The New York Times: finger on the pulse
Jun 10th, 2009 by Laura Reinsborough
Last fall the New York Times reported on fruit tree projects around the States, the kind like Not Far From The Tree that organizes fruit picking and then shares the harvest.
Today they’re putting their finger on the pulse once again with a beautiful article on public fruit foraging. It mentions the artsy urban pioneers of the public fruit movement, Fallen Fruit, and focuses on the work of Asiya Wadud at Forage Oakland. Asiya and I have been emailing and blog-stalking one another since our projects both got off the ground at about the same time last year.
I regularly read about fruit-bartering of Forage Oakland on Asiya’s wonderful blog, but think it’s something that I’ll need to see in person to really get a sense of just how it works. And to taste my first loquat!
I’ve recently written a post about how to set up a neighborhood produce exchange. hyperlocavore.com is a free social network built to support this sort of thing along with yard sharing arrangements which a allow people to share space and resources to grow more food closer to home. The site is free!
Please come by:hyperlocavore.com
Here’s the post on the produce exchange
http://hyperlocavore.ning.com/page/how-do-i-start-a-produce