Your Veggie Community

It's about finding local food. It's about strengthening local economies. And it's about getting to know your neighbours.

If you find this site useful, we encourage you to tell others about the site. We hope to help build trading communities all across the Kent County, but we’re just getting started and need your help. Be among the first in your community to list your excess produce for sale or trade. Or if you're looking to buy local produce, post what you’re looking for in our Wanted section and see which of your neighbors answers your request.

Give it time. We believe eating locally is less expensive, more sustainable, and a better way to live. We believe
it's the future. Let's build it together.

Contact us for more information or if you have ideas for helping make this site a better community resource. And read below for a couple other ideas for how Veggie Trader can be used in the community.

Co-Operative Gardening

Cooperative gardening is focused on the idea that neighbours banding together can be more successful growing food than individuals growing alone…

The idea is pretty straight forward - a group of neighbours agrees at the start of the growing season to a list of produce they want to grow, and then each household raises the types of produce it believes they're best at growing. By concentrating exclusively on just a few crops, each household will (in theory) enjoy greater yields and better quality produce. The resulting harvest can then be swapped and distributed among the whole group, with everybody getting a little bit of everything.

We believe this is an interesting idea, and have created a Cooperative Gardening sub-section for anyone wanting to find neighbors interested in specialising and cooperation. If this is you, try posting a listing in this section. State the particular type of produce you can specialise in (and a secondary crop you can grow, if you want), and note what item or items you are most interested in receiving in return. If any of your neighbours are also interested in cooperative gardening, they can find and contact you there.