We wanted to meet neighbors and celebrate summer in the Lower 9th Ward.

Artists Fallen Fruit were in New Orleans in May preparing for our public project this fall in collaboration with Pelican Bomb, A Studio in the Woods, Newcomb Art Museum, and the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development. Stay tuned for more information about their initiative working with local residents to plant publicly accessible fruit trees and record the city’s rich histories

Fallen Fruit in New Orleans!

Fallen Fruit has  partnered with Pelican Bomb,  A Studio in the Woods, Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, and Newcomb Art Museum!

We got the NEA PROJECT GRANT FOR 2017 to plant two Public Fruit Parks in New Orlean. Come help us plant in January 2018. 

We will present our exhibition celebrating the collection of Tulane University and the Newcomb Art Museum at the Newcomb Art Museum in April 2018.   

Stay tuned for more information about our initiative working with local residents to plant publicly accessible fruit trees and record the city’s rich histories.

Snow Ball Portraits by Fallen Fruit – Fathers Day, 2017 at Burnell’s Lower 9th Ward Market

Fallen Fruit Magazine – The LOVE issue
A 3 hour collaboration with anyone who wants to participate. Come make a Magazine with us! Inspired by the Summer of Love with Sites Unseen!

FALLEN FRUIT, David Burns and Austin Young, invite you to a 3 hour collaboration with anyone who wants to participate. Come make a Magazine with us inspired by the Summer of Love! “We are inspired by LOVE, Utopia, and idealism. People are thinking about what could make the world a better place, and feeling empowered.” – Fallen Fruit will also have a kissing booth and take portraits of people kissing at the site to include in the zine.

July 29th 3-6pm rsvp here: Send Mail

The event will take place on the block of Natoma St between New Montgomery and the back entrance to SFMOMA. It’s free and open to the public of all ages –– we can’t wait to see you there!
The event will launch artist Leah Rosenberg’s new seating and lighting installation in Natoma Street in downtown SF, featuring a participatory #CrochetJam with Ramekon Oarwisters.

Fallen Fruit Magazine brings together public participation, local histories and story-telling. Using strategies of collage this temporary team of culture advocates use fruit as a symbol, object and/or subject to create original editorial content to produce in a one-day a site-specific limited edition contemporary culture magazine. Each edition is unique and is editorially focused to topics and subject matter that is historically meaningful to the neighborhood and/or region.

We’ll create cut-out collage, hand-made graphics, illustrations for short written text, original artwork, current event commentary all through a lens of fruit, love and contemporary culture. The final document becomes an electronic PDF available for download.

In addition to providing the materials for their public participatory project, Fallen Fruit Magazine, which included cutouts of various fruit and fashion magazines, the artists ask participants while they work to think about the theme of “Utopia” and “Love”

Puerto Vallarta edition

Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young)
Bananas in 3 Colors
Letterpress on Crane’s Ecru 134#
Edition of 30, 6 APs, 2 PPs
19.625 x 15.625″
2017
$900 (price increases in three tiers of 10 as prints are sold)

Free Worldwide Shipping

*All proceeds from the print will benefit Fallen Fruit, the Endless Orchard, and planting fruit trees in public space for everyone to share.

Purchase on our store here: FALLEN FRUIT STORE
or Email Fallen Fruit if you’d like to purchase the print with a tax deductible donation.

Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) has created a unique print in collaboration with Bert Green Fine Art in Chicago, and Aardvark Letterpress in Los Angeles. Fallen Fruit work with fruit as a medium to involve the public, create communities and initiate narrative by engaging through workshops and individual works of art. This print is made using fluorescent ink, and changes radically when viewed under a black light.

Join Fallen Fruit at Stoneview Nature Center for a Public Fruit Jam!
An interactive collaborative exploration of fruit, community, and neighborhood goodness.
Sunday August 6th, 2017
12pm-3pm, Public Fruit Jam!
5950 Stoneview Dr. Culver City *free to the public Rsvp: info@ fallenfruit . org

Join us and your friends and neighbors to make jam together. We’ll have plenty of fruit– or bring your home-grown or street-picked fruit, and come jam with us! Wash your fruit prior to arrival. Bring bring a friend or neighbor too! Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind of jam to make: if I have lemons and you have figs, we’d make lemon fig jam (with lavender).

The Public Fruit Jam harkens back to old-time community harvest festivals. The kinds of jam we make will improvise on the fruit that are available. The artists of Fallen Fruit will bring public fruit picked from the streets of Los Angeles. We are looking for radical and experimental jams as well, like strawberry grapefruit or lemon pepper-and-lavender jelly. You’ll learn about the basics of jam and jelly making, pectin and bindings, as well as the communal power of shared fruit and the magic of public fruit.

This event celebrates the newly opened Stoneview Nature Center and the surrounding neighbors. If you live in the neighborhood help us make our art for the community building:

Stoneview Family Photos– Neighbor’s of Stoneview Nature Center: The artists need your help to complete the artwork for the park. They are looking for family photographs from the neighborhood from the 1950’s to present. Photos will go into the community building or exist in an online archive of the Blair Hills neighborhood.

Public Chandeliers– Chandeliers are being created from spoons, and forks and butter knives, kitchen utensils, etc from family homes in the area. Bring stray utensils to be a part of the project!

Stoneview Nature Center:
“The 5-acre Stoneview Nature Center two miles west of Stocker — and itself a stop on the Park-To-Playa Trail — sees Fallen Fruit’s integral design elements in a more conceptual but still absolutely edible landscape integrated into the new construction’s progressive municipal design/build award. Co-proposed with Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects, AHBE Landscape Design, and graphics by Omnivore, the site is a sustainable, multi-use vision for a community center featuring outdoor kitchen and gathering areas, art installations based on the neighborhood’s history, and at its heart, Fallen Fruit’s organic rainbow of living colors, rich symbolism, and narrative in the form of free harvests of pomegranates, lemons, oranges, avocados, grapes, berries and figs. “ – Shana Nys Dambrot, Huffington Post.

Fruit tree care 101
Tree care. It’s important. Knowing which professional you should hire for Roanoke tree services. Being able to look out for signs of disease. Learning how to feed your trees properly. These are all important and we discuss them all in today’s article.

People often move into houses or areas with fully grown trees already in their garden. Trees can take up to 40 years to reach a decent size so if you have a big tree on your property, it’s more than likely it’s 100+ years old! However, just because they’ve been around for a long time doesn’t mean they don’t need caring for. It’s vital to keep caring for the trees, checking for diseases and getting someone like Mr Tree Service to trim them to keep them healthy. Without this level of attention, the could end up dying or damaging your property.

Trees, especially big ones, can easily be damaged in a storm, they can get diseased, and they can have dead branches on them. Sometimes if you have a number of trees in a small area, you need to get tree service removal san diego to remove a few of the diseased or dying trees to help improve the health of the group. This way, more nutrients are available for them in the soil.

With all this being said, not many people know how to care for trees, especially fruit trees. This is why we’re trying to improve people’s knowledge so they know what to do if their trees begin to look unhealthy.

Want to learn the basics of how to keep your fruit trees happy, healthy and producing delicious fruit? Join us for a weekend intensive on fruit tree care at Stoneview Nature Center from 11:00 – 2:00(?) on Saturday and Sunday June 17 & 18.

On Saturday you will learn:
– How to read your tree
– How to feed your tree (when to apply fertilizers and what fertilizers to apply)
– How to optimize fruit production

On Sunday you will learn:
– The specifics of citrus tree care
– The specifics of avocado tree care

Come to one or both workshops!

Snacks and water provided.

Sweet & Sour!! June 4th!
Fallen Fruit present our Fermentation Station at Stoneview Nature Center!

Fallen Fruit Sodas — With your help, we will be creating custom flavored fruit syrup to make fermented sodas. These are all natural, low sugar and totally delicious. Everyone can participate, big kids, little kids, moms, dads, grandparents, neighbors, friends and more. Flavors will include raspberry, meyerlemon with basil, watermelon and more combinations we get to create together!
Everyone will get at least one bottle of soda to take home.

Fruit Pickles!! — We all love pickles — Summertime crunchy, yummy cucumber pickles. Cukes are a fruit!! But we can pickle more than that. Okra (is a a fruit!). Apples, Zucchini, Watermelon rinds, and more. Use your imagination and build your own pickle jar. We will make the brine and you will have delicious pickles to share with your family in friends within 1-2 days! They will keep in the fridge all summer and these pickles made perfectly, with love.

Stoneview Family Photos- Neighbor’s of Stoneview Nature Center: The artists need your help to complete the artwork for the park. They are looking for family photographs from the neighborhood from the 1950’s to present. [email protected] Photos will go into the community building or exist in an online archive of the Blair Hills neighborhood.

Public Chandeliers- Chandeliers are being created from spoons, and forks and butter knives, kitchen utensils, etc from family homes in the area. Bring stray utensils to be a part of the project!

*free to the public

In addition to providing the materials for their public participatory project, Fallen Fruit Magazine, which included cutouts of various fruit and fashion magazines, the artists asked participants while they worked to think about the theme of “Utopia” and current events, such as the Women’s March on the day after the 2017 presidential inauguration.

Download Magazine here: FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE

“We are inspired by images about protest,” Young and Burns note. “Perhaps the Women’s March that had just happened galvanized everyone. People are really thinking about what could make the world a better place, and feeling empowered.”

Read the whole interview HERE.

Download Magazine here: FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE

Food by Design

The Museum of Design in Atlanta, Georgia is currently showing our work. The exhibition Food by Design: Sustaining the Future includes designers of living architecture, (Mitchell Joachim, David Benjamin) revolutionary food concepts (Ugly Food, Fallen Fruit, Victory Gardens of Tomorrow, Concrete Jungle) future foods (3D Printed foods, Cricket Bitters, Soylent, Memphis Meats), and food waste systems (Compost Wheels, Bionicraft Biovessel, and me).

Exhibition runs January 25 – May 21, 2017.

http://www.museumofdesign.org

“a delicious communal feast for 5000 people made entirely out of food that would otherwise have been wasted. We have organized over 40 events worldwide and are very excited to take it to LA.” –Feeding 5000

WHEN + WHERE

Thursday, May 4, 2017 – 11am – 4pm

Pershing Square, Downtown LA

Fallen Fruit will be onsite with backyard oranges to share and our Endless Orchard web app.
We believe our cities could be like communal gardens, so come be a part of the Endless Orchard!
Join us at Pershing Square with Code Rodeo!