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Fruit and Nut Tree Map / Green Space Map
FRUIT AND NUT MAP
The idea for a fruit and nut map of the area was suggested at the Transition Town Brixton Great Unleashing on 2nd October 2008. This is a great idea - so lets do something about it straight away. Pass this link on to everyone you know and spread the word so that this map reaches the people who want it.
You can view and edit the South London Fruit & Nut Map map HERE
Every body with a Google account should be able to collaborate on and add to this map using the Edit button, which opens a tool bar that allows you to add pins. You can invite more people to collaborate too. If everybody adds the burgeoning trees they have spotted on their regular routes this autumn then soon we will have a wonderful map of existing produce ready for us to use next year.
All those fruit pickers out there - let us know where the hot spots are and make sure you make a note if permission needs to be asked to pick fruit.Share your knowledge. Be responsible in your foraging. And be generous with the jams and preserves you make with produce from public land!
GREEN SPACES MAP
There is also a new green space map for South London (especially Brixton!) which any one with a Google account can add to to show where potential growing spots could be. If also shows allotments and guerilla gardens. Click HERE to view and edit this map.
To see other Green Maps on the area showing green businesses etc visit the TTBFoodWiki
We are working on ways to integrte all these maps into one resources that can be viewed in layers by everyone, regardless of whether or not they have a Google account. Bare with us while we get up to date with technology, or let us know if you think you can help! If you want to add something to the map but are finding it difficult just email us what you want to add and we'll do it for you... ttbfood@gmail.com
The idea for a fruit and nut map of the area was suggested at the Transition Town Brixton Great Unleashing on 2nd October 2008. This is a great idea - so lets do something about it straight away. Pass this link on to everyone you know and spread the word so that this map reaches the people who want it.
You can view and edit the South London Fruit & Nut Map map HERE
Every body with a Google account should be able to collaborate on and add to this map using the Edit button, which opens a tool bar that allows you to add pins. You can invite more people to collaborate too. If everybody adds the burgeoning trees they have spotted on their regular routes this autumn then soon we will have a wonderful map of existing produce ready for us to use next year.
All those fruit pickers out there - let us know where the hot spots are and make sure you make a note if permission needs to be asked to pick fruit.Share your knowledge. Be responsible in your foraging. And be generous with the jams and preserves you make with produce from public land!
GREEN SPACES MAP
There is also a new green space map for South London (especially Brixton!) which any one with a Google account can add to to show where potential growing spots could be. If also shows allotments and guerilla gardens. Click HERE to view and edit this map.
To see other Green Maps on the area showing green businesses etc visit the TTBFoodWiki
We are working on ways to integrte all these maps into one resources that can be viewed in layers by everyone, regardless of whether or not they have a Google account. Bare with us while we get up to date with technology, or let us know if you think you can help! If you want to add something to the map but are finding it difficult just email us what you want to add and we'll do it for you... ttbfood@gmail.com
Tags: allotments, fruit, green, guerilla, maps, nut, space, trees
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Audsley on -
Lovely idea... BUT while I think it important that edible tree crops are not wasted, not everyone looking at this map and fancying a bit of jam making will respect any existing arrangements for collecting and using the fruit or bother to to find out about such arrangements. This is a big city after all. If I had a small fruit tree overhanging the pavement - I might well have an agreement with neighbours to pick and use the fruit and I wouldn't appreciate "fruit picking teams" arriving from wherever trying to do the same. Could be a bit like a flock of waxwings arriving. Ensuring tree crops are not wasted is important but this needs negotiating from within the local community in a sensitive manner and not publicised on the internet. If Transition Town Brixton are successful in raising awareness about the need to encourage local sustainability then trees crops will not get wasted and indeed more will get planted. So I suggest Transition Town Brixton remove this map and rethink their strategy.
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Permalink Reply by Bonnie on -
Hey Adrian,
We are quite clear about people only adding trees to this map that are in the public domain or dropping their fruit on pavements. I understand you concerns and we are planning to develop a seperate private map for garden trees which has trees on it that belong to people who have negotiated agreements with fruit pickers. This would be for logicistical planning and not for public use. I totally agree with the need to negotiate within the community for this sort of organised picking.
The trees on the public map are all supposed to be in parks or hedges or clearly marked as trees only suitable for windfall foraging. This is to prevent windfall fruit from going to waste because people don't know where to look.
i suppose people will put trees on there which have dubious ownership and will usually suggest that someone goes and asks - i understand this could potentially mean an owner is bombarded with requests to pick their fruit or could have thier fruit nicked. This is certainly not what I want. I will check the map and change the wording if i don't think it's clear enough, or remove any trees which seem to be under private arrangments or are of dubious ownership. it is not our intention to cause private fruit tree owners to be harassed! Let me know if you know of any trees on the map which you feel are shouldn't be there.
So far there are too few people using the map for this to be a serious problem, and it is not fruit picking time in any case. I hope we can turn this into a tool for prompting people to create mutually beneficial arrangements, or simply prevent 'wild' growing food from going to waste. But we must think about how it could be misused, I suppose. I am, I'm afraid, rather prone to thinking the best of people :)
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Permalink Reply by Bonnie on
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I'm thinking about moving our fruit and nut tree map over to http://forage.rs/
Let me know what you think of it....
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