Collaborative Consumption

When I think of collaborative consumption I think of something a girlfriend and I do together.

We both have veggie patches, we plan what each of us will grow during what season and share the produce between the families. She has a pear tree, I have an apple tree, she grows lettuce, I grow tomatoes, she grows potatoes, I grow beans etc. We also share things we need to produce our crops...she has hay in her paddocks, I have free access to chook poo!!! LOL

Between us, we usually harvest way more than we need, so some goes to her parents (her father then goes shooting and brings home the 'kill', her mum cooks it and spreads it around the group), some goes to my dad, some go to our neighbours. By doing it this way, we're able to have a better variety of what we like without having too much of the one thing, but also helps us to rotate our crops which is better for the soil.

I think it's groups, big or small, of like-minded people coming together sharing ideas, experiences and things in order to achieve a common goal,cheaply and efficiently.