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Fruit News
Jun. 10th, 2009 11:17 amThis sounds like a great idea. I grew up with a number of fruit trees in my backyard, and there was always too much fruit to eat, and it just kept coming. At a certain point you'd just have to rake up all the fruit and put it in the garbage, and even then the bears would still come to check out the remaining fruit, and you'd have to stay in the house cursing the goddamn bears. Good times.
Neighbor, Can You Spare a Plum?
All over the country, the underground fruit economy is growing. At new Web sites like neighborhoodfruit.com and veggietrader.com, fruit seekers can find public mulberry patches in Pennsylvania and neighbors willing to trade blackberries in Oklahoma.
In Royal Oak, Mich., a woman investigated how to start a fruit exchange modeled after Fallen Fruit (fallenfruit.org), an arts group that designs maps of accessible fruit growing in Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Neighbor, Can You Spare a Plum?
All over the country, the underground fruit economy is growing. At new Web sites like neighborhoodfruit.com and veggietrader.com, fruit seekers can find public mulberry patches in Pennsylvania and neighbors willing to trade blackberries in Oklahoma.
In Royal Oak, Mich., a woman investigated how to start a fruit exchange modeled after Fallen Fruit (fallenfruit.org), an arts group that designs maps of accessible fruit growing in Los Angeles neighborhoods.
