Spare Harvest

What Spare Harvest does

Spare Harvest is an Australian online community platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in Slacks Creek, Queensland. According to its firmographic description, the company operates a peer-to-peer marketplace where individuals can exchange spare food and garden resources, positioning the offering within the sustainability and sharing-economy segment. The platform targets Australian consumers interested in reducing food waste and sharing home-grown produce or gardening inputs.

The company is structured as a private for-profit entity with a small operating team of 1-10 employees. The available data set contains no product catalogue, no pricing model, no funding rounds, no management team disclosures, no partnership or customer logos, and no technology stack documentation. The firm appears to be an early-stage, founder-operated community platform without disclosed monetisation mechanics.

A material inconsistency is observable in the inputs: the spareharvest.com domain currently resolves to content for "Royal Reels," a Philippines-licensed online casino targeting Australian players, rather than the food/garden exchange community described in the firm's profile. This discrepancy suggests either a domain sale, a pivot, a dormant operation, or possible domain compromise, and is a key risk consideration for any diligence process.

Name

Spare Harvest

Legal name

Royal Reels (legal entity name not disclosed on site)

Website

https://spareharvest.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Spare Harvest is an Australian online community platform founded in 2015 that enables peer-to-peer exchange of spare food and garden resources among individual users in the sharing-economy and sustainability segment.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Food and Garden Resource Exchange

akta.pro primary industry

Farm-to-Consumer Produce Boxes / CSA Delivery (AFAIANAC)

Keywords

• Food sharing community
• Garden resource exchange
• Local food swap
• Surplus food sharing
• Community gardening platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Slacks Creek

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Spare Harvest is an online community that connects people to exchange spare food and garden resources. It serves as a digital meeting place where individual community members can share surplus homegrown produce, garden materials, and related resources locally. The platform facilitates person-to-person exchange rather than commercial sales.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Spare Harvest Community Exchange Platform Online community platform that connects individuals to share and exchange surplus homegrown food and garden resources locally. Designed for home gardeners, backyard growers, and community members seeking to redistribute excess produce and gardening materials rather than discard them.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Emerging players

• Freecycle Network: Freecycle is a global grassroots network for free reuse of items in local communities. It overlaps with Spare Harvest's spare-resource-exchange model, though with a broader focus beyond food and gardens.
• Imperfect Foods (Misfits Market): Misfits Market sells "ugly" and surplus produce direct to consumers. It intersects with Spare Harvest's food-waste reduction mission through a different model (paid subscription produce box rather than peer exchange).
• Farmhouse Delivery / Local Food Marketplace operators: Farmhouse Delivery and similar regional farm-to-consumer produce box operators share Spare Harvest's local-food-distribution angle but operate commercial subscription models rather than community exchange.
• YardShare / garden sharing platforms: YardShare and similar garden-land-sharing platforms address the garden-resource side of Spare Harvest's offering, providing a niche peer in the gardening/horticulture resource sharing space.

Regional players

• OzHarvest: OzHarvest is Australia's leading food rescue charity, redistributing surplus food from businesses to charities. It addresses the same food-waste mission in the same Australian market as Spare Harvest but at a much larger scale and as a nonprofit.

Direct peers

• Too Good To Go: Too Good To Go is a marketplace connecting consumers with surplus food from restaurants and retailers to reduce waste. It overlaps with Spare Harvest's food-exchange mission at a B2C level and represents the scaled version of the surplus-sharing category.
• FoodCloud: FoodCloud redistributes surplus food from businesses to charities via a digital platform. Comparable to Spare Harvest as a food-redistribution community platform addressing food waste, though with a B2B/charity focus rather than consumer-to-consumer.
• Olio: Olio operates a community-based app for sharing surplus food and household items between neighbors. It is the closest direct peer to Spare Harvest's food/garden resource exchange model, operating with similar sharing-economy mechanics and targeting households with surplus.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/spareharvest
• Facebookfacebook.com/SpareHarvest
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/spare-harvest

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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