The Food Group within Transition Towns Sherbrooke is running it's first Food Swap on May 29th from 9-10am at Magpie House, in Main street Upwey. Magpie House is located across the road from the Upwey railway station.
The cost to be involved in the swap will be either $1 or 10% of the produce sold. Magpie house has said they are happy to accept food in lieu of payment for the entry fee.
As this venue holds food licenses we will need to restrict the products that can be swapped to fresh items. Seeds, seedlings, fresh produce and eggs are all welcome.
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We don't have a Trasition Towns Wingatui yet. But we do have a Corner Of The Road Sell What You Want set up.
At the corner of our road, you can buy, at various points through the year: hazelnuts, walnuts, eggs, lettuce, tomatoes, plums, chillies, herbs, poultry poo, horse poo, almonds, potatoes, peaches, apricots, lemons, feijoas...the list goes on...
It's an honesty system - people just dump money in margarine containers - but it seems to work well.
TT Sherbrooke hasn't officially launched yet, we still have a whole lot more work to do before we are ready for that but at this point it's looking positive.
The venture I am in the process I am just launching with herbs and seedlings will be an honesty system set up on the Yoga school premises as they have a really good position in Main st Upwey. It will be interesting to see how both events go.
Kind Regards
Belinda
I'm bummed to have missed this. I'll keep a closer eye out for the next one :-)
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