Forage Oakland

The Manifesto

Upcoming

GAFFTA: Summer of Smart: Public Health + Food + and Nutrition hackathon. This free event will bring together coders, designers, urbanists, journalists, etc. for a dynamic weekend of social app creation. While this is not a Forage Oakland-sponsored event, it may interest those who read this blog. Click here for more details.


Now

Audio Library of Fruit Memories.
Come share your most cherished backyard fruit-related stories for what will eventually become the Forage Oakland Audio Library.

Organize an ad hoc harvesting party. Email forageoakland@gmail.com for more details.

Stay tuned for information on a summer marmalade and jam exchanges; harvest parties; and an overhaul of the Forage Oakland interface.

Past Events

10 July 2011
Oakland Museum/ Forage Oakland Bike Tour. This event is part of the larger Oakland Standard, which are experiments in work and play (organized by the Oakland Museum). Click here for more information.

17 February 2011
Presentation in Intercultural Gardens at CCA.

August 27-29, 2010
Eat Real
Partake in a neighborhood harvest and post-harvest apple sauce making party (with said harvested apples). Come learn a bit about the history of fruit tree cultivation in Temescal. More details to come.

11 Dec- 01 Jan 2010: Please visit 18 Reasons for the Persimmons for Later, a hoshi gaki (hanging, dried hachiya persimmons) installation. Click here for more information about the show.

20 December 2009: Forage Oakland Marmalade/Jam Exchange between 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm at 411 51st Street, Oakland. Come and exchange marmalade and jams made from surplus backyard Bay Area fruit.

forageoakland@gmail.com

Please send an email (rather than calling) if you have any queries regarding this project. Thanks for writing!

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Forage Oakland membership is closed for the moment, but a 'spring overhaul' of this project will ultimately create a system that will allow more people to participate in the exchange and redistribution of fruit.

Interested in a collaboration with Forage Oakland? Are you doing a similar project in another city or have an idea for a partnership? Send me an email to see if it seems viable. Also, if you're interested in starting a backyard foraging project in your own neighborhood, fill out this form. Click here.

At Vacant Homes, Foraging for Fruit (Kim Severson for the New York Times)

This section is under construction, but eventually it will have a list of links to projects that I frequently reference and that I find useful in my work. It will also connect you with like-minded foraging groups the world over, as well as connect you to other urban projects that I admire and find inspiring.


Urban Foraging/ Community Fruit Barter Groups

Abundance Manchester, UK
Alameda Fruit Exchange, Alameda, California
Fallen Fruit, Los Angeles, California
Forage Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Forage Marin, Marin, California
Grow Sheffield, UK
KW Urban Harvest, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
The Lemon Lady, Clayton, California
Marin Open Garden Project, Marin, California
Portland Fruit Tree Project, Portland, Oregon
PUEBLO, Oakland, California
Neighborhood Fruit, San Francisco metro area
Not Far from the Tree, Toronto, Canada
North Berkeley Harvest, Berkeley, California
SF Glean; San Francisco, California
Urban Edibles, Amsterdam
Urban Forage, Berkeley, California
Village Harvest, San Jose, California
West Ealing Abundance; UK