The Goods Are Odd

One way to save money on local, organic, healthy food is to check out who in your community may have excess of something you are in need of. For instance, we learned in the craigslist ‘free’ section that a lovely family had taken in many many chickens to relieve people of finished class projects or failed personal homesteading endeavors. These chickens forage on their large plot of land, just the free ranging local food we are looking for. And since they were so busy with their clucking charges they were willing to trade for garden goods.

At the time of reading this post our neighbors who share our garden were out of town, and we had an unwieldy abundance of green beans, snap peas, and (of course) zucchini. We also had harvested a friends lemon tree, with this trade in mind. So we brought our extras for a wonderfully fair trade for some of the most darling and delicious eggs I’ve ever had.

We are excited about our ongoing relationship with the egg people and that our garden not only saves us money on the veggies we grow but is a resource to acquire other things we need as well.