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Where can I find, trade or sell home-grown vegetables and fruits?

Home grown vegetables
Home grown vegetables
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Photo by Jane Gates

If you grow fruits and vegetables you know how sometimes you get too much of a good thing -- or not enough from your garden. Instead of ringing the doorbells of neighbors you've already drowned with your extra produce and running away, leaving a bag of your goodies on the doorstep, wouldn't it be a great idea if you could be part of a network of traders? Then you could trade your extras with those of someone who has more of what you didn't grow in your garden. Even better, you could donate your excess edibles to non-profits that will get them to where they are needed. And people who would love to grow their own edibles but can't could find yours.  You could trade, sell or give away your beautiful produce to those who will really appreciate it. And you could find the fruits and vegetables you'd like to have yourself. Well, guess what? the idea is alive and well on the Internet. Just check out the Farmer's Garden Website online.

Some Connecticut gardeners really got fascinated by the possibilities of PHP programming and decided to use what they learned to create a handy online opportunity to direct home-grown produce where it needs to go. You can choose whether you want to buy, sell, trade, give away or acquire edibles in your local area. It is like an online classified section for healthy, fresh food. Check out the Farmer's Garden Website. It's perfectly free and a wonderful way to share the wealth of home-grown food. Then you'll know what to do with those extra tomatoes, squashes, grapes or beans that are ready to harvest all at once.

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Jane Schwartz Gates is a landscape designer, garden coach, horticulturist, licensed landscape contractor and garden columnist. She is also a professional painter and illustrator with gallery showings around the world. Her focus is on 'painting with plants' by helping people design and build...

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