I encountered something like this when I planted a row of red currents at the front of our property. My mother-in-law said "You can't plant those there, people will take the fruit" whereas my thinking was "If I plant these here, people can take the fruit"
You know you live in a small town when, if you leave your windows rolled down in your car at the supermarket, you come back out to find a bag of zucchini on your front seat.
He still regrets not planting it further away from the street, unreachable to shitty people.
Americans would rather see food thrown away than taken by somebody they feel doesn't 'deserve' it.
Public? Free? Pschht, everyone knows that what's outside the fence is free for the taking!
But there were also tons of fruit trees in nature in the city. Went jogging one time at a jogging trail, saw chanterelles in the forest, came back with my t-shirt full of tasty, tasty mushrooms.
If you've grown up with always being able to pick fruits and berries and mushrooms in nature, maps like this are so weird. Why would you need a map? Nature is full of it?
Oh, you're not allowed? Oh, you can't access it? Oh, there aren't any around, really? How sad.
Finally no fruit ...just pollen everywhere. (Good luck with allergies)
I presume that Americans always take the poo of their beloved pets from the streets. /s
https://fallingfruit.org/?c=forager%2Cfreegan&locale=en
It is a shame they we throw away so much food.
We're dismissive of "security through obscurity", but cost functions and diffusive compartmentalization are structural components of many systems. Yet exploring innovative approaches to mitigate the costs of our barrier reductions don't seem to get much discussion.
And yet, I absolutely hate sites that don't let me go back to wherever I was before going to the site when I hit back, but instead reload prior same page clicks.
I ask because this would be an interesting data to have in Openstreetmap or Wikidata, so you can easily know what rules govern what nature reserve.
In short: You do a overpass turbo query to dump data from OSM and import it into sqlite, build a GIS index, serve it as geojson, display that on a slippymap with leafletjs and write an end point to update the data.
https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/dirtalert/?lat=47.273840&lon=-12...
For non-Germans: it's a (now colloquial) term for stealing in low quantities and out of direct necessity for your own/your family's survival. In that it alleviates the "base motives" part of the crime.
"Stealing" fruit (or flowers) from public flora is legal in a practical sense and under certain circumstances explicitly permitted if it does not involve trespass, you only take small quantities (which is not legally defined) and you do so carefully (which is also not legally defined). There's no requirement for immediately consuming the fruits on the spot (as the colloquial use of the term "Mundraub" suggests).
As with most of the things laypeople think of as being legal, it's more of a case of how much someone cares to enforce the law that makes it illegal. Also note that "public land" may not actually be public despite being publicly accessible. A lot of former nobility retained their land despite losing their titles and it's not always clear that this land is actually privately owned, especially if you're not from the area. Some is even tended by municipal governments as part of contractual agreements for allowing access to the public. Germany did not get rid of its nobility like e.g. France did even if we officially no longer recognize titles.
I really like them and you can't just buy them at a grocery store.
Just be prepared for someone to pick everything to sell or for their restaurant
[1] https://taylor.town/oh-theft
tl;dr Remember that private plants overhanging public property are not necessarily fair game.
If you're asking for my personal moral opinion, I think it's only a minor sin.
To me, it's like walking your dog without a leash. Of course your precious chihuahua doesn't need a leash, but then that somehow gives license for pomeranians, pugs, corgis, collies, terriers, pitbulls, german shephards, mastiffs, etc.
I don't think chihuahuas really need leashes. But sometimes I also don't trust people to decode nuance and to self-police. I want to live in a world where chihahuas are free and safe, and it seems like the best way to achieve that is through adherence to blanket policies. I'm still unsure if that makes it a moral issue though haha I'm not a philosopher
No only the smell is amazing in the summer and it reminds me of home, but it's been so cool to see people come and pluck from it for their cooking. It's been my hope all along.
I love this <3
Fig trees located in fields are considered public by tradition in Crete. I.e. it's fair game to stop by and grab some fruit, even if you cross into private property. This tradition originates from older days, where farmers/shepherds were travelling the island on foot or riding donkeys, often sleeping away from home. Fig trees were established as the unofficial roadside snack bars because of the delicious fruit, but more importantly because they thrive on the rough terrain without need for human care.
The city also has some foraging clubs that are quite active. There are many more things to pick in the city's forests and parks: asparagus, strawberries, raspberries, currants, mushrooms, etc.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=15Z25z2IyTYSzH0...
