urban foraging :: Urban Food Forestry

Below is an ongoing list of initiatives around the world dedicated to planting, harvesting, and/or mapping urban food trees. This list will continue to grow over time and will eventually be represented as an interactive map — please contact me or leave a comment if you would like to add an initiative to the list.

Name of Initiative or Organization	Location	Founded	Planting	Mapping	Harvesting
City Fruit	Seattle, WA	2008	x	x	x
Fallen Fruit	Los Angeles, CA	2004	x	x	x
Life Cycles Fruit Tree Project	Victoria, BC	2000	x	x	x
Madison Fruits and Nut	Madison, WI	2010	x	x
City of Calgary Community Orchards	Calgary, Canada	2009	x	x
Ben Nobleman Community Orchard	Toronto, Canada	2009	x	x
Philadelphia Orchard Project	Philadelphia, PA	2007	x	x
San Francisco Urban Orchard Project	San Francisco, CA	2012	x		x
Urban Abundance Fruit Tree Program	Vancouver, BC	2009	x		x
Beacon Food Forest	Seattle, WA	2011	x
Union Street Urban Orchard	London, UK	2010	x
Bloomington Community Orchard	Bloomington, IN	2010	x
Communities Take Root (nation-wide)	30+ cities, USA	2010	x
Rapid City Urban Orchard	Rapid City, SD	2010	x
Chicago Rarities	Chicago, IL	2009	x
Husthwaite Community Orchard	Husthwaite, UK	2009	x
The London Orchard Project	London, UK	2009	x
Fruit Tree Planting Foundation	100+ cities	2002	x
Dr. George Washington Carver Edible Park	Asheville, NC	1998	x
Community Harvest of South West Seattle	Seattle, WA	2007		x	x
Boskoi Urban Edibles	Netherlands	2010		x
Neighborhood Fruit	USA, Canada	2009		x
Hackney Harvest	London, UK	2009		x
Urban Edibles	Portland, OR	2006		x
Pierce County Gleaning Project	Tacoma, WA	2010			x
Food Forward	S. California	2009			x
Neighborhood Harvest	Ashland, OR	2008			x
Not Far From the Tree	Toronto, Canada	2008			x
North Berkeley Harvest	Berkeley, CA	2008			x
Abundance Manchester	Manchester, UK	2008			x
Grow Sheffield	Sheffield, UK	2007			x
Solid Ground Community Fruit Tree Harvest	Seattle, WA	2007			x
Backyard Harvest Community Orchard	WA, ID	2006			x
Portland Fruit Tree Project	Portland, OR	2006			x
Boston Area Gleaners	Boston, MA	2004			x
Village Harvest	S. California	2001			x
Vancouver Fruit Tree Project Society	Vancouver, BC	1999			x
Baltimore Orchard Project	Baltimore, MD	2012	x		x
Meridian Garden Food Forest	Minneapolis, MN	2014
ReTreeUS	Durham, ME	2013

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