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Local food outside your door

http://features.us.reuters.com/wellbeing/news/EFD76DB2-9932-11DC-9261-C8185C74.html

Great article from REUTERS! About us and "The Big Backyard", a crop-sharing program in the Temescal, Oakland.

h4. "Finders Keepers: The Urban Found Food Movement":http://www.edibleportland.com/2007/10/finders_keepers.html

From Edible Portland magazine, about us and the Portland Fruit Tree Project

h4. "Willamette Week's Best of PDX 2007":http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3337/9271

Named "Best Free Free-Range Samples"

h4. "Real Open Sourcery":http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3336/9250/

Nice article by Claire Evans in the Willamette Week that highlights the project's philosophy and not just its novelty.

h4. "Urban Edibles video from KGW News!!":http://youtube.com/watch?v=MaltxTMgn-g

Somehow NW Cable News found out about the project and filmed us in action on May 10th, 2007. Not bad for the news!

h4. "Web site guides Portlanders to urban edibles":http://www.kgw.com/environment/stories/kgw_051007_new_edible_portland.56ed8b1f.html

Writen version of the news story that KGW filmed.

h4. "Raspberry Lessons & Portland Urban Edibles":http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/07/18/raspberry-lessons-portland-urban-edibles/

on the "Brownie Points blog":http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/07/18/raspberry-lessons-portland-urban-edibles/

h4. "New Portland site produces guide to fruits, herbs grown in your neighborhood":http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/05/_got_a_hankering_for.html

Nice article from "OregonLive.com":http://oregonlive.com that even links directly to the ethics page.

h4. "Urban Edibles - Find food in your neighborhood":http://portland.metblogs.com/archives/2007/05/urban_edibles_f.phtml

From "Metroblogging Portland":[http://portland.metblogs.com/, article by "Betsy Richter":http://portland.metblogs.com/profile.phtml?author=313

h4. "Hunt and Gather":http://blog.nau.com/2007/03/30/hunt-and-gather/

Article from the blog of Nau, outdoor apparel company - http://nau.com

h4. "Don't Go Hungry During RailsConf 2007":http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/02/07/dont-go-hungry-during-railsconf-2007

from Robby Russel, founder of "PLANET ARGON":http://www.planetargon.com/

h4. "G-Rad Forums":http://www.g-rad.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=22604

yeah! nice discussion started by George

h4. "Zoobomb Forums":http://www.zoobomb.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2108

"URBAN INTER-AWESOME!" started by Reverend Phil

h4. "Summer of Rails":http://summerofrails.org/blog/

Voted one of the SoR guy's favorites! He pleads for other cities to be added soon.

Related Articles

News relevant to the project, but not necessarily about it.

The Modern Harvest

Nice article that mentions several urban foraging projects in the US, including Urban Edibles and Fallen Fruit in LA.

That Urban Forest

Wow, San Francisco is going all out! The main site is here.

Making sure backyard fruit isn't wasted

L.A. Times article about how technology is aiding in neighbor-to-neighbor foraging activities. "Fallen yard fruit is collected for food banks; surplus garden produce is shared in cooperatives. It's the Twitter age of neighbor helping neighbor."

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