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Back in the Park! - first Saturdays in November
and December, then weekly from New Year to the end of summer.
10-10.30am @ NEW VENUE - McInerney Reserve, Kilkenny
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Contact us for personalised support to help you start
your own swap
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We'd love you to email us! but to avoid
spam, we don't publish our email address online, so please
reassemble our email address from the following:
vegeswap + [type the 'at'
symbol] + adam.com.au
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"I just felt like every individual had a valuable
contribution. Literally everyone is committed and knowledgeable
in the group! I know that probably shouldn't surprise me, but I've
just never really been a part of a community before... I'd recommend
the hosting of an Open Garden Circle for others like us who want
to garden and are new to the area, because I met at least one swapper
who lives nearby so it's a chance to get to know like-minded close
neighbours!" - Lisa
"I've been looking for something like this
for a long time... people with the same interests. Other things
I try to join, people just seem to pass the time fighting with each
other." - Stephen
"It's about resilient neighbourhoods... And I've
met so many fabulous people." - Annie
"You always learn something new, share ideas."
- June
"It's so nice to just sit for a while and
chat, not to have to do anything." - Kim
"You never go home angry." - Len
Email your comments to vegeswap
+ [type the 'at' symbol] + adam.com.au
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*NEW*
On our Not-Blog: 'This is community'
Oct 2011
On this page:
where & when - why vege
swap? - how does it work? - not-Blog
- recipes - media - other
swaps
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| The West Croydon Community Fruit
and Vege swap is entering its fifth summer season. Each week local
people gather in a park to swap surplus produce from their gardens,
seeds, plants, cuttings, ideas and local knowledge. |
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This video of West
Croydon Community Fruit & Vege Swap was generously provided by
esm on Vimeo. |
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you've got
more peaches, plums or figs than
you can possibly use, but you'd love a little of what
you see over your neighbour's
fence!
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Come along & swap
* fruit & vegetables
* herbs
* plants, seeds, cuttings & seedlings
* preserves, jams, etc
* or just come along for a chat and a cuppa |
* run by local residents
* totally not for profit
* no money changes hands
* no cost, no strings attached
* everyone welcome |
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| where & when |
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First Saturdays in November & December,
then WEEKLY from New year to the end of Summer:
10 am Saturdays,
McInerney Reserve, Kilkenny
situated on Sackville St, at the end of Day Terrace
COOLER MONTHS: we meet as a 'Winter Open
Garden Circle', monthly on the first Saturday at rotating
locations - contact us for details
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| why Vege swap? |
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The local 'Community Fruit & Vege Swap' model
is as much or more about community
as it is about sustainability
- and of course, great for your own garden, budget and diet
too.
- reduce waste
- share the goodness of your garden
- save money
- add variety to your diet
- cut food miles
- encourage sustainable living
- share ideas and knowledge
- get to know your neighbours
- build stronger community networks
Why wouldn't you?
More...
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mouth... |
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talk about why they come! |
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| how does it work? |
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Selling, trading, bartering, exchange? ... no,
sharing.
Don't believe it?
read more...
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No need to bore the world with a regular blog...
just come on down to the park!
Here we share occasional items of additional interest:
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**NEW**
This
is Community (pdf, 44kb)
The Vege Swap operates with this kind of serendipity.
Looking around at the smiling, relaxed faces and bulging
bags, it’s clear that everyone present has gained something
from the morning. That's how the Vege Swap works, and
to my mind, it's the definition of community.....
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A Strange
Summer (pdf, 55kb)
Another Summer's swapping is over, and what a strange
summer it was... Is Climate Change already at work in
our own back gardens?
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Harvest
(pdf, 35kb)
On a sunny Winter's afternoon I and a friend drove her
two children, my two-year-old son, a rickety ladder,
a roll-along suitcase, a large paper grocery sack and
many 'green' bags to a workplace where a large orange
tree stood dropping its unharvested fruit.
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What we have
swapped
How does a small local area produce such incredible
variety?
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How
does it work? I - Local is lovely, simple is sustainable
(pdf, 54kb)
The Fruit and Vege Swap, in a small but important
way, allows us to see things with the kind of complexity
that can't be translated into dollar values. Time, care,
labour, effort, knowledge, skill - how do you measure
these things? You don't - you just value them,
and in order to maximise that value you share
them, abundantly.
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How
does it work? II - Off the scales (pdf,
50kb)
I turned up at the park, with some figs, to see
what would happen. I really had no expectations, and
this was part of the magic. I didn't care if ten people
came, or a hundred, or one, as long as they relieved
me of some figs, if they brought something else, so
much the better. (That was before I tasted the succulent
peaches, fresh curry leaves, and home-made apricot jam.)
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Growing
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| other swaps |
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In Adelaide's Western suburbs, swaps are also
currently running at Bowden, Henley, Grange
and Semaphore - please contact us for details.
Further afield, check our Links for swaps
across Adelaide and similar activities Australia-wide.
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