Sweeten Your Spring

Lots of interesting food-sharing websites are listed in Sunset Magazine this month. FallenFruit has an active group mapping "public access" fruit trees in many L.A. neighborhoods (none in Long Beach yet). They're also sponsoring an interesting open participation project called EatLACMA where you can send in videos of how you eat. After you set up an account, you can check Neighborhood Fruit to find public fruit trees or people in your area willing to share fruit from their trees or (if your trees are laden with fruit) you can sign on to share some of your bounty.

The other sites are more localized, like Forage Oakland, Santa Barbara Food Not Lawns, and ForageSF (which sponsors wild food walks . . . cool).