Olive tree harvest We began eating the fruits of street trees (and of trees accessible from the public right of way) in Berkeley, California. We also participated in Forage Oakland , exchanging our herbs and tomatoes for other herbs and fruits. There were several public fruit options in Berkeley: plums, tree strawberries, olives, pluots, ginkgos, apples, crabapples, hawthorns, and loquats. So enamored of our Berkeley experience, we're promoting edible urban forests via our Eat Street Trees! campaign. Nut trees, too. We've distilled nocino using sidewalk-grown walnuts. Strawberries, strawberry tree ( Arbutus unedo ) It has been challenging to find edible street trees in our New York neighborhood though this spring we've eaten handfuls of serviceberries (but none from the High Line ). Ellen Spector Platt and Ellen Zachos of Garden Bytes from the Big Apple have had success foraging in the city . Urban forager Ava Chin has written about sweet violet , dandelion