Barter for Food - Could You Trade a Cooking Pot for Some Vine-Ripened Tomatoes?

Could a cooking pot be bartered/traded for a bag of potatoes or some cookbooks for fresh from the garden green beans? Could work be traded for a bushel of apples?

Are some Americans Hungry? Is the packaged food arriving in grocery stores in smaller containers? Did the jars of canned applesauce shrink in size, and at the same time, carry a higher price tag? Careful and vigilant shoppers are seeing a lot of changes on the supermarket shelves, and the changes are smaller packages for more money.

What Are Some Options For The Hungry?

Could we barter for food? Some think we can. Could we fill our pantry shelves by trading something we have or even a service (plowing a garden space), for garden produce.

The Food Channel includes barter in the top new trends!

5 Barter Sites!

1. Craigslist is easy! Just a simple log-in, click a few times, list what you want (even include pictures). That's it.
2. Barter Quest
3. U-Exchange
4. Pay Me With Chicken
5. Swap Tree

Check out a seed swap?

Spring is just around the corner and the seed orders are flying out the door. How about checking out a seed swap site - trade and barter seeds and even plants. Have you always wanted your own grape arbor for homemade juice and jelly? Trade some heirloom brandywine tomato seeds. Be creative? What do you need and what do you have (check out state guidelines for mailing seeds and plants)? Maybe you have peppermint plants (for soothing herbal teas), or maybe the catnip grows in abundance in your herb garden (health food stores sell out of this early). Get your garden plans together now with a free seed-swap. Send your garden seeds out and get the seeds you need delivered right to your mailbox. Join different seed-swaps and choose from a greater variety of heirloom seeds. It's possible to find a seed variety that is rare to find in a seed catalogue. Once again, you could be enjoying a vegetable that is growing in your own garden that you thought was gone! What could be easier?

Local Farmer's Market?

How about the local farmer's market that opens in spring, with the first new tomato plants in 4-packs, and continues on through summer's green beans and autumn's halloween pumpkins! Some of these local markets even offer homemade bread.

Garden-time is just around the corner! Be creative and grow your best garden ever and barter/trade some of your extra produce!

Sources:

www.chow.com/stories/11807
http://www.barternewsweekly.com - The Food Channel Includes Barter In The Top Ten Trends
http://www.barternewsweekly.com - Battle of the Internet Barter Sites: Part 2
www.seedswaps.com/