WHAT DO YOU DO with all those excess lemons from the tree in your backyard? What happens to all that excess silverbeet you planted in your community garden allotment? All too often, it goes to waste. So why not swap it?
At food swaps, people exchange the excess food they grow.
Following is an incomplete list of websites to go to to locate food swaps around the country. If you know of more, please leave the information in the comments at the bottom of the page.
NSW
North Wollongong: http://thegardennorthgong.blogspot.com/2010/04/waste-not-swap-this-saturday-9-12.html
South Australia
Adelaide: http://www.adelaide.foe.org.au/?page_id=408
Victoria
Melbourne: http://www.sustainablemelbourne.com/models/ceres-urban-orchard/
September 6, 2010 at 7:50 am
Sustainable Communities SA is holing a food swap called Essential Edibles at the Joslin reserve on the first Sunday of every month. The first one was held yesterday: http://sustainablecommunitiessa.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/essential-edibles-come-share-and-swap/, http://sustainablecommunitiessa.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/sharing-swapping-and-paradigms/
October 7, 2010 at 2:24 am
there is a new food swap organization that has been set up in north-west Tasmanian called Produce to the People run by Penelope Dodd. here is the link for a press release that give a bit more info.
http://www.theadvocate.com.au/news/local/news/general/produce-to-the-people-head-to-utas-campus/1833517.aspx
you can also drop off at the Commonwealth Bank in Burnie now too.
February 24, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Can you please tell me thank you, is there a Food Swap Running in Campbelltown,NSW? I keep 12 hens and i would like to swap fresh hen eggs.
Plzzz,,get back to me my..