In a quiet corner of New York City, wild mint pushes up between the cracks of a rooftop, its scent carried on the wind.

It’s an unlikely place for an edible plant to thrive, but for those who know where to look, the city is full of hidden bounty.

Thanks to a global movement called Falling Fruit, anyone can find and enjoy it.

#UrbanForaging #FallingFruit

I've been having fun the past couple days checking out and adding to https://beta.fallingfruit.org - an amazing resource for foragers the world over. I'm not adding my fave spots because I selfishly would like to keep them sekrit, mwahaha, and hopefully I'll get over that because seriously, there's wild food in abundance all over the city and this scarcity mindset does nobody any good.

#foraging #forager #FallingFruit #Flora #NativePlants #EdiblePlants #Wildcrafting #WildFood

Please check out:
https://fallingfruit.org/

Falling Fruit - Mapping the urban harvest in YOUR area.

(They are, sadly, using Google Maps + Google Maps APIs... though I don't see why data could not be somehow exported and/or manually mapped to OpenStreetMap)

#urban #urbanism #Fruit #FallingFruit #Canning

How much force can a falling fruit force if a falling fruit did fall on you? Creating a test chute to slam fruit into the player (at the bottom of the chute). #GameDev #FallingFruit #Gravity #DeathByFruit

@gittaca Yes, and it seems they cannibalize their entries, too. Nothing much found in #FallingFruit, because Germany is well covered in #Mundraub already 🙄
I asked the maintainer of FallingFruit: if we find good tree datasets from cities (free for foraging usually), they can be imported in bulk. Some effort in mapping is needed, though.

OMG, another one! 🤯 https://xkcd.com/927/

In my town, #FallingFruit has mostly supermarket dumpster & free food boxes. No actual fruit trees.

mapped in #FallingFruit a ton of #citrus #trees today. specials: #feijoa & #moringa 🌱💚💚💚💚 #foraging #UrbanForaging

the absolutely weirdest kind of racism is having all mulberry trees in the area on https://fallingfruit.org written as white mulberry when all of them down to the very last are black mulberry 🌳😳🌳 what is this...

#plants #UrbanForaging #trees #FallingFruit

turns out there was this one woman in my area and she went and added all mulberry trees (but one, which i added) to the fallingfruit.org free map so i went and picked a bunch from the floor... left 99% to the insects, god bless them 🐜🍓🙌🏼

#UrbanForaging #foraging #berries #mulberry #FallingFruit