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Check out these amazing groups and sites!

Portland:

City Repair

The City Repair Project is a Portland, OR group that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live.

The Portland Fruit Tree Project

The Portland Fruit Tree Project organizes people in Portland, OR to gather fruit before it falls and make it available to those who need it most. They coordinate harvesting parties and offer workshops in pruning & fruit preservation.

Wild Food Adventures

Professor John Kallas provides expertise in wild edible plants and foraging through workshops, expeditions, teaching events, presentations, outdoor guiding, and outfitting anywhere in North America. Technical advising, curriculum development, and custom research services are also available. Emphasis is on the past, present, and future uses of wild edible plants and other foragables.

Portland Heritage Trees

This is a great resource with pictures and the location of each heritage tree in Portland. One can search by species, location, or year planted.

Elsewhere:

Fallen Fruit

Public Fruit is the concept behind Fallen Fruit, an activist art project that has begun mapping public fruit in Los Angeles, CA. They encourage everyone to harvest, plant and sample public fruit, which is what they call all fruit on or overhanging public spaces such as sidewalks, streets or parking lots.

Amity Works

Amity Works is a group out of Oakland, CA. They maintain a storefront, a series of free publications, a website and a crop-sharing program called the Big Backyard. The Big Backyard is formed around a pushcart that they use to collect surplus fruit from neighborhood yards, and then donate to the storefront or re-distribute in the form of collective preserves and marmalades.

Nonprofit Technology Network

NTEN is the membership organization of nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes. They enable their members to do their jobs better and help their organizations strategically use technology so that they, in turn, make the world a better, just, and equitable place.

Wildman Steve Brill

“New York’s Best-Known Naturalist”.

San Francisco Urban Forest Map

San Francisco is mapping every tree in the city, making the data available online, and calculating the economic benefit of each tree!

Tucson Youth Mapping and Gleaning
Project

School group in Tuscon, AZ with a similar mission. Their site features an interactive map as well.

Resources:

Plants For a Future

A searchable database of 7,000 useful plants with a focus on perenials. “There are over 20,000 species of edible plants in the world yet fewer than 20 species now provide 90% of our food. Large areas of land devoted to single crops increase dependence upon intervention of chemicals and intensive control methods with the added threat of chemical resistant insects and new diseases. The changing world climate greatly affecting cultivation indicates a greater diversity is needed.”

DMOZ Open Directory on Wild Foods

Wild Harvest

How to identify and prepare wild foods such as fiddleheads, ramps, and chanterelles.

Natural Food Hub – Gather and Hunt Food Links

Fruitipedia

An encyclopedia of fruit, searchable by latin or common names. Based in India, it is centered mostly around tropical and sub-tropical fruits, but some temperate zone fruits are represented.