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Fruit and Veggie Exchange
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You don't have to grow everything...just grow enough to share and trade with your neighbors. Use this group to gift or barter produce from your fruit trees and gardens.
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Latest Activity: Mar 8
Neighborhood gleaning projects. If you know of more please email us.
Comment on our wall below to barter homegrown organic fruit and produce with neighbors or contact one of the following gleaning groups:
Other Resources for Fruit Gleaning:
Produce to the People - San Francisco
If you live in San Francisco and have a garden that produces more fruits and veggies than you can eat, you may register your garden or fruit trees for harvest.
Food Runners - San Francisco
Food Runners in SF picks up excess perishable and prepared food from businesses such as restaurants, caterers, bakeries, hospitals, event planners, corporate cafeterias, and hotels and delivers it directly to shelters and neighborhood programs that feed the hungry.
SF County Urban Gleaning Program For SF residents who want their fruit trees harvested for food banks.
Visit our Harvesting page for information on how you can offer your extra fruit for the hungry, or pick yourself and donate to an organization near you.
Forage Oakland - Oakland
Fruit mapping in Oakland neighborhoods and connecting neighbors for fruit bartering and sharing.
Backyard garden bounty exchanges now happening in:
Mill Valley (Saturdays 9AM Boyle Park),
Novato (Saturdays 9AM Novato Unified School District Lawn),
Sun Valley (Saturdays 9:30 AM Sun Valley Park),
San Anselmo (Saturdays 9AM Town Hall Lawn) and
Fairfax (Saturdays 3PM Sustainable Fairfax Backyard).
We help network gardeners with land with gardeners without land, send out volunteers to harvest unpicked fruit trees and list gardening events in Marin County on the website. New map tracking the productive land in Marin - add your garden!
Free Farm Stand - San Francisco
We grow as much food as can in San Francisco and distribute it for free at our Free Farm Stand. We act as a gathering place in the Mission to encourage community growth and involvement. This effort revolves mostly around gathering surplus food from neighborhood gardens, various farmer’s markets, community gardens, public and private fruit trees, and hosting a space where this bounty can be shared with all.
Discussion Forum
I am hosting a food swap
Hey guys on this Sunday I am hosting a homemade food swap at my house in Castro Valley from 10-noon. Everything swapped needs to be grown/raised by you or made in your kitchen. Let me know if you…Continue
Started by Tracy Mills Sep 28, 2012.
New weekly crop swap in Berkeley
*PRODUCE SWAP* Transition BerkeleyPresents a weekly CROP SWAP starting Monday July 18th - 6:30-7:30 p.m.Meet fellow urban food gardenersExchange fruit and vegetable cropsTrade your lemons for…Continue
Started by Michele Senitzer Jul 20, 2011.
Trading backyard produce in N. Oakland/S. Berkeley 2 Replies
I have a year round garden and would love to find people to do regular trades with in N. Oakland/S. Berkeley. (I travel by bike and would love to find people as local as possible) Currently I have a…Continue
Tags: chard, lambs, quarters, parsley, kale
Started by Kendra. Last reply by Kendra May 2, 2011.
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Comment by Kitty Sharkey on December 22, 2011 at 8:32am -
Heya Tracy - I'd LOVE to get some grapefruit. Send me a message to let me know what your schedule is like and I'll try to see if I can make it. It's a little tight with the holidays and all, but I'd like to squeeze out enough time.
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Comment by Tracy Mills on December 22, 2011 at 7:45am -
Does anyone want some grapefruit? I have a tree full. I live in Castro Valley. You will need to pick them and bring your own bags.
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Comment by Jenny Shore on November 8, 2011 at 10:43pm -
no one yet. i've been busy as well. was thinking to post on craigslist. also would be happy to just give some apples away. i'm in richmond in case that makes a difference.
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Comment by Found Fruit on November 8, 2011 at 9:51pm -
Have you found a taker on the apples?
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Comment by Jenny Shore on November 7, 2011 at 7:30pm
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my wish came true and i have way too many apples now. would anyone like some apples or to join me in processing for a generous split?
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Comment by Kendra on October 31, 2011 at 2:46pm -
Fall Harvest Backyard Crop Swap this Saturday Nov. 5th 11-1:30
http://www.foundfruit.com/events/fall-harvest-backyard-crop-swap
I'll be bringing homemade jam & excess veggies and herbs from my garden.
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Comment by Kendra on September 30, 2011 at 7:33am
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Oh yes, by the by, Backyard Crop Swap tomorrow (Saturday Oct. 1st, & the FIRST Sat of every month)
Bring your homegrown fruits, veggies, herbs, eggs, honey, etc.
http://ebcaswaps.blogspot.com/2011/08/monthly-food-swaps-at-n-oakla...
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Comment by Kendra on September 29, 2011 at 9:38pm
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I have a ton of kale & broccoli starts right now if anyone is up for a trade. I'm in N. Oakland near the Emeryville border.
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Comment by Emily Morrison on September 15, 2011 at 10:02am -
I am rich in cherry tomatoes and this other kind of hybrid tomato that is yellow in color, larger than a roma and looks like a potato. I call them potatomatoes. I would love to trade for greens, herbs, or other starts! Thanks all.
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Comment by Jenny Shore on September 14, 2011 at 10:09pm
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This sat (9/17) the folks on the 400 and 500 blocks of 60th just east of Telegraph are having simultaneous garage sales. I'll have starts out and would trade for lots of things including collards, turnip greens, flower seeds and more. i have mustard, cilantro, arugula, broccoli, purple cauliflower, snap peas, spinach, kale, various lettuce starts and fresh stinging nettle. would love to trade for kahlua!
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