Rhode Island law doesn't say anything about whether it's legal to pick fruit from someone else's tree if you can do so without trespassing, making this a gray area.

The Providence Journal's archives indicate that six people were fined for "taking fruit" from a garden between 1882 and 1887. (The fines ranged from $1 to $3.) There are also numerous accounts of ...

And unlike toys, berries especially go bad very quickly. If you see a ripe one, you might be the only person who ever sees it! You aren’t really taking berries away from the owners of the bush if you ...

Fallen Fruit created the Monument to Sharing public orchard at Los Angeles State Historic Park in 2017, with 32 Valencia orange trees — the first type of citrus grown in the region.