Here's a venture going on in several cities, to harvest fruit from neighborhood trees so it doesn't go to waste. Going the next step with this idea would be to sell fruit trees to homeowners at a discount, maintain their trees and harvest the fruit and give the homeowner back a small percentage of the fruit and keep the rest. The selling point to such a homeowner is that the organization would have the resources to figure out optimal fertilizer, optimal pruning, peak harvest time and all the details to maximize the harvest that an individual homeowner would never have time for, so it's a win-win. The organization would develop a route like a paper route through a neighborhood to visit and maintain all of their trees like a giant urban orchard.
The group that does this currently (not selling or maintaining the trees) in Vancouver is the https://m.facebook.com/VancouverFruitTreeProject/
and the one in Ottawa is http://ottawa.hiddenharvest.ca/
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