Share your garden surplus with people you trust
GrowOperative is a garden share app for the produce you grow but cannot eat. List your extra vegetables, herbs, and eggs, and share them through a network of people you already know, no cash needed on every exchange.
Too much zucchini is a real problem
A good garden gives you more than one household can use. Tomatoes ripen all at once, the herbs go to seed, the eggs pile up. Composting good food feels wrong, and selling it is more trouble than it is worth. Most of that surplus goes to waste simply because there is no easy way to move it to someone nearby who wants it.
A garden share built on trust
Post what you have in the app. Your listing begins inside your own circle of contacts and ripples outward as people pass it along, friend to friend. Anyone connected to you by trust can see it, so your surplus reaches neighbors and friends of friends rather than strangers on the open internet.
No cash required
When someone takes your produce, the app records it as a line of credit instead of a cash sale. You keep a running tab and settle up later in whatever way suits you both. This is mutual credit, and it means small neighborly exchanges no longer need a payment every time.
Who it is for
Gardeners and homesteaders with a glut to share, neighbors who would rather trade than throw food away, and anyone who wants to keep good produce moving through their community. You do not have to grow anything to take part; if you eat, you have a place in the network.
Want the details? See the FAQ or learn how mutual credit works.
Start sharing your surplus
See how GrowOperative works in the web demo, then download the app to start sharing with people you trust.