"HORSE TRADING" WITH FRIENDS

[MIKENSUE]

I was wondering if there is anyone out there who "horse trades" with friends or neighbors?
We have a friend Charlie who we do a lot of trading with. I raise things like peppers (all kinds), root crops, vine crops and herbs for him, because his garden space is limited. I also can jellies, jams etc for him.
He raises things like tomatoes, beans and peas, and in return gives us things like home canned tomato soup concentrate, chickens (he just brought 10 young broilers for the freezer), eggs and jerkey made out of goose and duck, which my husband does not hunt.
I was wondering if there is anyone else who does this type of trading, and if so, what commodities do you trade?

[walls0stone]

All the time

This is how my close friends and I do it...and when I say close, we all grew up together, know each other..I think that's key.

all mannor of skills & labor...food stuff's and products.

But those friends are always in contact. so If I say, I have 50 peper plants, they don't plant any. They know they will get some..if another has tons of apples, they wait and get them from him. But after being friends since grade school, We know what we can count on. Our wives are even into it...one might knit for all of us, or do whatever.

But I think it works becouse we are all very very tight.

[dkemple1]

That is the way my family does it. If one of us have some sort of building project or something like that, we all pitch in and do it. And then when the next person needs something done, we do it all over again. It sure makes it nice. It is nice to be with my siblings and it saves a lot of money too. I am currently looking for someone to build a small cabin for me using the barter system. I was going to trade my tractor for it, but I ended up selling that, not I have to be more imaginative. If anyone is interested, I live in southern Indiana.