NOCTURNAL FRUIT FORAGING


We started our nighttime fruit walks in collaboration with Temporary Services,
who did a two week residency project in Echo Park, "Construction Site," with
the Outpost for Contemporary Art . In these events we tour through a specific
neighborhood with a group of inductees to point out the varieties of public fruit
growing there. Most people are amazed at what they find. We like to do these
walks at night because it heightens people's senses; most of us associate fruit
with sunshine in the country, not urban darkness.

We meet a lot of residents when we stop in front of their houses with flashlights,
shopping carts, bags and fruit pickers. They are usually happy to see us and
offer to let us pick more fruit inside their properties. Its rare, at least in LA,
to find people who actually use much or even any of the fruit growing on
their properties. The mission of FallenFruit is to change that.