Re: Anyone Foraging for Food?
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 10:28 pm
I do some guerilla gardening last fall, leaving pears in a brushy area in a park. Hopefully they will grow. Someone else had already planted onions in the same spot.
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Stanford University used to publish a map of all the fruit trees for starving students- the place was huge and had all kinds of trees with free fruit. We used to tease (I was a 21 year old child) the foreign students who came in ecstatically telling us about their harvest at the music building. "You mean the fruit that crazy Chemistry dropout was caught injecting with a syringe?" Sarcasm doesn't translate well. People got really upset.C40 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:30 pmhuh... the city of Phoenix has updated the site with thousands of trees in public areas.
I've been walking/riding around town often wondering if it's reasonable to just take some of the fruit off trees from people's yards or from ~landscaping trees on commercial property. I could at least try these out.
This is fabulous. Brilliant. It reminds me of Russia during 1990s when everyone started planting the green belts with potatoes. A government worker showed me this because he said you never knew when the pachecks would arrive. After a few months, you had a backup food supply. Just dig. Old ladies would guard the patches in exchange for a cut and other exchangeable goods.Gilberto de Piento wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2017 10:28 pmI do some guerilla gardening last fall, leaving pears in a brushy area in a park. Hopefully they will grow. Someone else had already planted onions in the same spot.
I do from time to time. I have two stores around with unlocked easily accessible dumpsters. I usually just check them before I walk in the front door to buy whatever is on the list. I actually stopped looking at one for awhile because the Frito-lay truck kept leaving so many chips.Noal wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:47 pmJust on that Standford students anecdote you told, Sclass. It seems the normal thing these days is to go out at lunch time with your phone and "forage" for Pokemons. Imagine telling a co-worker you were going out looking for free food...
Has anyone dumpster dived?