Ways to share a communities fruit harvest:
Portland Fruit Tree Project is an all-volunteer, grassroots organization based in Portland, Oregon. Their mission is to increase equal access to fresh, healthy food and foster stronger communities by empowering neighbors to share in the bounty and care of urban fruit and nut trees. They strive to increase community knowledge-sharing and self-sufficiency through education in food preservation and fruit tree cultivation. The organization maintains a fruit tree registry and holds harvesting parties, group harvests, tree care workshops, and fruit preservation workshops.
Neighborhood Fruit is a Google map mashup that shows citizens of San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles (as well as a growing list of other cities) where to find fruit growing on public land. In other words, fruit you can forage for yourself at no cost!
Fruitful Alpharetta is an idea that I started turning in my head last year but just didn't get going. Now that my schedule has cleared up a bit I would like to try again to get this project off the ground. Fruitful Alpharetta would model itself after the Portland Fruit Tree Project with a few possible adaptations to meet the needs of the Alpharetta community. What I need to get this going are a few proactive people willing to sit down and brainstorm with me...then determine the required first steps.
