Coming by June 1st.

We’ll launch the premiere issue of FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE!

You can order a beautiful perfect bound copy or a downloadable PDF by June 1st!
Our new public project which becomes a magazine! For our first issue, !ESTAS COMO MANGO! we worked with OPC and the people of Puerto Vallarta.

Fallen Fruit Magazine
Fallen Fruit Magazine is a public participatory project is created for different cities in the world with the support of an art or cultural institution. The subject matter and themes honor the history and narratives for the places and cultures from which the work is created. For example, the historic mango plantations of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico or the native apple trees of Manhattan in New York City. The majority of texts and images are collected by public engagement through group collage making, interviews and story telling and local historians and cultural leaders are also invited to contribute to the publication. Collectively, the magazine captures a “story of place-making” in a contemporary ‘zine.

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. To be a part of the Urban Fruit Trails in your city, please email us at info @ fallenfruit.org . Find our hand drawn maps of various cities here. Our online interactive map goes live this July, 2015 thanks to the help of sites similar to Site Beginner that offer advice on getting a new webpage up and running. We have planted Urban Fruit Trails in Los Angeles, Riverside, Baldwin Hills, Puerto Vallarta, and upcoming cities include New York, 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!

Urban Fruit Trails! Fallen Fruit’s public artwork extends to Riverside!

Urban Fruit Trails is a network of walking trails, populated with fruit trees and planted, tended, and harvested by the public. Anyone can become a part of this project collaborate with us: Urban Fruit Trails 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

Urban Fruit Trails portraits commissioned by the Riverside Art Museum for Artmake 2015

On Saturday, February 21 from 12-3pm at Lincoln Park in Eastside, Fallen Fruit with Riverside Art Make, Riverside Art Museum, Eastside residents and volunteers to install Riverside’s first “Urban Fruit Trail!- Fallen Fruit’s public artwork in Riverside! We planted 18 trees in Lincoln Park t and extended the trail throughout the neighborhood.
More info HERE

Please understand, that these are bare root fruit trees, and must be planted the same day of the event (If possible , we will help you). 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.

Riverside Art Make is supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.

Estas Como Mango! by Fallen Fruit

help fund our new project here: KICKSTARTER

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

¡Estas Como Mango! means that “You are like a Mango” or “you are sweet, perfect and ripe!” It’s a term of affection and adoration in Mexico. Of course, we believe everyone is perfect and everyone is ripe. This exhibition of contemporary art and public practice will open at Oficina de Proyectos Culturales (OPC) in Puerto Vallarta in May 2015 and will be the first exhibition by the Fallen Fruit collective in Mexico. Cultural exchange and contemporary art making is important to the vibrancy of a 21st-century transnational community. We recognize that California was once Mexico and that Latin-American heritage is part of West-coast culture. The artists want to create meaning from the nuances of these histories. This art installation will re-contextualize local narratives using fruit and images of Puerto Vallarta as a subject, object and symbol.

The artworks will respond to people and place and use local fruit as a connector. Fruit is a part of the history of a place. In the case of Puerto Vallarta, we found that the mango is paramount to local culture. Mangos were imported to this tropical beach town and part of its foundation in terms of urban planning, infrastructure, and culture. This area was a place to harvest salt for the mines, then a plantation, a village, and now a town—where the culture of the plantation was replaced by a culture of tourism. From this context, we will create new artworks that celebrate the history of place and fruit as a connector of cultural meaning.

ABOUT OPC:

Oficina de Proyectos Culturales is an independent non-profit arts organization dedicated to fostering dialogue through exhibitions, round table discussions, public art and arts education programs. OPC works with artists, architects, curators, academics, and writers who explore ideas that shape our city and to develop cultural programming that is firmly rooted in Puerto Vallarta, yet international in scope.

Park To Playa- Public Fruit Tree Adoption

Fallen Fruit planted the ‘Stocker Fruit Park’ at the trailhead for the Park to Play trail.
The park opened to the public in 2016.

The existing segments of the Park to Playa Trail include Stocker Corridor, Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, Culver City Park, and Ballona Creek Bike Path.more info here: https://trails.lacounty.gov/Trail/237/park-to-playa-trail

Fallen Fruit’s PUBLIC FRUIT TREE ADOPTION
We gave away 120 beautiful fruit trees that new owners agreed to plant on next to sidewalks to share with their neighbors and planted 5 Public Fruit Trees in Rueben Ingold Park for EVERYONE!
with Office of Mark Ridley-Thomas, Supervisor Second District and MRCA and LA County Parks.

To support the project, donate HERE.

Riverside Art Museum (RAM) is pleased to announce an exciting new Riverside Art Make public participatory project! RAM is bringing Los Angeles–based, internationally acclaimed art collaborative Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) back to Riverside! Fallen Fruit produces community-based projects that use fruit as a medium to explore social engagement. Last fall, Fallen Fruit went to the Eastside for the Riverside Art Make, where they presented their “Lemonade Stand.” In exchange for drawing a self-portrait onto a lemon, each participant received a glass of organic lemonade. See the community’s portraits by Fallen Fruit HERE:

On Saturday, February 21 from 12-3pm at Lincoln Park in Eastside, Fallen Fruit will work with RAM and residents to install Riverside’s first “Urban Fruit Trail.” Come help us plant and grow an Urban Fruit Trail!, our public artwork in Riverside! We will plant 12 trees in Lincoln Park and extend the trail throughout the neighborhood with your participation and help. If you (or your neighbor) has a sunny space along a sidewalk and where you can water regularly, contact us at [email protected] and help us create an Urban Fruit Trail. It is free to participate!

Becoming part of the Urban Fruit Trail is easy:

1. You have space along sidewalks and fences on private property – a home, local business or apartment building.
2. The space is sunny and is already being watered or can be watered regularly.
3. You agree to share the fruit tree with neighbors and passersby and be part of the Urban Fruit Trail.

Each recipient signs an agreement promising to care for the tree and share the fruit with others. If where you live has room for more than one fruit tree and you can care for them, let us know! If you don’t have space for a tree — come help us plant fruit trees in the Eastside neighborhood.

Please understand, that these are bare root fruit trees, and must be planted the same day of the event (If possible , we will help you). 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.

Riverside Art Make is supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.

For more information on Urban Fruit Trails by Fallen Fruit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLj3NPivxIo

ARTBOUND

PUBLIC FRUIT TREE ADOPTION
A Fallen Fruit Project sponsored by
MRCA and the Office of Supervisor
Mark Ridley-Thomas.

Join us!!  On Saturday, February 7th from 12pm to 2pm at Rueben Ingold Park at 4500 Mt. Vernon Drive for a Public Fruit Tree Adoption and blessing of the Park-To-Playa Trailheads.  There is no charge and anyone can adopt a fruit tree and plant it as a symbol of abundance and generosity for the community.  There are over 100 fruit trees available and are available on a first-come basis.

This project is about celebrating public space & community resources.  These fruit trees are for sharing; by planting your adopted fruit tree in a public location or on the edge of private property and sidewalks or alleyways, organic fresh fruit will become available to the community for generations to come. Share your fruit and change the world!  become part of the “Urban Fruit Trails and Endless Orchard”

Post pictures of your new tree’s growth, blossoms, fruit, harvest and friends.  Send them to us: info @ fallenfruit.org . Use #FallenFruit   #PublicFruitTreeAdoption  #urbanfruittrails and #ParkToPlaya to be a part of the project online.

Type of fruit trees for this event include:

Apple, Apricot, Aprium, Fig, Nectarine, Pomegranate,

Peach, Plum, Pluot and Persimmon.

RSVP by email to: info at fallenfruit.org

For more information on Park To Playa visit here

ABOUT PARK TO PLAYA

The Park to Playa Trail will be a 13 mile trail network connecting the Baldwin Hills Parklands to the Pacific Ocean. Efforts are underway to create a seamless pedestrian and bike connection starting with the Stocker Corridor on the east, connecting to Ruben Ingold Park, Norman O. Houston Park, Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, and the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, among other destinations. The Stocker Corridor segment of the project will include an Urban Fruit Trailhead that will offer seasonal public fruit. Construction is expected to begin on this segment of the trail in February. When complete, the Park to Playa Trail will be Los Angeles County’s first urban regional trail.

FAllen Fruit and Riverside Art Museum (RAM) is pleased to announce an exciting new Riverside Art Make public participatory project! RAM is bringing Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) back to Riverside! Last fall, Fallen Fruit went to the Eastside for the Riverside Art Make, where they presented their “Lemonade Stand.” In exchange for drawing a self-portrait onto a lemon, each participant received a glass of organic lemonade. See the community’s portraits by Fallen Fruit here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152522546253843.1073741850.12466118842&type=3

This February, Fallen Fruit will work with RAM to produce “Urban Fruit Trails.” Fallen Fruit distributes free bare-root fruit trees in a variety of urban settings. They ask that the fruit trees are planted in public space or on the periphery of private property next to a sidewalk or a road, in order to create new kinds of communal life based on generosity and sharing. Each recipient signs an adoption form promising to care for the tree — initiating a relationship with it. Eventually the trees will become part of a network of Urban Fruit Trails on the Endless Orchard.

For more information on Urban Fruit Trails by Fallen Fruit:

For this project commisioned by Grey Area, we selected our Fallen Fruit, Public Fruit Wallpaper, Hawaii, created in 2012 using borrowed and found fruit from Honolulu’s Chinatown neighborhood. Part of their Public Fruit Wallpaper project, in which they photograph found fruit from selected cities, the image seeks to capture both the realities and aspirations of that place. Hawaii is the crossroads of East and West, with the fruit of all the world represented there. It’s a symbol of global diversity combined with the dream of tropical exuberance and bounty…Like the Smart Car which you’d probably want insurance for but which kind? Comprehensive vs Third Party is an important thing to consider. I’ve heard that youi.com.au has some useful articles on it. But I digress, the Smart Car emphasizes diversity, and also, our dreams of fruitful plenty. The wallpaper depicts a vibrant and artful sense of play in line with Smart Car’s exciting launch and dynamic brand.

Little did we know, but the Smart Car is more popular than first thought. The chances are is that you see at least one on every journey, right? When it comes to buying a new car, you need to find the balance between fun and practicality so that you can use it for all of your needs. Some people may have released some equity to help afford this type of car so it is important that you find one that you know you’ll love. And you may just find it in a Smart Car.

Of course, it is also no secret that we should all be doing more to invest in renewable forms of energy, and buying an electric car can dramatically reduce your carbon footprint. Looking for even more ways to reduce your carbon footprint? Why not switch energy providers to a more environmentally conscious utility company? In texas electricity can come from solar panels and wind farms, so do not be afraid to do some research of your own if you are considering doing your bit for the environment.

So, what do you think of the car we have designed? Let us know your thoughts and if you have any more tips about living a more environmentally conscious life feel free to leave them below too.

Janet Owen Driggs reports on “The Del Aire Fruit Park,” the first public fruit park in the state.

Based on the article, Fallen Fruit and the ‘Thin End of the Wedge’ by Janet Owen Driggs
Read it here: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/cou…

Del Aire Park is public arts commission by The Los Angeles County Arts Commission