I see it has listed a fruit tree in my yard... Is there a way to revoke that? I've given permission to my neighbors to pick as long as they knock, not to randoms.
Before you end up stealing someone's private property, introduce yourself to the property owner and ask for permission. If the property owner changes, you have to go through the process again. Rights aren't grandfathered in.<p>This seems to be beyond what many people are capable of. This app is going to be shut down.
Someone should do this for tech meetups with free pizza and beer. I practically lived on those my first year in the bay area. If you're smart you can eat for free every night of the week in exchange for listening to a few boring lightning talks and recruiter pitches.
Check out Rob Greenfield if you haven't: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/RobJGreenfield" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/RobJGreenfield</a>.<p>He's living for a year on only food he planted or forages from naturally growing sources. He's in Orlando, Florida.<p>I find him inspirational. I'm now growing tomatoes, herbs, and salad greens in my windowsill and I've foraged several pounds of fruit and herbs from near my home -- and I live in Manhattan!<p>I can't believe how delicious and plentiful they are.
OMG I laid the groundwork for the Falling Fruit mobile app, but I had to step aside and it was all so long ago! It has come along leaps and bounds since then.<p>The browser app has always been way ahead and the programmers behind the whole idea are super competent.<p><a href="https://github.com/falling-fruit/falling-fruit-mobile.git" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/falling-fruit/falling-fruit-mobile.git</a>
There's also <a href="https://mundraub.org/map" rel="nofollow">https://mundraub.org/map</a>, a map that shows free fruits (mainly in Germany).
The "About" section [0] of the site has the bio's of the people involved with the project. From there, there is a link to a free download to a 166 page PDF of David Craft's book on Urban Foraging [1].<p>[0] <a href="https://fallingfruit.org/about?c=forager%2Cfreegan&locale=en" rel="nofollow">https://fallingfruit.org/about?c=forager%2Cfreegan&locale=en</a><p>[1] <a href="https://fallingfruit.org/docs/David%20Craft%20-%20Urban%20Foraging.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://fallingfruit.org/docs/David%20Craft%20-%20Urban%20Fo...</a>
Today I've read an article about how Spanish farmers let fruit rot on the tree, since prices are so low that they can't cover the cost of labour.<p>Someone asked on the comments why they don't just let people go and grab as much fruit as they want, if it's going to waste anyway. The answer might be 'because regulations'. If you got a farm and people pick up fruit for free, does it count as unpaid labour? Could you get sued? People rather not take the risk. Not to mention the implications of allowing random people to freely roam your property, etc.
I think that 'street fruit' is a great resource. There are many fruit trees in neighborhoods that are under harvested, with piles of 'ground fruit.' I've always played by the rule that if I could reach it from the sidewalk, and it was overflowing, I would take some. For sure though, don't harm the fruit-producing plant, or any property surrounding it, because that's not considerate.
There is a documentary I watched called "dive" a few years back which had a guy feeding his entire family with food he could get from the dumpsters of grocery stores. And it was not just unhealthy stuff. Fruits which were almost ripe like bananas are thrown out. The food wastage gives a good opportunity for free meals if we know where to look.
In my city it is full of dumpster diving spots that seems to be imported from trashwiki(?).<p>Three of four fruit trees in a sea of trash compactors, electronic waste disposals and residential trash. I can filter on a specific category but I can't seem to filter "everything but a specific category" to get rid of the freegan stuff.
Apparently not, I live in a metropolitan area of >1m people and there are just countless markers for "Dumpster (non-edible)" spanning the map.
I'm going to be the cynic here and assign a high probability that eventually the insiders running the site will keep the really good spots to themselves, e.g., make it so that information about the really good spots is visible to the user id or IP address that uploaded the information and to the insiders, but not to the general public.<p>In the 1994, the last time I had information about them, the employees of the San Francisco Food Bank felt free to take any of the donations with the result that the clients of the Food Bank got whatever the employees did not want.
Got to say this is an impressively dense map, there's plenty of options within 1 mile of my current location. Seems dangerous to use this info though, who knows what kinds of pesticides are sprayed on those fruit trees for example.
Interesting but (at least in my area) I wouldn't eat anything growing in bushes (like berries). The amount of leashed dogs I see peeing all over them makes me gag just thinking about it.
...well that’s pretty offensive framing. Are time and tool acquisition free too? Because frankly you’re going to have trouble eating possum without both.<p>I’m all for kids eating blackberries off wild bushes, but let’s not pretend this is free to anyone except those that can already afford as much food as they need.