Urban Fruit Gleaning

Cooking Up a Story: Food News

Portland Fruit Tree Project provides a valuable service that helps communities benefit directly from local resources. Fresh fruit that grows on neighborhood trees is collected by volunteers, and dropped off at local Food Banks for distribution to those in need. The great thing about this program is that in large part, the fruit would not be harvested or eaten by anyone—if not for fruit gleaning. Everyone involved benefits, including the trees, as harvesting is beneficial to their health!

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One Comment

  1. Posted December 20, 2007 at 4:30 pm | Permalink

    Awesome. That looks really fun and helpful. I wish we had such an abundance of fruit trees in our neighborhood.

    -specialk

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  1. By Resources for Gleaners « "Yarden of Eatin" Blog on October 4, 2009 at 12:14 pm

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  2. [...] post and video on Cooking Up A Story tells of an organization that harvests produce to help out the local community. Portland Fruit Tree [...]

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