Free Food for Everyone - Join the Treasure Hunt!

How do free fruits, herbs and nuts sound to you? I am also crazy about free food especially if it goes to waste otherwise.

It is the middle of autumn here in Germany and apple season is almost over. My boyfriend Johann and I used the only sunny day this week to embark on a little apple picking adventure in our old home town before the last apples disappear from the trees and make way for all those colorful leaves.

Fortunately we knew some great spots where public ground meets rich apple trees and anyone is allowed to pick those precious goods. One place was a playground with six apple trees, only a few streets away from an organic supermarket where apples are sold for around 3-4€ per kilo. But the apples there are just falling down onto the ground, remain unwanted and rot there if nobody collects them.

So we spend some hours climbing apple trees in the sun and collecting all the good ones on the ground waiting to become our fruity breakfast. Well, to be fair, I didn’t climb up there this time but had the job to catch those my boyfriend was throwing down from up there.

All in all, we had the pleasure to store about 10 kilos of fresh apples in our basement, after this little adventure.

But you don’t have to run around blindly through your town and search for the lucky catch - there is a great website called Falling Fruit that maps public fruit trees and bushes all around the world where you can collect your next fresh meal. And if you should manage to accidentally stumble across a fruit treasure yourself, you can put a sign onto the map and let other people know about this place.

I also use the website Mundraub for my treasure hunts, but this site is in German and concentrates mainly on European locations with a focus on Germany.

Maybe it is the effort we put into collecting them, maybe the flavor of the traditional and local varieties or the freshness of the apples - but they definitely taste a lot better than any bought ones. I hope you also get into the experience of munching on your own picked foods soon, even if you don’t have the luxury of a fruit and veggie garden.

Let the fruity hunting games begin!

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Have a wonderful day and a fruity journey ahead!

Yours, Anais

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