Tweed Shire Community Exchange

Second Market Day Chillingham

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:17:05 +0000

Hello our Second market stall will be at CHILLINGHAM MARKETS

on the 8th of November

see you there

Dolph

Karma Bought me a Car

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:31:55 +0000

Karma kicks into gear

Kirsty Noffke | 22nd October 2009

Tweed Shire Community Exchange administrator Dolph Cooke with his 300-karma car.

DOLPH Cooke can boast the cheapest car on the Tweed – because it did not cost him any money.

The Burringbar resident bought his latest set of wheels for 300 karma points, a bartering system used in the Tweed Shire Community Exchange.

“The exchange works exactly the same as the cash world but without cash,” Mr Cooke said.

“So you can buy, sell, teach, help, work for and exchange your skills, labour, products and creativity for an agreed sum. You can then use that sum to buy or use something else.”

Mr Cooke, who is the exchange’s administrator, said his 300-karma car was a great find.

“I got it registered the next week, it was a fantastic buy. I also bought a brand new petrol whipper snipper from the Central Coast for 35 karmas.”

And he added there were no limits to what can be exchanged.

“I have rented a rooster so my ladies could get babies. And now I don’t need an alarm clock,” he said.

The online exchange has a market stall once a month at different locations to help spread the word.

“We also have things to sell for karmas or we might take cash if you’re an ultra nice shopper,” Mr Cooke said.

“Once we get enough members we will have a market day just for exchange people where you can buy everything on full karmas.”

The Tweed Shire Community Exchange is free to join and each new member gets 1000 karmas to start using straight away.

Visit www.tweedshire.info

1st ever Market Day 27-9-09

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:05:08 +0000

Hello Everyone

We will have our first ever market day in Murwillumbah on Sunday the 27th of September 2009. The focus will be on recruiting for the Tweed Shire Community Exchange.

Come have a look i will take photos and post soon

Dolph

Farmers Market Feast

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:50:22 +0000

Farmers market feast
September 13^th
Burringbar, School of arts Hall

The Burringbar, School of arts Hall is holding a farmers market feast, lunchtime Sunday
September 13th . All money raised will assist the hall committee to pay some of the $4500 insurance fee in November.

The hall committee is hoping to combine the country atmosphere of the beautifully renovated heritage listed hall overlooking the dairy cows grazing in the paddock with great local food. The generous stallholders from the New Brighton farmers market and Byron/Bangalow farmers market will be donating produce to get this feast started.

Most of the food will be from a 50 km radius, and if this lunch proves to be a success. Then these fees will be held on a regular basis in different locations

There will be wine and local boutique beer being sampled on the day, but you can BYO your own alcohol.

Non-alcoholic drinks will be available for sale. Some of the local foods being can shoot and will include mushrooms, avocados, beef, pork, organic chicken and turkey, salads and vegetables, macadamia nuts, strawberries, bar none, pecans, wood fired breads, Coffee to name a few.

All these ingredients are available at the farmers market every week at New Brighton, Byron and Bangalow.

These genuine farmers markets are such a valuable asset to the region, only the farmers are able to sell their produce and attend these markets so shopping is more of networking experience is where you can chat to the farmer, and by the freshest seasonal produce available.

Hopefully there will be a farmers market set up in the Tweed Shire in the near future.

The cost is $40 per head, with entertainment, produce displays and local produce raffles to complement the day. Stick around and watch the cows come in for the afternoon milking from the veranda. Everyone is welcome, and there will be a chance to mix with those who have grown the ingredients so pick their brains about starting your own veggie garden. Guest speakers will explain the benefits of eating local and fresh in the burringbar cheese ladies well give you a rundown on the cheese is being consumed. You will need to secure your bookings in its fabulous degustation, mastication farmers celebration before the date on 0266771111 all e-mail in cheese@bigpond.com

Canberra Trip turns into winfall for Tweed Shire

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:34:33 +0000

A last minute call to visit a living relative before the addition of morphine was all it took to make me drop 3 planned days of Community Exchange work.

We made it to Canberra in record drive time for me anyway
(No speed limits were harmed in the making of this journey)

Good news is NAN who had not been eating the entire week prior perked up upon our presence and ate a whole heap and was alive with energy which prompted the doctors to stall their dreaded MORPHINE PLAN.

So I thought what can we do while NAN slept ?
IDEA *

Look on the ces website for Canberra CES /// Bugger could not find one
Ok Look on the ces for SYDNEY , Central Coast any town we drive through on the way home. BINGO

I found this Beut new whipper snipper for only 35 Karma’s
and a yogurt maker for only 10 Karma’s

Check it out ->

Now I can add whipper snippering to the work I do or even hire the wipper out to folks who don’t have one.

THANKS TO LESLEY for these great buys and an excellent IDEA she has given me that I will Launch soon

Dolph Cooke