Crop Swap

Free, fresh produce available to all.

Check Crop Swap’s Facebook page or Provincetown Health Department’s Instagram for delivery updates.

Please remember to wash all fruits and vegetables before eating them. Sorry, bags are not supplied, so please bring your own…

…Or consider buying a Crop Swap Tote from our gift shop! Profits from sales of these tote bags go directly to Crop Swap.

About this service

Crop Swap offers free, fresh produce to the community. It is like the premise of the swap shop at the town’s transfer station: people can drop off fresh, uncut fruits and vegetables, and people can take away what they need. 

The Crop Swap refrigerator is located on the first floor of the Library and is available during Library hours.  

SKIP (Soup Kitchen in Provincetown), J&E Produce, Stop & Shop, Provincetown Farmers’ Market,  CapeAbilities Farm (in collaboration with Barnstable County and the Homeless Prevention Council) are among the committed donors of fresh produce and funds.

The Crop Swap is a collaborative program of the Provincetown Health Department, the Provincetown Public Library, The Friends of the Provincetown Public Library, and the Soup Kitchen in Provincetown (SKIP).

Want to help?

Crop Swap is run primarily by volunteers who:

  • manage quality control of the produce in the fridge and nearby shelves on the first floor inside the Library

  • tend to the Garden Towers in the Library

  • pick up items from regular donors

  • spread the word about Crop Swap

Anyone interested in volunteering or providing regular donations can email araff@clamsnet.org.

Our garden towers

The Library now houses two 6-foot-tall hydroponic garden towers. They produce fresh vegetables that are harvested and placed into Crop Swap by volunteers.

These towers grow food year-round. They are located on the second floor, on both sides of the Rose Dorothea schooner model.