What you need to do:

Talk to your neighbors.

Send out flyers.

Slip flyers into their Sunday paper, under the front doormat, under an apple on their porch, be creative.


Sample flyer for your use:

Sample Flyer'09.doc


To host you need a table, couple of chairs and a few neighbors.


Try to get a variety of ages involved from the very beginning.


If you host, offering your home is enough.


Encourage other folks to bring the goods.


Do some detective work and note where there are fruit trees full of fruit that clearly no family could consume on their own.


Knock on doors, share the sharing vision.


Invite others to play.


Send lynn@sbfoodnotlawns.org the details.


It really is this easy...


 

Who: Mesa Neighbors

What: First Mesa Garden Exchange

Bring your extra homegrown veggies, fruits, herbs, flowers, seeds, seedlings, compost worms, chicken manure, eggs, etc.!

Where: Julie and Doug's home, XXX Drive

Why: To share produce with neighbors, to talk spring gardens,to meet your neighbors.

When: THIS Sunday, March 11, 2007, 11AM-1PM


This was our first flyer. We made a couple more then relied on word of mouth and this web site.


Additional ideas:


During your exchanges, be sure to invite any passing neighbors to join in the fun.


Take turns hosting so that everyone stays involved and it is neat to visit each other’s gardens at different times of the year.


At your exchange, schedule the following month.


Consider offering a few fun activities for children of all ages: chalk street or driveway drawings, make pine cone bird feeders (spread pine cones with peanut butter then roll in bird seed and hang), squeeze your own juices with neighborhood citrus, blow bubbles, jump rope, etc.

Just go for it!

 

 

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