Food swaps

Swap your food

A food swap can be a recurring public event where members of a community share home grown or homemade foods with each other, or it can be arranged by individuals who wish to swap through their own networks or via social media.

It is a terrific way to get to know members of your local food community while minimising fresh produce waste.

Many community members grow their own fruits and vegetables, so swapping something you have plenty of for something you don’t makes complete sense.

Join the Albury-Wodonga Produce Exchange on Facebook and get swapping.

Another great online website to grow, share and sell is RipeNearMe. Just enter your postcode and away you go.

Food Swaps are sprouting up all over the region.

Birallee Park Neighbourhood House Inc has a daily food exchange on site at 39 Emerald Avenue, West Wodonga, and also operates a program called “Food is Free at Birallee” where fresh produce-fruit and vegetables and herbs, are freely available for the public to take or swap with excess produce of their own.  With large community gardens already in place, Birallee’s new fresh food cart grew out of a greater need to provide to the community, a wide variety of vegetables and produce from its gardens.   

Tallangatta Food Swap-

Tallangatta Food Swap meetings are held in the Tallangatta Triangles Barbecue Area in the centre of town on the first Sunday of every month at the same time and location.
Contact Tamara Barton on ( 02) 60717209 for more information.

The Yackandandah Garden Food Swap is held on the third Saturday of the month in William Street (next to the swimming pool) 9.30am-12.30pm…

http://www.facebook.com/yackandandahCommunityGarden

Quercus Beechworth-

Contact Quercus for dates of each upcoming Food Swap so that you can bring along excess produce, egg cartons, jars, preserves etc etc. Meet like minded people and make new friends.