LONDON (AFP) - A pub is offering pints for potatoes, or any other home-grown produce, in a bartering initiative which is taking off as the credit crunch bites.

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The Pigs pub in the village of Edgefield, eastern England, is offering the free booze in exchange for fruit, fish, meat or vegetables which can be used on its menu.

"If you grow, breed, shoot or steal anything that may look at home on our menu, then bring it in and let's do a deal," says a sign in the pub, which has swapped pints for a kilo of potatoes, three mackerel, or a locally-shot rabbit.

Manager Cloe Wasey, 24, explained: "We've been doing it for almost two years now but the success of it has only just recently started to boom with the credit crunch setting in."

"It's also great for us because we get produce at a good price, although we have high standards so the food we get in has to meet those. We find the home grown stuff is often much better than what we can get from the suppliers.

"Someone will say 'that rabbit tasted great' and we say 'here, meet the person who shot it'," she added.