Foraging for food on roadside verges and in public spaces is not new, but it's now become a lot more organised.
Juliette Anich has been foraging for years, and when she set about creating a virtual food map of her region, she discovered that she was not alone.
She's now part of a collective online project called the 'Foraging Commons' which maps food which is grown on or over public land and it spans many states of Australia and even parts of New Zealand.
Juliette's interest has now become the basis for a PhD in edible geography at RMIT.
"After I mapped the local area and put it out on a google map for free, I found all these other people who were mapping around Australia and New Zealand as well", Juliette said.
There were maps for north of New Zealand's South Island, the Lower North Shore of Sydney, inner North Melbourne and parts of Launceston and South Hobart in Tasmania.
"Each map is really different, some of them had photographs, some of them had descriptions, some of them included comments", she said.
Juliette became the project officer of a collaborate project called 'The Foraging Commons', a website which combines all the various maps of food on public land in one site.
Though the process Juliette discovered that the concept of foraging in suburbs can be contentious.
"It wasn't something I anticipated when the project first started.
Not everyone likes it but it is an interesting experiment in how we actually live together and mediate what's mine, what's yours and what's ours".
One of the outcomes of the project was the discovery that apart from fruit trees, there really wasn't a lot growing on public land.
So the group has begun the 'Reclaim the Curb' project promoting the growing of food in public spaces, community gardens and in nature strips.
Each year they offer prizes such as workshops, plants, seeds, mentoring or beehives for the best projects.