Eat local - Urban Harvest vegie swap meets in Melbourne

Vegie Swap Meets

Kildonan Fresh Food Swap
Do you grow your own fruit or vegetables?
Do you have too much?
Come to the Kildonan Fresh Food Swap and swap your produce for something you don’t grow!

Items for swap can be:
• Fresh fruit , vegetables & herbs
• Seeds, seedlings, cuttings & flowers
• Jams, chutneys, sauces & eggs (all dated)
Feel free to bring along recipes and gardening tips to share with others too!

Date: Saturday, 7th of November at the Kildonan Community Day. Then, the first Saturday of every month.
Time: 10am-12pm.
Where: Kildonan UnitingCare, corner of Bell St & Sydney Rd, beside the Church, Coburg.

Inner North Urban Harvest - Coburg
3rd Sat of every month from 10am -12.
McCleery Reserve on the corner of Shaftsbury and Munro St's.
Contact 0430 586 500 or ekeogh21@hotmail.com and aliciahooper@hotmail.com

Westside Urban Harvest Swap Meet
1st Saturday of every month
Grasslands Coop - 211 Nicholson St, Footscray.
10-11.30am
Bring your excess fruit vegie egg honey seedling sourdough bread or whatever produce!

Yarra Swap
First Saturday - Yarra Urban Harvest homegrown edibles swap, 10am to 1pm. Smith Reserve,
Alexandra Pde, Fitzroy (parkland next to Fitzroy Pool). Bring friends & goodies from your garden to share: greens, citrus, eggs, herbs, fruit and veg, honey, wormjuice, bokashi liquid, coffee grounds, preserves, jam, homemade sourdough bread or mini-muffins, companion plants, a thermos of herb tea…..

or just come on down for some community bonding and a great chat!

BYO bags/basket to take home swapped goodies.

Bulleen Vegie Swap
Come and be a part of the best free community event around. All you have to do is bring some home grown produce - be it fruit, vegies, eggs, compost or home baked goodies to swap for someone else's home grown goodness.

Vegie swaps will now be held on the 3rd Saturday of each month. If you would like a reminder a couple of days before each swap day, send your email address to meredith@baag.com.au

BAAG, 6 Manningham Road West, Bulleen.

Food Swap at the convent
As part of our monthly food swap at the convent, we are hoping to establish a POD. A POD is a gardening group that take a Productive, Organic, Diverse and Sustainable approach to the way they garden. For more information, have a look here www.sgaonline.org.au/pods.html

If you are a regular to the Farmer's Market and would like to be part of the group, please let us know. We will be conducting a food swap on the 4th Saturday of every month. It would be great if we could have a dedicated group of individuals heading along to not only share food but also knowledge and skills. We envisage the POD program as a way for gardening groups all over Australia to connect through SGA.

Also, PODs are starting to pop up all over the place, so if you're interested in being involved closer to home, let us know and we can point you in the right direction.

Regards,
Belinda
Abbotsford convent pod convenor

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Those interested in this article might also be interested in the Social Harvest program. A web site and mobile app is available to help connect backyard farmers with excess produce to help enable ad hoc swaps. http://socialharvest.shoutem.com/

Hi urban harvesters of the west!
Our new venue is Pilgrim St park, Seddon (42 A5) from 10-11.30am. See you there