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looking for an app to trade my surplus produce with other local gardeners

 
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One of my persimmon trees just had a huge harvest, stopped counting after 300.  Have been giving away what I cant dehydrate or consume myself.  I was thinking I'd rather start swapping my surplus with other gardeners rather than just giving bags of my surplus away to neighbors.  My neighbors end up giving my produce to their peeps and I'd rather get something in return.   I'm trying to testdrive an app called nextdoor but signup takes a few days due to postcard verification.

Is there an app to communicate with community members about a parking lot tailgate produce swap event.  Not interested in selling, just mutually trading off my surplus?  no reason to reinvent the wheel.
 
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The ones I keep seeing recommended are FallingFruit, LocalHarvest, Facebook, Meetup, and NextDoor, though none are specifically what you're asking for. I've found swaps on Facebook through local homestead groups... individual swaps and group events.

I wish you were my neighbor! I'd love to swap for persimmon. We have just a couple of trees, and deer and birds get all of the fruit each year.
 
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thanks for the reply Nikki,  I don't like social media but I keep hearing how nice FB marketplace is, too bad for me.  I'll keep those other apps in mind if freelists fails.

Eventhough I haven't confirmed address at Nextdoor, I'm getting a partial neighborhood digest and its gossip oriented.  Not feeling it at nextdoor.    I created a local garden group on freelists and will need to advertise the mailing list at my local brick and mortar shops.  Not interested in posting it online because for it to work requires local participation.  I'll update in the spring once I've posted the ads on library bulletin boards and such.   Maybe the chain box store nursery called Armstrong will let me post, that would be cluck but counter Armstrong's own efforts if people are bartering heirloom tomatoes or seed swapping rather then shopping for them at their shop.  
 
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