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if you have an eye for edible plants, dumpster diving, free markets, or if you're interested in learning more about them you should definitely check out (and contribute to) fallingfruit.org i believe this from the bottom of my heart.

[gladiolusarchive]

Falling Fruit

A Resource for Urban Foraging!

Add your favorite foraging spots to their community-driven map!

Their Mission, from their website:

“Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on an interactive map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, to fight the scourge of stained sidewalks, and to reconnect with the botanical origins of food.

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[nolaplantdaddy]

i have a note in my phone with saved coordinates of public fruit & when it'll be ripe. i added this pear tree to that list today 🍐

for those new to foraging, there's also a website called Falling Fruit that is essentially google maps but for edible fruit. that's a great place to start if you need help identifying local trees.

[apple-pie-42]

Falling Fruit

A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and sha

for people who need help getting food

[arte1misia]

About the project

Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on an interactive map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, to fight the scourge of stained sidewalks, and to reconnect with the botanical origins of food.

Our edible map is not the first of its kind, but it aspires to be the world's most comprehensive. While our users contribute locations of their own, we comb the internet for pre-existing knowledge, seeking to unite the efforts of foragers, foresters, and freegans everywhere. The imported datasets range from small neighborhood foraging maps to vast professionally-compiled tree inventories. This so far amounts to 4,039 different types of edibles (most, but not all, plant species) distributed over 1,952,558 locations. Beyond the cultivated and commonplace to the exotic flavors of foreign plants and long-forgotten native plants, foraging in your neighborhood is a journey through time and across cultures.

Join us in celebrating hyper-local food! The map is open for anyone to edit, the database can be downloaded with just one click, and the code is open-source. You are likewise encouraged to share the bounty with your fellow humans. Our sharing page lists hundreds of local organizations - planting public orchards and food forests, picking otherwise-wasted fruits and vegetables from city trees and farmers' fields, and sharing with neighbors and the needy.

https://fallingfruit.org/about

[fruitcage]

[trydrinkingwater]

Falling Fruit

A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and sha

just added two locations to this today so i wanted to remind everyone about fallingfruit. it's a collaborative, community driven map of edible forage with pinpoints all around the world directing you to wild edibles growing in your area.

some places have more pins, some have less. if there's not many in your area and you know somewhere that wild forage grows, add it! you don't need an account and can remain completely anonymous while enabling others in your area to collect fresh food that may otherwise not be noticed or enjoyed by anyone, and you may find some spots where you live that you didn't know about before :)

[isilienelenihin]

So remember that post I reblogged earlier? The one about www.fallingfruit.org, the organisation that is creating a map of foraging sources with the help of volunteers and public information? Okay good, you do. I mentioned it to my husband because I was looking around where we plan on moving in the summer. He asked me if there was anything around us, and to my surprise and delight there was a serviceberry bush listed only a short drive away!

I was sitting there wondering if I might be able to get some berries before we move when this man asks if I want to go down there today and grab some cuttings. The thought hadn't even occurred to me.

You bet your ass I did. They're sitting next to my blueberry cuttings in our bedroom. Use the website to look around where you live or work. You may be surprised at what you find.