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How food-swap initiative Magic Beans hopes to grow
Nine To Noon
English - September 21, 2021 21:40 - 8 minutes - 7.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Magic Beans was set up five years ago by Anneliese Hough as a way people in the Hawkes Bay region could trade the food from their gardens, with no money involved. At the moment it's run via a very popular Facebook page, but Anneliese wants to make it bigger. So she and business partner Sarah Grant have sought to develop it as an app - which would allow it to operate all over New Zealand - and possibly even further afield. They'll talk to Kathryn about how it works.