Food swap

Bring your excess garden produce along and swap for other wonderful produce. A great way to meet others with similar garden interests. Great meals, coffee and cakes next door at Two Beans and a Farm.

There is a community garden at the location.

Name:

Coburg Food and Garden Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

2nd Saturday of the month, 10.30am-12.30pm

Township/suburb:

Coburg

Name:

Collingwood Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

1st Saturday of the month, 10.30-11.30am

Township/suburb:

Abbotsford

Name:

Diamond Creek Food Swap (Thrive)

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Saturday of the month, 2-3pm

Township/suburb:

Diamond Creek

Notes (in their own words):

There is a community garden at the location.

Name:

Eltham Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

4th Sunday of the month, 9.30-10.30am

Township/suburb:

Eltham

Notes (in their own words):

Look for the large white ‘Local Food Connect’ marquee at the Farmers’ Market. Come along with your homegrown fruit and veggies, favourite seasonal recipes, spare jam jars, homemade labelled preserves etc, and share and network with other local backyard growers.

Name:

Fairfield Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Saturday of the month, 11am-midday

Township/suburb:

Fairfield

Notes (in their own words):

Organised by Transition Darebin.

Name:

Fitzroy Urban Harvest Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

1st Saturday of the month, 10.30am-midday

Township/suburb:

Fitzroy

Name:

Forest Hill Urban Harvest

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Saturday of the month, 10-11.30am

Township/suburb:

Forest Hill

Notes (in their own words):

Organised by Whitehorse Urban Harvest.

Name:

Greensborough Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Saturday of the month, 10-11am

Township/suburb:

Greensborough

Notes (in their own words):

Contact either of the co-organisers: Glenn Mansfield by phone (0488 192198) or email or Margot Meredith by phone (0415 926642) or email.

There is a community garden at the location.

Name:

Heidelberg West Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

1st Saturday of the month, 10-11am

Township/suburb:

Heidelberg West

Name:

Hurstbridge Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month, 10-11am

Township/suburb:

Hurstbridge

Notes (in their own words):

This initiative is one of a number of related food-related initiatives at the site (others include a food is free table, a community garden and a seed library).

The food swap is a regular get-together centred on giving, swapping, and sharing homegrown food and garden-related items with others in the community. Its aims are to increase community access to healthy homegrown food, build strong local relationships, and reduce the amount of food-related waste and materials going to compost and landfill. It’s also an opportunity to meet new friends and catch up with old ones.

Take along your surplus produce or, if there’s not much going on in the garden, just bring yourself!

Suitable items to share or give include:

homegrown fruit and vegetables

seeds and seedlings

coffee grounds

worm juice

bags of manure

recipe cards

gardening or food magazines or books

glass jars for preserving

preserves and pickles

sourdough starters

kombucha/jun scobies and kefir grains

stories, skills, questions, and advice

Name:

Macleod Veggie Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Saturday of the month, 11am-12pm

Township/suburb:

Macleod

Name:

Montmorency Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

10-11am. 1st Sunday of the month (except for Jan when it is on the 2nd Sunday)

Township/suburb:

Montmorency

Notes (in their own words):

In all the months except January, the swap is held on the first Sunday of the month. In January, it is held on the second Sunday.

Usually, but not always, at The Monty Hub, 1-3 Mountainview Road, Montmorency, 3094 (check on their Facebook page).

The food swap is sometimes followed by a talk.

Name:

Mooroolbark Urban Harvest

Category:

Food Swap

When:

2nd Saturday of the month, 10am-11.30am

Township/suburb:

Mooroolbark

Name:

North Coburg Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Saturday of the month, 10.30am-12.30pm

Township/suburb:

Coburg North

Name:

Regent Produce and Plant Swap (Reservoir)

Category:

Food Swap

When:

1st Sunday of the month, 2-3pm

Township/suburb:

Reservoir

Notes (in their own words):

The food swap is held at the Regent Community Garden and the garden is open at the same time.

Name:

Reservoir Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Saturday of the month, 10-11am

Township/suburb:

Reservoir

Notes (in their own words):

Organised by Transition Darebin.

Name:

Ringwood Community Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Sunday of the month, 10-11.30am

Township/suburb:

Ringwood

Notes (in their own words):

Organised by Outer Eastern Permaculture Swap.

Name:

Rosanna Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

1st Saturday, 10-11am

Township/suburb:

Rosanna

Notes (in their own words):

On the same day, there is a community shared cart of herbs where people can either take or donate herbs.

Name:

South Preston Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

4th Saturday of the month, 11am-midday

Township/suburb:

Preston

Notes (in their own words):

Organised by Transition Darebin.

Name:

St Andrews Food and Plant Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Sundays of the month, 10-11am

Township/suburb:

St Andrews

Name:

Surrey Hills / Balwyn Produce Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Sunday of the month, 9-10am

Township/suburb:

Surrey Hills

Name:

Urban Orchard Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

Every Saturday, 10am-midday

Township/suburb:

Brunswick East

Notes (in their own words):

Just outside the CERES grocery

Name:

Veggie Swap at BAAG Nursery, Bulleen

Category:

Food Swap

When:

3rd Saturday of the month, 10-11am

Township/suburb:

Bulleen

Name:

Warrandyte Food Swap

Category:

Food Swap

When:

1st Saturday of the month, 9-10am

Township/suburb:

Warrandyte

Notes (in their own words):

There is a community garden at the location.