Thought on a gardening community

I find that community is a great help to us.

We belong to a children's clothing exchange, in which we gather twice a year to hand off the clothes out children have outgrown and collect clothes that out children can use for the coming season. It's saved us a fortune of clothes for Jack over the last 4.5 years -- we have had to buy very. very little clothing and so we could afford to spend money on higher quality -- and we were happy to do so, knowing that a dozen more children will use the clothes before they've lived out their natural lives.

We also belong to a children's book exchange, in which a tub (or two) of children's books comes to out house a couple times a year. We have discovered some wonderful books and have had a worthy place to dispose of really cool books that we don't need anymore. I like knowing that, again, a dozen children may enjoy the books I put in that tub.

I was pondering the excess of vegetables we had this year from our modest garden and wondering whether there are poeple out there who have the same expereince and who migh like to trade -- some of my tomatoes for some of their eggplant, or whatever. Sort of an organic gardeners vegetable exchange... ???

It sounds like it could be useful, but I'm not sure yet how it would work. It would be, by definition, more work than the book and clothes exchanges. Vegetables can't be held indefinitely. Then again, I know that Arborseeds sponsors a seed exchange and several herb and and other plant type swaps...

Dunno.

This might could work...