Back Yard Barter- at Hunter Tree Farm June 12

Time: June 12, 1pm to 3pm
Location: Hunter Gathering Place
Street: 7744 35th Ave NE

Backyard Barter is a volunteer run organization staffed by a passionate group of ‘makers’ who believe in supporting community, cash free exchange, and sharing the pleasure and craft of DIY food & garden production.

Its focus is on the homemade and the homegrown. This can span a huge range of stuff – here is a partial list of trade items they have seen: fresh eggs, honey, flower, bulbs, seeds, baked goods, handmade soap, edible plants, garden seeds, fruit/vegetables/herbs, kimchi, beer/mead and jams/jellies, homemade yogurt, homemade laundry soap, homemade skin care products, redworms for vermiculture, compost tea, ornamental plants.

The exchange value of any given item is up to each barterer. The process is a simple one, you just ask ‘would you like to trade your (eg jar of blackberry jam) for my (eg loaf of bread)..’ or whatever you are trading. Sometimes people will say ‘no thank you’ but most often the trade works perfectly. Remember, this is a cash-free exchange.

Monthly Barters – They try to hold a minimum of 10 barters/year. Monthly events are scheduled for a 2 hour block, the first 45 minutes are designed for sign-in (your sign-in sheet will have space for item descriptions, but some people find it helpful to prepare labels and/or ingredient lists ahead of time) & set up. Once you have your goods arranged you can check out the other items offered for trade and meet your neighbors. Trading opens at the beginning of the second hour, and it is requested that people wait for the ‘bell’ to start their actual trading.

Location: the vision is to include as many neighborhoods in the city as possible in the bartering network. Events have been held in the NE (Ballard, Crown Hill), North (Greenwood Library, Shoreline, Phinney), Central (Seattle Farm Coop), SODO (Second Use Building Materials), Beacon Hill (Beacon Rocks), and West Seattle (Youngstown Cultural Arts Center) neighborhoods. New neighborhood venue ideas (and partners) are welcome; email them at connect2barter@gmail.com if you have an idea or would like to help facilitate a new location.

See more information on Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/BackyardBarter