Foraging for fruit in San Francisco is a joyful activity. Me and my partner would go on fun foraging dates regularly when we lived there. Knowing which trees have ripe fruits when is a handy skill to have if you want a super yummy experience. Today we live in a rural area outside of Seattle and foraging is a lot easier, takes no skills, but is a lot more boring and not nearly as yummy.
Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
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Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#12http://jillhubley.com/project/nyctrees/ NYC has a map of every street tree, including size.
I think London something similar: https://www.treetalk.co.uk/map
I think both of these are aggregated by https://fallingfruit.org/
FallingFruit also has crowd-sourced info on stuff like the best dumpsters for dumpster diving
Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#13Everyone's pointing out other cities that also have this info. Falling Fruit is a cool project that aggregates all this data, along with user-sourced data, to make a really neat map
As an avid forager I really appreciate their inclusion of trees not typically considered foodstuffs. Here in socal, the landscapers love to use a lot of trees that they don't realize are extremely valuable food sources to Aboriginal Australians and I love being able to harvest the landscaping
They also include dumpster diving spots if you're into that
Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#14Toronto as well: http://www.mapto.ca/maps/the-fruit-trees-of-toronto
Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#15I’m pretty familiar with the area- one of the more unique parts of the city is the “red zone”, a recovered area which became uninsurable due to the changes in the assessment of land risks post quake. It’s a weird place as the roads are still there and the trees are still along the edges of the former gardens but all the houses are gone and the sites reverted to grass. Many of the fruit trees on this map are from thos…
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Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#16I recently used Cairns city council's exhaustive tree map to match and identify a beautiful weed tree that had popped up in my front yard (to a tree in a nearby park). Turns out it's actually an edible fruit tree (a damson plum) so we've kept it. Tho it's already quite big and will start taking light from the mango tree soon enough, so decision is akin to an adoption!
By weed tree, I mean planted by a bird.
https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/community-and-environment/tree...
Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#17http://jillhubley.com/project/nyctrees/ NYC has a map of every street tree, including size.
https://cor.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...
Richmond, VA does as well
Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#18Christchurch got royally creamed by some earthquakes a few years ago. As part of rebuilding they were trying to green the city as much as possible, and went as far as recruiting permaculturists to come live there. Someone I knew took them up on it.
I am going to be back in Chch in a few days for the first time in 5 1/2 years, it is going to be fascinating to see how things have progressed.
Was that just before or just after the quakes? My sense of time is garbage since Covid.
Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am going to be back in Chch in a few days for the first time in 5 1/2 years, it is going to be fascinating to see how things have progressed.
Was that just before or just after the quakes? My sense of time is garbage since Covid.
The earthquakes were 2010 and 2011.
Re: Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
#20I’m pretty familiar with the area- one of the more unique parts of the city is the “red zone”, a recovered area which became uninsurable due to the changes in the assessment of land risks post quake. It’s a weird place as the roads are still there and the trees are still along the edges of the former gardens but all the houses are gone and the sites reverted to grass. Many of the fruit trees on this map are from thos…
Thanks for this. It’s really odd seeing the empty sections.
I’m alarmed at the state of the roads - what is going on? I thought ours were bad up in Auckland but those ones I just looked at in Christchurch are are terrible.