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#NewZealand / #Aotearoa #CropSwap

Toha atu toha mai / I share with you, you share with me

"Crop Swap gatherings are for everyone who is happy to share. Just bring your garden's and kitchen's surplus, turn up in time (or even a little earlier to help with the set up), display your treasures nicely, walk around and admire your fellow crop swappers goodies, mix and mingle, share your best jam recipe and enjoy the presence of people who find joy in the moneyless exchange of #MotherNature's abundance. Once everyone is officially welcomed and the sharing is opened you are invited to mindfully take what you are interested in. Everything is there to go to a new home. Take your time and keep other's in mind, the slow ones, the children, the elders, so that everyone has the chance to fill their baskets with beautiful food. After this please help with the clean up, get home safely and tell everyone, how awesome it was. Next time, bring a friend!

Find a crop swap

Starting a Crop Swap hub in your area is super easy. All you need is a venue and the people. Depending on your climate, the season and the people you want to share with a Crop Swap gathering can be anywhere, in a hall, a sports club, a school, a cafe, a garage, in a park, under a pavilion or even in your living room. To make it accessible for everyone it is good to have parking close by. To make it attractive for families consider a space where children can run around safely. Having tables and a few chairs available is helpful to accommodate the needs of people with different abilities. Once you found a venue (and don't get caught up in that too much as you can always change it) invite your future fellow crop swappers. Again, possibilities are endless. There are community newspapers, school newsletters, letter box leaflets, information boards in garden centres, shops, libraries and environment centres, emails, Facebook and, of course, good old word of mouth invitations. Set a date and time for your first gathering and enjoy the flow."

FMI:
https://www.cropswap.co.nz/home

Find a crop swap near you:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1NX83ZYcJnIWBWHJ5OxZj0O88rf5vTZQ&ll=-35.646960488828775%2C175.03470622077114&z=8

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedExchange #FoodSharing #SeedSharing #FoodSwap #BuildingCommunity

#LifecyclesProjectSociety #FruitTreeProject Update.

This year, we have harvested over 63,000 lbs of fruit! Of that, almost 32,000 lbs of Grade A fruit has been donated to the community, to over 70 community service agencies throughout the Greater Victoria Area. Our tree stewards have kept 4,500 lbs, and our amazing team of 191 Harvest Leads and Pickers have taken 13,000 lbs home. 

What about the other 13,500 lbs you ask? 

Made up of B-Grade, we have processed just over 7500 lbs into juice and jam. Some of the fruit is always C-Grade (compost). To date, we have composted just under 6000 lbs of fruit - while some of this has gone to our friends at Community Composting, the vast majority has gone to a local pig farmer.

We are proud to say no fruit has gone into the landfill!

https://lifecyclesproject.ca

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #Gleaning #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #FoodEquity #CultivatingCommunities #ZeroWaste #ReduceFoodWaste #fruit #CommunityWork #harvest

"We continue to see the generosity of Little Free Library stewards in action, as many share food"
https://littlefreelibrary.org/2025/11/little-free-library-stewards-share-food-in-book-exchange-boxes-amid-snap-uncertainty/

#SolarPunkSunday #LittleFreeLibrary #LittleFreeLibraries #FoodSharing #Food

#Wheelbarrows & folks OK working with them are absolutely essential to year-round #community #OrchardCare #stewardship work!

At #WellandCommunityOrchard.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #mulch #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities

The 2nd fruiting of the #figs. These are just left on the trees for wildlife. We only pick the first flush fruiting of figs.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities #Autumn

We had fun harvesting American #persimmons from the community orchard 😊

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #fruit #harvest #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities #FreeFood #FreeFruits #Autumn

So many wheelbarrow loads of wood mulch. We got a lot done, together 😀

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #mulch #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities #Autumn

Volunteers working on mulching at #WellandCommunityOrchard. We got a big pile of fabulous, mostly cedar wood mulch from a local sawmill.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #mulch #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities

Boiling water to make tea for work party break.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities

American #persimmons harvested.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #fruits #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities #harvest

Excellent work party at #WellandCommunityOrchard today. Harvesting #persimmons & #mulching the #FruitTrees.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #mulch #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities #harvest #fruit

We filled up 11 boxes with freshly picked #GrannySmith #apples yesterday. Me, Hannah & 2 volunteers went out on a small pick(1 tree). An excellent harvest gleaning day - for Hannah's last day with LifeCycles.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#photos #slideshow #FruitTreeProject #FoodEquity
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers #CultivatingCommunities #FeedingCommunity

Great harvest pick of #GrannySmith #apples today. Granny Smith apples are currently one of the most expensive apples in local stores with average pricing of $2.99/lb. The apples we gleaned from one tree, were almost all perfect apples - very few with damage on them 🍏😃
These will be greatly appreciated by many food insecure folks around our community 👍💗

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #FreeFruit #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers

Cleaning up before we packed up & left.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers

We filled up 11 boxes - from one #GrannySmith #apples tree 🍏😀🍏

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers #Gleaning

#GrannySmith #apples harvested in the first 20 minutes.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers

Gorgeous #GrannySmith #apples that we harvested for LifeCycles Project Society. Me, Hannah & 2 volunteers worked together.
Wrapping up & heading back to the office soon.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers

Excellent apples bounty from one tree. We're still going 🍏✌️🍏 I'm tracking the harvest.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers #GrannySmith #apples

Really healthy #GrannySmith #apple tree. We're harvesting from it now.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers

On location for a granny smith apples harvest with LifeCycles Project Society 🍏

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers

I #support #women & their #families in #EdinburghNorthSmall #Muirhouse #Drylaw #Pilton #Granton #Royston #Wardieburn
We offer #food at all of our #groups #activities

Everyone needs to #eat & food is a great #gateway to other #Wellbeing activities & helps #ReduceIsolation

While #FoodBanks might have their place, not all that are #hungry & #broke can get a #referral

I put this document together for our area #PleaseShare

#FoodSharing
#FoodShare
#CommunityFood #CommunityMeals
#Dignity