A film about 5 homeless people in Atlanta, showing Friday at 5pm at the Carter Center as part of DocuFest and Sunday at 11am at the Hyatt Regency as part of the Peachtree Village International Film Festival. It comes very highly recommended, and I’ll be there tomorrow at the Carter Center.

Traditionally, June is a bit of a quiet month…mulberries and serviceberries are pretty much gone, and lots of other things are still fattening up. While things have definitely been quiet around here, we’ve discovered a lot of exciting things on the horizon.

The first is that, by all accounts, this is going to be an absolute bumper crop of a year for fruit. Every fruit tree I can think of is well laden. We’re going to be working hard. We’ve added over 30 new points to the food map since the end of last year and the ability to filter out specific fruits on the map, so hopefully you can find something tasty for yourself.

The second is that for as long as we’ve been picking fruit in this city, we keep discovering new things, like plums, nectarines, blueberries, and cherries. We’ve got a small pick scheduled for this Sunday, 4th of July to try to get some of these in-betweeners. Nothing too time-consuming, and we’ve all probably got plans later on in the day anyways.

Blueberries in Candler Park

We had our first outing this past Sunday, and it was all we could ask for — weather was perfect, company was nice, and we got a whole gang of tasty berries.

Items of note:

• Serviceberries! These are a new addition this year, and me, Lisandro and Aubrey were pretty wary of them since we didn’t know what they looked like and had never eaten them. We eventually took a leap of faith and ate them. They’re great! Everyone I know minus one person loves them. To put it another way, serviceberries are also known as sugar plums. Now you know what those kids were dreaming about the night before Christmas. And, now that I know what they look like, I’m spotting them everywhere, so check out the food map for some places, and I can point you to some more if you’re having trouble finding them.
• People! We had an enthusiastic bunch of volunteers along with us. Trang, Pam, Hillary, Kirsten, Dougall and Maria — thanks a ton! I really hope we have yall out with us again sometime soon. We also encountered two lovely ladies while we were out picking serviceberries who were extremely complimentary of Concrete Jungle and they said our mothers had raised us right. Who could argue with that?
• Pie! You probably some idea of what happened here.
• Photos! You can see what you missed out on at our photo stream.
• Data! Now that we’re off to a new year our donation counter has reset and if you click on it you’ll get some brand new graphs that we’re looking forward to filling up over the next couple of months.

See you on Sunday!

We’re in high season for the next few weeks, and there’s one really important thing you should know about how to find mulberries:

Hey folks…we’re rousing from hibernation, getting back in to the swing of things, and looking forward to picking some fruit!

We’ll be making a short presentation at Pecha Kucha Night, this Sunday March 21 at 7:30pm at Octane Coffee near Tech.

Come hoot and holler for us!

Well folks, the daylight has been saved, and it’s hunkering season once again. We’ve got some walnuts drying under the porch, some pecans here and there, and a few leftover prickly pears scurrying to get in before the door closes on summertime and all its bounty.

We’ll be tending to various odds and ends throughout the next few months, but for the most part, it’ll be a nice hibernation. We hope to return with vigor, and pick up a few gadgets from our wishlist. So be warm, enjoy the clear air, stay fed, and we’ll see y’all next spring!

-Craig