Urban Fruit Trails is a network of walking trails, populated with fruit trees and planted, tended, and harvested by the public. All of these fruit trees will become part of a network of Urban Fruit Trails and our upcoming public artwork with Creative Capital: Endless Orchard.
Fallen Fruit has been mapping and planting fruit in cities around the world since 2004. Our new project, Urban Fruit Trails is a network of walking trails, populated with fruit trees and planted, tended, and harvested by the public.
FALLEN FRUIT and HOLA grow LA’s first URBAN FRUIT TRAIL
The MacArthur Park Urban Fruit Trail is the pilot for Endless Orchard, Fallen Fruit’s groundbreaking global-scale public art project, which will provide often-overlooked urban communities with public walking trails lined by fruit trees. The trees will be planted, sustained, nurtured and harvested by the public. “We’re thrilled that our students are creating the roots for such a significant project,” said HOLA Visual Arts Director Nara Hernandez. “Fruit trails can create an abundant neighborhood and celebrate a community of sharing,” explained Austin Young. “It’s about transforming our relationship to the city and each other,” added David Burns.
Urban Fruit Trails invite the people of Los Angeles to experience the City as a fruitful place, to collectively re-imagine the function of public participation and urban space, and to explore the meaning of community through creating and sharing new and abundant resources. The fruit trees planted along the Urban Fruit Trail will reflect the natural ripening of fruit during a season: plums and peaches in the summer, pomegranate and persimmon in the fall, and citrus – lime, lemon, orange, and kumquat – over the winter and spring. At the heart of LA’s Urban Fruit Trails a “Monument to Sharing” will be installed at the Los Angeles State Historic Park alongside an orchard of citrus trees.
To be a part of the Urban Fruit Trails in your city, please email us at info@fallenfruit.org. Find our hand drawn and interactive maps of various cities here. More maps will be rolling out all summer, and we will announce new maps via Facebook and Twitter. Our site and custom mapping functionality is all designed and developed by Los Angeles based design team, Code Rodeo.
We have planted Urban Fruit Trails in Los Angeles, Riverside,Baldwin Hills, Puerto Vallarta, and upcoming cities include New York, Omaha, Culver City, and Portland.
Fallen Fruit invite you to experience your City as a fruitful place, to collectively re-imagine the function of public participation and urban space, and to explore the meaning of community through creating and sharing new and abundant resources. Fruit Trees! Share your fruit! Change the world!
