Sunday was the third annual Public Fruit Jam- a jam making get together hosted by Machine Project- an art gallery in Echo Park and Fallen Fruit a local art collective.
About 250 people attended and although there was some instruction on boiling and stirring and canning,”It’s not so much learning as freestyle jam-making chaos,” said gallery founder Mark Allen
Few know about a law in Los Angeles that states any vegetation overhanging on public land is shared property. It can be picked and all fallen fruit (wink wink) can be taken.
Fallen Fruit has maps of neighborhoods in Los Angeles that bear lots of fruit.
So if your planting a lemon tree - which I have always wanted to do- try to plant close to the perimeter or your property so you can share the fruit the falls onto public property.
As for jams and canning, you can learn how to make your own jam from Joe Pasty.
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In Boston (a city much less likely to have fruit trees all over the place), there’s a group called EarthWorks that helps set up and organize a network of urban orchards (http://volunteer-boston.blogspot.com/2008/07/fruit-in-city.html). They use the orchards to help city dwellers feel more of a sense of connection and ownership over common land, and it helps that there’s a “sweet ending” to it all! They harvest the fruit and use it in a variety of ways, including selling it to a local ice cream shop. May local produce live on!
Casey @ OYFPThanks Casey! EarthWorks sounds AWESOME!! If you ever want to blog about it for TakePart we would love to have you as a guest blogger!
You can email me here: wendy@takepart.com
Thanks!!
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Wendy Cohen