How to Get Free Fruit

Tip 1 - Want Free Fresh Fruit? Find It Online! - Earth911.com

FallingFruit.org is an international project that shows where the general public can find fruits, vegetables and nuts that are free for the taking.

Tip 2 - 6 Ways to Get Fruit for Free

Love fruit, but tired of paying for it? Here's how to get all your fruit for free:
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Tip 3 - Falling Fruit

A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and share information about the sources of free food in your neighborhood.
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Tip 4 - Serious Green: How to Get Free Fruit via Urban Fruit Harvesting

Photograph from morning_rumtea on Flickr Farmers have been purposefully leaving edges of their fields unharvested and fruit unpicked for the less fortunate since biblical times. Today, groups around the country are translating that idea and encouraging us to do the same--by picking the fruit from your neighbor's tree. Photograph from Muffet on Flickr Urban fruit-harvesting groups started in places where there are abundant fruit trees, such as California. But groups are now popping up all over the U.S. and the world. All of them have one thing in common: making use of food that would otherwise go unused (i.e., rot on the sidewalk). Some groups gather wild food that's growing in a public space, such as a traffic median;...
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