Homemade Harvest Food Swap

Kendra Poma hosts the Homemade Harvest Food Swap at her house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. About a dozen cottage food producers display their food items to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. It happens four times a year.

Vanessa Toy, left, of Pleasanton, talk about her food items as hostess Kendra Poma, second from left, and others look on during the Homemade Harvest Food Swap held at Poma’s house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. The food swap brings together cottage food producers to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Gabrielle Lessard, left, Lilah Stuphen, both of Oakland, Vanessa Toy, of Pleasanton, and hostess Kendra Poma set up their food items during the Homemade Harvest Food Swap held at Poma’s house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. The food swap brings together cottage food producers to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Organic food items by Vanessa Toy, of Pleasanton, are displayed for tasting during the Homemade Harvest Food Swap held at Kendra Poma’s house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. The food swap brings together cottage food producers to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Organic food items by Vanessa Toy, of Pleasanton, are displayed for tasting during the Homemade Harvest Food Swap held at Kendra Poma’s house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. The food swap brings together cottage food producers to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Alexsarah Collier, of Oakland, talks about her juice bottles during the Homemade Harvest Food Swap held at Kendra Poma’s house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. The food swap brings together cottage food producers to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Ilah Jarvis, of Berkeley, checks different food items during the Homemade Harvest Food Swap held at Kendra Poma’s house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. The food swap brings together cottage food producers to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Ilah Jarvis, second from right, of Berkeley, talks about her food items during the Homemade Harvest Food Swap held at Kendra Poma’s house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. The food swap brings together cottage food producers to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Gabrielle Lessard, of Oakland, displays her homemade ginger-persimmons breads during the Homemade Harvest Food Swap held at Kendra Poma’s house in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. The food swap brings together cottage food producers to trade and sample each other’s homemade goods. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)