I was thinking the same thing. Permaculture projects would work better but with everything ppl take advantage.

I volunteered at a community garden. Had lots of food. Homeless ppl would just walk up, grab like 10 okra, take a bite out of 2 and throw the rest on the ground.

people dont. value anything that is free. this is why you should never give away free puppies.

Idiotic? Wow.... How about hiring people who can take care of the trees... Gives a Job to a Gardener and helps people get much needed real vitamin C. and the left over fruit can be taken to "The Place" you suggest to feed the people. It literally is feeding the people. i hope you have a better day and cheer up!

i I am a farmer. have you ever grown a piece of fruit? any idea what is involved to do this? what would you do about the vandelism that comes with anything 'free'? who would clean up the mess fruit trees make in a concrete growing fashion. this is not thought through with any knowledge more than hopey changy ideas.

if people were serious about this, they could bulldoze down blocks of vermin drug infested buildings all over a city, repair the chemical laden soils, and purify the smog laden air the trees need. then start a school to have bodies to do the amazing amount of work and learn to be able to do this on its own. it would take gazillions of dollars and bodies to even think about starting. There are 'places" set up already to feed the help
ess and homeless. use the money to improve what is already started.

are you against supplementing?

what difference? if the homeless could help themselves they would. they cannot support fruittrees, and the expenditures would be absurd. feed them with the wasted money of this project