About Ashland Fruit

Ashland Fruit is a curated interactive map of the fruit trees — and other edible and useful plants — growing in and around Ashland, Oregon. From backyard apple, pear, and fig trees to berry brambles and nut trees, wild greens along the Bear Creek Greenway, herbs in Lithia Park, and the occasional foraged find in the Siskiyou foothills — this atlas documents what's actually growing in our valley, with fruit front and center.

Why This Exists

Ashland sits in a remarkable growing zone. The Rogue Valley's mild, semi-arid climate — warm dry summers and mild winters without the late frosts that trouble much of Oregon — supports an extraordinary diversity of edible plants. Jackson County has been orchard country for over a century: Comice pears, Bosc pears, wine grapes, and stone fruits thrive here. Many of those trees have jumped fences and naturalized along streets, creeks, and trail corridors. This project catalogues that abundance and makes it searchable, filterable, and explorable on a beautiful map.

What's Included

The dataset covers tree fruits (apples, pears, figs, stone fruits), nut trees (walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds), berries (elderberry, blackberry, grape), wild greens and potherbs, culinary and medicinal herbs (fennel gone wild along roadsides, bay laurel in sheltered spots), aquatic plants in Bear Creek and its tributaries, edible flowers, and mushroom locations in surrounding forest land — organized into a practical taxonomy that makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for.

How It Works

Pay once with PayPal and you get full access to the interactive map — precise locations, smart filtering by plant type and taxonomy, current-location support for nearby discovery, printable map views and lists, and a clean, responsive experience on any device. There's no account to create: after you pay, you get a permanent access link, and if you ever lose it you can look it up again with the email or phone number you used. Plants are mapped throughout Ashland proper — the Railroad District, downtown, the SOU campus area, Siskiyou Boulevard, and into surrounding neighborhoods — as well as along public corridors like the Bear Creek Greenway and Lithia Park trails.

Who Built This

Ashland Fruit is a product of Kitchen Creek Media, a small studio building practical, well-crafted digital products. Built with care in Southern Oregon.