About the project Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on an interactive map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, to fight the scourge of stained sidewalks, and to reconnect with the botanical origins of food.

Our edible map is not the first of its kind, but it aspires to be the world's most comprehensive. While our users contribute locations of their own, we comb the internet for pre-existing knowledge, seeking to unite the efforts of foragers, foresters, and freegans everywhere. The imported datasets range from small neighborhood foraging maps to vast professionally-compiled tree inventories. This so far amounts to thousands of different types of edibles (most, but not all, plant species) distributed over millions of locations. Beyond the cultivated and commonplace to the exotic flavors of foreign plants and long-forgotten native plants, foraging in your neighborhood is a journey through time and across cultures.

Join us in celebrating hyper-local food! The map is open for anyone to edit, the database can be downloaded with just one click, and the code is open-source. You are likewise encouraged to share the bounty with your fellow humans. Our sharing page lists hundreds of local organizations - planting public orchards and food forests, picking otherwise-wasted fruits and vegetables from city trees and farmers' fields, and sharing with neighbors and the needy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45012342

i've been preparing mine the same few ways for a while and i'd like to get some more ideas and make a change. how do you prepare yours?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34795810

Public libraries and botanical gardens (and more) may keep seed exchange catalogs. They may also host events for seed exchanges among groups. Search online for seed libraries and seed exchanges near you to locate opportunities for finding free and interesting seeds to include in your garden this year.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/33788424

Solarpunk is often dismissed as a purely aesthetic movement - pretty pictures of skyscrapers covered in vines. But true Solarpunk is political. It is about decentralization.

If we want to become independent of the “Big Three” (US tech, Chinese manufacturing, Russian energy), we need to localize our survival.

The arguments in this short podcast sounded pretty convincing to me. That said, I don't have the proper background in chemistry to back what is said, so I thought of sharing it, hoping to get some input. So please, let me know what you think about it!

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/32171077

While hundreds of millions around the world face food insecurity, a tiny South American nation has managed to become the only country that can entirely feed itself. How did Guyana manage it?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/31717133

Navdanya International has released the report Seeds of Resistance, which documents the global spread of both old and new GMOs and the dismantling of biosafety regulations across continents. The publication comes as the European Union moves toward deregulating next‑generation GMOs, paving the way for gene‑edited organisms to enter fields and dinner plates without labeling, traceability, or proper risk assessment.

California nearly triggered a seismic shift in American kitchens this fall.

A bill phasing out the sale of nonstick pans made with polytetrafluoroethylene—a type of PFAS “forever chemical”—cleared the state legislature in September with overwhelming support. Given the well-documented health risks associated with production of PTFE, commonly known as Teflon, advocates fully expected Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign SB 682 into law.

But then the celebrity chefs showed up.

Days before Newsom was set to rule on the bill, a wave of similarly worded letters to the California State Legislature appeared. Celebrity chefs Rachael Ray, David Chang, Thomas Keller, and Marcus Samuelsson all insisted that Teflon was safe when used correctly. Their letters warned that the bill was alarmist, unnecessary, and unfair to home cooks and professional chefs alike. Their message was polished, unified, and amplified across national media.

In the end, Newsom echoed their concerns. “I am deeply concerned about the impact this bill would have on the availability of affordable options in cooking products,” he wrote in his veto message.

But the chefs weren’t acting alone. They were working on behalf of The Cookware Sustainability Alliance, a newly created lobbying group representing some of the world’s largest pan manufacturers, which argued the bill would drive up consumer prices and needlessly restrict a “safe” product.

The reason the chefs’ letters aligned so cleanly with the CSA’s talking points is, in retrospect, unsurprising: They all have financial relationships with companies that produce and sell PTFE-coated pans—the same companies that fund the CSA, a joint investigation by Atmos and Heated found.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/31112565

Miriam talks with Gabe and Kato from the Astoria Food Pantry, a radical food pantry that has food, books, and RPGs, about how the project works, how giving away shit for free is cool, how awesome mutual aid distros are, and how we could sure use more of them, especially ones with RPGs.

Find them at https://www.astoriafoodpantry.com/ or on IG @astoriafoodpantry.

My irl schedule is getting busier so I'm looking to form a team with one or two more mods.

This community is chill. Would be a good opportunity for first timers!

🍴 Must have a slrpnk.net account at least a few months old with a post and/or comment history
🍴 Will enforce instance rules in a cool-headed manner
🍴 Understand that the global food system is a mess
🍴 Bonus if outside the EST (UTC -5) time zone

I'm open to new rules, recurring posts and other ways to bring more life to the community, so be sure to leave a comment if interested. Thanks!

Each week, we’ll share a cooking video on YouTube featuring a complete holiday menu that blends classic, creative, and cultural dishes with a plant-based twist. From gourmet spreads to Caribbean flavors, comforting classics, and clever leftover makeovers — there’s something for every table.

When you register for the free Vegan Holiday Menu Series, you'll automatically receive a complimentary download of our special recipe collection, "The Vegan Holiday Table." This essential PDF guide features 17 beloved recipes plus helpful tips and insights for navigating the holiday season, making your plant-based celebration simple and delicious.

Given the government shutdown, soaring grocery prices, and federal cuts to food-assistance programs, the need for the grassroots initiative is greater than ever.

Key takeaways

• EAT Lancet 2.0 has a wider focus on socio-economic factors, which is a great improvement. Despite talk about human rights and justice most of the analysis and suggested measures are grounded in the market framework, however.

• The agriculture part is recommending many good practices and a radical reduction in the use of pesticides. But is not very convincing when it comes to the impacts on yields and cost of production. It can’t resolve inherent contradictions between the modernist emphasis on efficiency and the need to reduce human demands on the biosphere.

• They project an increase of crop lands and a decrease of grasslands, as a result of a drastic reduction in ruminant livestock. To decrease the contributions to the agri-food system of grazing ruminants is simply a lose-lose.

• The Planetary Health diet is based on a view of the food system as consumer driven, which is mistaken. There is also mismatch between the diet and the agriculture realities.

• Instead of using a diet as the entry point of the discussions of the food system, we should start in how we can manage the various agro-ecosystems in an organic/regenerative way. Diet will follow, as it always did.

• The implementation of the diet and the other proposed measures will not result in a halving of green house gas emissions of the food system, which has been claimed by EAT. Most of the reduction of the emissions will come from the phasing out of fossil fuels in the whole system. That this will happen is an assumption in the report and not linked to the policies and recommendations of EAT Lancet 2.0. Unfortunately, the huge impact this will have on the food system is also neglected in the report, which undermines the credibility of all scenarios.

• The scenarios are also built on a growth of the GDP with 127 percent in 30 years. This is both implausible and not desirable.

See also: The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

Food sovereignty is foundational to climate justice and must be built from the ground up.

Social and environmental movements from around the world gather at the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum this week, as the need for food sovereignty could not be more urgent.