Basics:
Galora, a now defunct gardening site, once facilitated selling, sharing or trading homemade and homegrown products, ranging from crafts and cookies to fruit and veggies
Expected pay: Varies
Husl$core: $
Commissions & fees: None
Where: Nationwide, however, existing communities are strongest in California, Honolulu and Austin
Requirements: Homemade or home-grown items to sell or trade
What was Galora?
Galora was a marketplace to sell or share home-grown and homemade items, from backyard veggies and fruit to crafts, chutneys and jelly. But the site shut down and now goes to an empty page. RIP lovely gardening site.
Galora Review:
Galora, once found at gogalora.com, aimed to connect neighbors, who want to give, barter, trade or sell the abundance of backyard fruit and veggies. A great idea that aimed to capitalize on the organic food trend, the site was operated by an idealistic home gardener, who apparently got tired of updating a site that never gained much momentum.
How it worked
Like Nextdoor, Galora charged nothing to list items for sale or trade or communicate with other members.
That said, the profit-making potential was pretty limited here too. Only a few people may sold their homemade products here. Other gardeners simply traded their backyard produce for other gardener’s backyard produce.
Alas, the site never gained the social mass you need to earn a profit and the owners shut it down.
Barter and share
By the same token, the idea of sharing garden produce has a lot of momentum in some communities. However, you’re likely to find these sharing communities on established social media sites, like Instagram, Facebook and Nextdoor.
Posting on these sites is also free. So if you have a backyard full of fruit trees or berry bushes, alert your neighbors — or set up a booth at a local farmer’s market. Booths at Farmer’s Markets can cost as little as $2o a week, so anyone with an abundance of valuable produce — think avocados, oranges, peaches or blueberries — can turn a small but steady profit.
Recommendations
We liked this site and will miss it.
In the meantime, if you want to connect with neighbors to have a fruit exchange — or maybe offer a neighborhood booth at a local farmer’s market — we’d suggest that you organize on Nextdoor. Nextdoor is a social media site that neighbors use to talk about everything from lost dogs to real estate.
Updated 5/21/2025
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