Bernardo Lopez Garden Design prides itself on creating well-crafted, beautiful and sustainable gardens. Bernardo's mantra: listen, look and interpret. Committed to creating outdoor spaces that bridge the home to the outdoors while meeting clients needs, desires, and budget, Bernardo strives to include vegetables and fruit trees as part of his design.
Foodzie is an online marketplace where you can discover and buy food directly from small food producers and growers. Their mission is to help change the way people eat. One small piece of that mission is to help the small food producers across the country find customers and grow their business. They believe that instead of a small number of large food companies there should be a large number of small food companies.
From wild mushrooms to acorn flour, there is a wealth of edible forage just outside our doors that few people know about, and still fewer ever consume. Forage SF's goal is to push people out of the supermarket, to get them trying new things harvested sustainably and fairly by their neighbors.
Forage Oakland is a project that addresses how we eat everyday, and how everyone can benefit from viewing their neighborhood as an edible map, considering what is cultivated in any given neighborhood and why. The gleaning of unharvested fruits; the meeting of new neighbors; the gathering and redistribution of fruits that would otherwise be wasted - can be powerful and can work to create a new paradigm around how we presently think about food in our collective consciousness. Forage Oakland works to address the need for neighborhoods to be more self-sustaining in meeting their food needs.
The Greenhearts Family Farm CSA brings together local, pasture based and organic food and artisan product providers for Bay Area families demanding the finest California has to offer. Each week families receive a selection of the finest seasonal fruits, veggies, eggs, chickens and flowers fresh and at the height of ripeness, color and flavor delivered to their home or office. Join the Family!
Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. It's the world's largest show-and-tell and is full of step-by-step recipes, as well as food and garden-related projects!
Dr. Nat Bletter has 10 years of experience in botany, documenting exotic fruits, gathering food in the wild, and herbal medicine. He has a Ph.D. in Ethnobotany from the City University of New York and New York Botanical Garden, where he researched medicinal plants of Peru, Mali, taste-modifying plants like Miracle Fruit, and stimulant plants such as cacao. This rich background led him to start a traditional-ingredient, high-antioxidant, artisanal chocolate company Pure Origin. He now works atUniversity of Hawai’i Manoa. He also teaches foraging and chocolate classes and co-leads culinary, ethnobotanical and musical tours of Bali. Dr. Bletter is a prodigious contributor to Neighborhood Fruit's public tree maps.
The Philadelphia Orchard Project plants orchards in the city of Philadelphia that provide healthy food, green spaces and community food security. The Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP) works with community-based groups and volunteers to plan and plant orchards filled with useful and edible plants. POP provides the plants, trees, and training. Community organizations own, maintain, and harvest the orchards, expanding community-based food production. Orchards are planted in formerly vacant lots, community gardens, schoolyards, and other spaces, almost exclusively in low-wealth neighborhoods where people lack access to fresh fruit.
Rentalic enables person-to-person renting between friends, family, and communities. It is an online marketplace where owners can post items or services to rent out and borrowers can rent items or services they need.
San Francisco Beekeepers Association (SFBA) is an association of individuals who share a common interest in the honey bee, apis mellifera, and the science and art of responsible urban beekeeping. Through monthly meetings, classes and other events, SFBA seeks to educate communities about honey bees and their value to the natural world and urban environments. SFBA provides referral lists of beekeeping members on its website who offer various honey bee related services, including urban fruit tree pollination.
San Francisco Department of the Environment protects the health of the Bay Area environment and communities every day, as well as developing best practices and model programs for cities elsewhere to follow. Their website has a plethora of great information about how to recycle, reuse, and reduce waste in our communities (they even have an iPhone app to make it easier!), as well as offering information about water, toxics reduction, energy, environmental justice and more!
Neighborhood Fruit is a proud contributor to the Urban Forest Map. The Project digitally pinpoints the location of each tree, maintains tree data in a consistent database, and offers web access to the information – key for maintenance and planting efforts. Bringing together information from city agencies and local non-profit groups and, most importantly, with online input from community members like you, the project will map every tree in cities and calculate how many pounds of air pollution they are absorbing, how many gallons of storm water they are filtering, and how many tons of carbon dioxide they are removing from the air.
