Another Neep Idea

Forget-me-Not · Another Neep Idea

Had a fab visit from Maria today. Loads of wandering around looking at plants and lovely green blether. I was sorting out unwanted bits to bring on Saturday and gave her first pickings.

I know we have the emporium but how about this.

Neep has some spare time, spare plants/eggs/ household or garden stuff they want to get rid of. Put an invite out...... Neeps come over, coffee, bicky, feedback re,'have you ever thought of that?' re garden. Fresh ideas to problems/advice and if they want the plants,pictures, clothes then fab.

I know there's freecycle, I use it too but much more friendly and lovely than waiting for a stranger to turn up.

I'm sure this probably happens anyway but why not make it happen more or why not arrange to bring unwanted stuff to get togethers???? With the understanding that if noone wants something the owner takes it home again and disposes in another direction. I know we do jam and plants etc but we must all have stuff that someone else would love?

Decided to put on permaculture thread as Maria and I were chatting about it and it does increase Neeps yields. (And happiness

)

Beth

P.S. You get friendship and a carboot fix at the same time!!!

Smooth Hound

sounds good, inknow what you mean about strangers, i want to put a few bits on, but im a bit too cautious, if im honest, im abit worried about who they are, could just be eyeing up

maybe im over cautious,

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I agree, they've always ben fine so far but have to really need to get rid of something. Try to do it ewhen OH here. Makes you feel a bit vulnerable when strangers stand in your garage etc.

Love trawling the boards though, very entertaining with a cuppa

Beth

Maria

wildgarlic

Sounds good to me - I was also thinking about this swaps thing after your comment about not having anything to swap and wondering whether we could have some neeps vouchers that we could use as swaps instead. I doubt that anyone here would abuse the swaps thing but I do know that some feel awkward taking something from the table if they haven't got anything to offer at the time. The vouchers could be swapped for something else (could be help in the garden/swap items/baking a cake etc) - hmmm this sounds like LETS doesn't it.

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Now you're talking!

Beth

gussyboy

Sounds like an excellent idea, especially the token thingy. I am growing stuff for the first time ever and looking for various things I don't even know the names for!

I don't have anything really to swap but I DO have loads of skills and things which I might be able to trade?

It sounds a bit like the LETTS scheme if anyone has heard of that?

Transition Gus

Ina

If only all these lovely NEEPS weren't so far away from us southeners... All very nice, these ideas, but the driving involved really prevents it from happening.

Sassinak

We have mentoned the LETTS scheme many times in the last couple of years.
I think we need to find out more about it and see if would fit our needs without too much work being involved for anyone. We don't want a scheme that would involve huge amounts of administration for anyone of us to try and cope with.

IainC

Would have thought that with the numbers of folk on here, there'd maybe be a "shipment route" available to cut down on the amount of driving (assuming the things to be moved are small).

I'd have no problems with storing stuff locally (for a short while) if it meant I could drop something off near work, or collect something, then drop it off later if I was passing anyway.

This forum has already saved me hassle/money by getting something from Alford to my work for the cost of a box of choccies

hopefully it wasn't too far out of the way for those involved, but I'd be more than happy to do the same kind of thing to help someone out getting something from this area across to someone else to pass on, etc.

Already done this on a "larger" scale via other groups of people, getting stuff passed from here to London (or vice versa) with people travelling for work.

annepan001

I think Kemnay has or had a LETS scheme ... does anyone know anything about that? I used to live there (more than 10 years ago) but at the time couldn't think of anything I could usefully contribute to the scheme.

I went to a workshop on local currencies/ LETS schemes / time banks last week and came away wanting to know a lot more about it. Particularly, how can we run an alternative 'currency' which doesn't link directly to Pounds Sterling? The goal being to find a way of transacting which isn't tied into the crazy ups and downs of the economy which have happened lately, and are likely to get a heck of a lot worse over the coming months/ years as the 'quantitative easing' has an effect.

Anyone got any ideas on this? The Time Bank sounded like it had potential, but the guy who was leading the workshop said it tended to be used mostly for services rather than goods. Presumably it'd be possible to create a barter system that traded goods for services and vice versa ?

Maria

Have been thinking (and talking to anyone who will listen) about this for a long time. I'll post my thoughts from discussions I've had about this, and the info I've watched and read. Fair busy just now....but I'll be back.

IainC

wildgarlic

I don't think that we should let our geographical spread get in the way of this kind of thing - Iain is right, we can take advantage of our Neepy Network - we already do this at times eg someone picking up from the food co-op and taking it back to others in their area, or picking up something from Freecycle to avoid extra journeys for people. We borrowed Iain's drain rods and these were collected via the network and returned the same way.

Sassinak

A poultry forum that I vist has this down to a fine art lol
Due to the restrictions on transporting live animals, there is no real way to get poultry from a to b.
They have a thread on the forum where people state where they are and what journeys they are likely to undertake.
I remember recently that some ducks went from Lancashire to Kent (I think it was) being passed on like a relay. They were moved by about 6 different people and were stopped and watered and given a rest at a couple of points. But it does work !!! If it can be done like that on a national scale, then surely we can manage it within Aberdeenshire

Maria

Sass wrote

Ina

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wildgarlic

Ina - print off some of the Neeps leaflets, pretty sure that they are on the forum somewhere and if not I'll upload the file - ask if you can put some up in local shops. Same goes for anyone - prefer that they were printed on recycled paper as it says that on the leaflet but we can always take that off if it proves difficult.

Ina

wildgarlic

I'll do some here and give you them next time

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I'd be happy to take part in journeys etc, being in Insch, am in the middlish I suppose. Not sure of the spread of us all, from what I see, it seems there are pockets in the north and the south but about here, I'm near to Stonehead and Maria and Wild Garlic I imagine?

I've heard of links like the chook one on a guinea pig one many moons ago.

Beth

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