Check out Cambridge Food Swap, a group which gathers to share home-made, home-grown or foraged goods with one another.
Swaps allow direct trades to take place between guests – for example, you might exchange a loaf of home-made bread for a jar of jam and half a dozen eggs – but crucially, no money changes hands at all, your currency is your produce.
There is always a huge diversity of goods, with recent offerings including lavender-infused vodka, marmalades, marshmallows, cookies, bundled fresh herbs, sausages, limoncello, home-made pasta, bags of pecans, pierogies and pies.
You name it, somebody will bring it! It’s not all about swapping though, attendees are encouraged to have a good natter, exchange ideas for recipes, and get help from and offer help to others.
To find out when the next events are, keep an eye on the Cambridge Food Swap website.