>> Fair trade music’s got a new caffeinated beverage, sort of. A new San Francisco based company’s combining world music with fair trade practices via an “Equal Exchange/Fair Trade model in which independent artists get at least 50% of all retail sales.” Now, Adina’s brought new coffee energy drinks — a.k.a. Adina Natural Highs — for fair trade music fans to drink while dancing. Made with fair trade, organic coffee beans, the drinks are available at Whole Foods and other stores.
>> Divine Chocolate’s got Halloween chocolates this year! Get 21 ozs of Milk Chocolate Divine wrapped in Halloween foils for $15 — or purchase tubs of 200 Dark Chocolate mini bars for $35.
>> Eating local despite a missed farmers’ market. Luckily, I live just a few blocks from Co-opportunity, which gave me the ingredients for my local Tunisian potato salad with a side of garlic rainbow chard.
>> Wishing I was a CSA member. I looked at Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program members from across the nation — and found they were saving lotsa money while eating yummy local, organic food. Unfortunately, Tierra Miguel’s the only option, pretty much, for the LA area — and it doesn’t deliver to a place where I could pick it up on foot (can’t balance a whole box o’ produce on my bike).
I have two options in my area of Southern Orange county. I use http://www.southcoastfarms.com as I’ve been a very happy subscriber the last 2 years. Each quarter is $235 for a basket every other week full of fresh delicious fruits and veggies. I have always been very satisfied with the quality of the produce.
Another option I have is http://www.morningsongfarm.com. Due to being so happy with my current one haven’t seen a real need to investigate them much.
-David
Comment by David — October 10, 2008 @ 8:48 pm
siel: i’ve seen bikers with a few bags hanging off of the handlebars; is this something you could do? i always transfer my tierra miguel box into a couple of cotton bags (2 amoeba bags is about right) before leaving the pickup site and heading onto the bus so as to avoid the unwieldy box…
Comment by mb — October 11, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
… the southcentralfarmers.org are doing a CSA now
Also, Urban Green a.k.a. thesweetspotonline.com
may be doing a CSA soon…
Comment by michael — October 13, 2008 @ 11:18 am
David and Michael — Thanks for the info! I’ll put together a roundup of CSAs in the area soon –
mb — Good point! Bike Girl emailed to suggest something similar. Now I just need to figure out if the closest drop off site for Tierra Miguel is in biking distance for me (I’m kinda wimpy).
Comment by Siel — October 13, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
I don’t remember the name of the farm, but one of the vendors at the mar Vista Farmer’s market is doing a CSA.
cheers,
Larry
Comment by Larry — October 28, 2008 @ 1:29 pm