Gleaning Made Easy – Neighborhood Fruit

Fruit! We all Most of us love it, but not all of us have it and it can be so dang expensive.  Some of us have some, but want more variety and well, it can be so dang expensive.  However, have you ever noticed how much of it litters our sidewalks in the summer? The smell of perfectly good fruit fermenting on the sidewalk is almost synonymous in the summertime.

Many people have taken it upon themselves to make sharing of fruit from their trees easier for each other by allowing gleaning.  It’s a great way to get rid of that leftover fruit and also share with friends and neighbors.  But it is not always easy for everyone to know where the people are who don’t mind a little gleaning.  Well, Neighborhood Fruit has set out to solve that problem with a great website and iPhone app.

With the website and app you can search a radius around your zip-code for public and private trees where piking of fruit is allowed.  It’s a great idea and may just help to keep the sidewalks cleaner and your bellies fuller with fruit that would have otherwise rotted on the tree.  The only problem is that right now it does not appear that any trees are registered in the city or the state yet.  So please register your tree if you have something to share!