Veggie Trader - Community

We believe Veggie Trader is all about community.
It's about finding local food. It's about strengthening
local economies. And it's about getting to know
your neighbors.

If you find Veggie Trader useful, we encourage you to tell others about the site. We hope Veggie Trader will help build trading communities all across the country, but we’re just getting started and need your help. Be among the first in your neighborhood to list your excess produce for sale or trade. Or if you're looking to buy local produce, post what you’re looking for in our Wanted section and see which of your neighbors answers your request.

Give it time. We believe eating locally is less expensive,
more sustainable, and a better way to live. We believe
it's the future. Let's build it together.

Contact us for more information or if you have ideas for helping make this site a better community resource. And read below for a couple other ideas for how Veggie Trader can be used in the community.

Cooperative Gardening

Cooperative gardening is focused on the idea that neighbors banding together can be more successful growing food than individuals growing alone…

The idea is pretty straight forward - a group of neighbors agrees at the start of the growing season to a list of produce they want to grow, and then each household raises the types of produce it believes they're best at growing. By concentrating exclusively on just a few crops, each household will (in theory) enjoy greater yields and better quality produce. The resulting harvest can then be swapped and distributed among the whole group, with everybody getting a little bit of everything.

We at Veggie Trader believe this is an interesting idea, and have created a Cooperative Gardening sub-section of the Neighborhood Resources listings for anyone wanting to find neighbors interested in specializing and cooperation. If this is you, try posting a listing in this section. State the particular type of produce you can specialize in (and a secondary crop you can grow, if you want), and note what item or items you are most interested in receiving in return. If any of your neighbors are also interested in cooperative gardening, they can find and contact you there.

Special Community Organizations

If you are a member of a religious organization, business, or other group whose members may be interested in using Veggie Trader as a place to trade with each other, please spread the word. Members of specific groups can easily trade with each other on Veggie Trader by including the name of their organization in their listings. Doing this makes finding each other’s produce easy by simply conducting a simple text search using the organization's name.

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