Shannon Simmons created the Barter Babes website and blog about a year ago, but it was started off with only a trickle of queries. Then three women contacted her with bartered goods – mittens, truffles, preserves and bread – and everything changed. “They came and when they realized it was quality advice and you actually [...]
A 32-year-old Seattle man who was kicked out of a barter fair east of Tonasket for selling drugs Saturday night landed in the Okanogan County Corrections Center after police stopped his converted school bus. The driver allowed police to search the bus, and in a safe they found what appeared to be dried mushrooms and [...]
There’s a new timebank serving Washington county New York: Battenkill Time Traders. “At its most basic level, Time banking is simply about spending an hour doing something for somebody in your community. That hour goes into the Time Bank as a Time Dollar. Then you have a Time dollar to spend on having someone doing [...]
Created by the Value Card Alliance, an Arizona-based commercial barter group, the flex spending plan gives its members access to more than 200 medical specialists across the state by way of bartering. Bartering, the trading of goods and services without the exchange of money, is becoming a common practice in Arizona, according to local experts. [...]
According to Financial Times, Tehran and Beijing are getting around sanctions placed on oil by the U.S. by resorting to a direct trade agreement. Since the U.S. dollar is the currency of choice in doing cross border deals of this kind, the U.S. has effectively blocked transfers of dollars to Iran. Read more at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2082e954-b604-11e0-8bed-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1TLTSPi4T
This is absolutely awesome. Just watch. I particularly enjoy the use of the word “hogwash”.
A skewed sex ratio of rhinos in North Bengal has forced the forest department to approach its counterpart in Assam to increase the number of female rhinos in the state. While the ideal ratio for the animal in the wild should be 1:3 (one male rhino : three female rhinos), in many forests of North [...]
Mount Shasta, Calif. — Imagine living on the fruits of your own labor. Being able, for instance, to trade a bag of cherries picked from your tree for a loaf of freshly baked bread and a jar of honey. Or bartering a pair of handmade earrings for a pound of zucchini and a bunch of [...]
Here’s a great idea for urban gardeners who find themselves with too much of a good thing when harvest time comes around. The Coop La Maison Verte will be holding a “Barter Market” every Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. in front of their Sherbrooke St. location (5785 Sherbrooke W., Metro Vendome). If you’ve got [...]
New York Legislators this session voted to ban the barter of bear bile, a law that is among the measures heading to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s desk. New York is one of only five states that doesn’t place any restrictions on the trade of bear gallbladders and bile, which is a component in some traditional Chinese [...]
