Great article on urban neighbor food sharing

I love this concept. Let's think about how we can have a neighbor(hood) exchange barter market....

"...It was just another day of urban fruit foraging for Ms. Wadud, one of a growing number of people who looked around their cities, saw trees full of fruit and thought, “Delicious.”
A year and a half ago, Ms. Wadud, who studied urban sociology in college and bartended at Chez Panisse, began organizing a little neighborhood fruit exchange called Forage Oakland. She did it as much to build neighborhood relations as to get her hands on some of that fruit.
It works simply. A woman with a yard full of lemon trees, say, can share her bounty in exchange for a paper bag full of someone else’s persimmons when they come into season. So far, 200 people have signed up...." Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/dining/10Fruit.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=neighbor%20can%20you%20spare&st=cse