I wonder if Iâm alone in this: I have memories of my first blackberry seasons as a kid in Seattleâwalking on tiptoe to reach the biggest, thumb-sized berries and coming away scraped and torn, sometimes unable to tell which skin stains came from the berries, and which were my own blood.
This kind of urban foraging (to me) was and still is a regular part of living here. But having a network of other fruit sources to pick from never occurred to meâuntil now. Okay, I havenât tried it yet, but fallingfruit.org presents me with another city, a city composed of user-submitted pindrops of harvestable vegetation. Some are plants and trees that I wouldnât normally look to for food, but theyâre listed because people use their sap, or use their flowers for teas. Thereâs also an abundance of apples, plums, and cherriesâbut I donât know how often the map is updated. Has anyone tried this in Seattle?