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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
http://www.growing-gardens.org/portland-gardening-resources/fruit-tree-project.php
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
http://www.wildfoodadventures.com
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
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=eacia
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
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/
"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.
Naropa's Falling Fruit Map
An Open Collaboration on Google Maps. Colorado, mainly Boulder and Denver. Grow!
Resources
Plants For a Future
A searchable database of 7,000 useful plants with a focus on perennials. "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."
Forage.rs wild plants map
A collaborative map of edible and useful wild plants growing around the world. The map is open for anyone to contribute and is linked to the plants for a future database to provide information on the plants found by urban foragers.
DMOZ Open Directory on Wild Foods
http://www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Food/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
http://www.naturalhub.com/gather_hunt_food.htm
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.
Food Genome
Look up recipes by ingredients. Coming soon, will have API? http://www.foodgenome.com/
