The cold days have moved in, settling into the gaps beneath the windows and the tiled kitchen floor that now feels like ice beneath bare feet. I bake to warm my hands and leave the oven door open afterward. My canning, preserving, squirreling away are all but done for the year, jars stocked up on […]
Happy August! I have some marvelous news to share. DC Food Swap, Brooklyn Swappers, and The Portland Preservation Society are partnering together to facilitate an old-fashioned pen pal program, a way to meet your fellow food swappers through snail mail! Since there are so many incredible food swaps throughout the country, we wanted to band together to foster […]
The night air is cold but the sun is regaining his strength. A thin layer of yellow pollen glows on my window sill like gold dust. Giant magnolias shed their pink petals on the sidewalks. Red-breasted robins peck for worms in the dirt. I am riding my bike again with just a light jacket for […]
The food swap community is growing, and it’s growing fast. A couple weeks ago, I started chatting with Brooke of Little Canoe and founder of the Portland Preservation Society in Portland, Oregon about our respective swaps, and we’ve both noticed the same trend – we can’t have swaps often enough or large enough to meet the […]
Our second DC Food Swap this Sunday was big and raucous like an Italian kitchen. The number of swappers was double that of our first food swap and our venue was filled to bursting with old friends, new friends, and towers of pickles, candies, homemade bread and marshmallows. My parents even came! They drove two hours […]
What’s a food swap? It’s a market where food is currency. Where you trade your homemade ricotta for a jar of sour cherry jam, or honey yogurt for a vial of local honey, or pickled okra for a handful of garlic. Where you learn about how to make vegan empanadas, how to grow a mushroom […]
