Please add any locations of public food bearing perennial plants to the falling fruit map. This is fruit and nut trees, as well as berry bushes and such. You can zoom in to see individual plants or zoom out to see the map of the entire world with these plants marked on the map. Take a look at what is marked already for the Quad Cities: fallingfruit.org/?z=11&y=41.51466&x=-90.48873&m=true&t=roadmap&l=true Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on a 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 map of urban edibles is not the first of its kind, but we aspire to be the worlds most comprehensive. While our users explore, edit, and add locations of their own, we comb the internet for any pre-existing knowledge, hoping to unite the mapping 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 733 different types of edibles (most, but not all, are plant species) distributed over 610,737 locations. Beyond the cultivated and commonplace to the exotic flavors of foreign plants and the long-forgotten culinary uses of native plants, foraging in your neighborhood is a journey through time and across cultures. Join us in celebrating the local and edible! The map is open for anyone to edit, the entire database can be downloaded with just one click, and our code is open-source. If you pick more than you can use or are overwhelmed by the bumper crop from your private trees, we encourage you to donate the surplus produce to charity or your neighbors with the help of local food redistribution programs.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:02:58 +0000
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