Twin Billing
Last Wednesday's inaugural Gardeners' Swap Meet at The Cause was a lot of fun. Traded items included home-grown lettuce, walnuts, cherries, grapefruit, plant starts, apricots, onions, jam, mint, and the first summer squash of the season.
This Wednesday's Swap Meet is a twin billing, with veggies being swapped from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. at the Chico Community Children's Center at 2224 Elm Street in Mulberry neighborhood of Chapman Town, and then AGAIN from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at the Chico Grange Hall at 2775 Old Nord Avenue at Rodeo Avenue.
Swap meets will occurs every second Wednesday of the month at these times and locations though mid-October.
For the complete Gardeners' Swap Meet schedule (produce is swapped every Wednesday evening), go to www.chicofoodnetwork.org.
Print it out and stick it on the fridge.
P.S. I ate my first home-grown tomato of the season last Wednesday, a sungold cherry tomato. It will be a while before I have enough to contribute some to the Swap Meets.
Comments
My household makes homemade Kombucha, and we're wondering if this would be an appropriate item for swap. Our garden isn't quite at the level for producing enough for trade, but we love this idea ... glad to see it's in effect.
Reply--
Swapping Kombucha is fine. Please be sure to label it, and if possible stick around long enough to answer any questions folks may have about it. Hope to meet you at a swap meet!
--J
Posted by: Amanda | June 16, 2008 06:54 PM