Think about the most famous barter in American History: In about 1625, Dutch governor Peter Minuit traded with the Weekquaeskeek Indians, a Canarsie tribe of the Lenape Native American Nation on behalf of the settlers from his nation and got Manhattan Island. He gave a pretty collection of beads and trinkets valued at 60 guilders, worth what would have been 24 US dollars, if there were dollars at that time. That's LESS than $2,000 today, in 2006. If the Dutch could get a whole island of 23 square miles for their settlers at about a dollar per square mile, imagine how well you can trade to get trees and shrubs for the settlers at your house!

We have registered with Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Resources as a place where you can drop off your items such as old tools, tractors, plumbing and construction supplies, farm implements, fencing materials, useable nuts and bolts... You get the picture. This is recycling and conservation at it's very best. Even the environment wins as your trading with me is a "win-win situation!"

If we can't use an item maybe we can trade it to someone else that can, or sell it at our "flea market store" in the town of Milan where we own some more properties. It's up north in Bradford County near the border with New York. "Wanna" trade for some hunting, camping, or searching for Susquehanna Indian artifacts up there? We can do that too.

I once put an ad in the paper that said, "If it free its for me," but soon had to cancel it because I collected so much great used stuff. For example, I had enough paint to dip an entire VILLAGE in it, let alone paint a house. Disposal became an issue. That's how I came up with the barter and trade idea. Now, it is TREE and SHRUBS we need to dispose of. Email us about your surplus materials, send a list with brief descriptions. Or call us.

Barter has proven to be a great is a great way to meet new people too.

Though I did not invent this wheel I have accumulated enough wheels so that it appears I might have. Barter has become a means of exchanging my surpluses for other people's surpluses. Here is a sample list from an ad that I ordinarily run on my website www.seedlingsrus.com :

Trades Wanted
We are always looking to trade our surplus nursery stock and seedlings for your surplus.
Examples of what make a ready trade are:
ANY Construction materials and equipment (lumber, brick, sand, cement, steel, etc., etc.)
Plumbing supplies
Hunting and fishing gear and items
Hand tools
Farm implements
Farm supplies
Fencing materials
Palletized stone
Lumber
Household items
Livestock


We are open from 7 A.M. 'til the last dog dies, all SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. We'll stay open late for you if you call first and make the arrangements with us. You can do some sightseeing in history-rich Doylestown or go to neighboring Lake Galena Park, or perhaps the Delaware River, and New Hope, etc. if you want to stay for awhile and make a long trip all the more worthwhile.

Its hard to believe but this is one of our most sucessful adds.