Quaker Barter Fair - Earth Day

Learn more here: https://friendshouston.org/events/barterfair/

All are welcome to this outdoor, dog & family friendly event.

To get involved, just come. Bring a table, shelf, rug or blanket to display your goods or a sign that describes your service(s).

CHILDREN ARE WELCOME! Children are often the best models of how this can work. They have the ability to add value to an item by describing potential uses, and the creativity to negotiate three-way trades.

The Quaker Barter Fair offers the community an opportunity to share in the practice of the Quaker testimonies of simplicity, community, stewardship and earth care by creating a space to practice thinking together in a new way about how we place value on objects and services within our community.

And it is a fair, with live music, story telling, games, a labyrinth, and more.

There will be a designated area for “free” items that you are willing to give to whomever wants them. Visitors may then use such items to barter and trade with if they wish. At the end of the day, whatever is left on the free table will be donated to a local charity.

No money will be exchanged for services or goods. The purpose of this event is to challenge those who choose to participate to think about repurposing or exchanging what has already been produced as an alternative to using more of the earth’s resources.

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