Posted on January 25th, 2012 by Julie Norris
Click for the Meetup Page Worker-Owned Cooperatives with Gar Alperovitz February 16, 2012 at 7pm ***Field Trip to Rollins College!*** Author, political-economist, historian Gar Alperovitz–one of the designers of the Cleveland Model of worker-owned cooperatives that is receiving a lot of media attention from Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Nation, to [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Julie Norris
Dandelion is a proud sponsor of a talk by Charles Eisenstein titled Sacred Economics: Food, Music, and the Crisis of Civilization at the Timucua House this Friday, January 20th at 7pm. You’ve heard Charles over the airwaves of Front Porch Radio and his admirers have grown exponentially since the Occupy Love video (watch below) made it’s internet [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Julie Norris
We hope you are enjoying this delightful holiday weather as you make your final preparation for the holidays! Just a quick reminder that we will be CLOSED on Christmas and CLOSING EARLY at 4pm on Christmas Eve. Even though the cafe is closed, there will still be a moon circle on Christmas Eve in the [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2011 by Julie Norris
We were just casting our ballot for theOW Best of Orlando and realized that Orlando is SO coming into it’s own…. there are SO many quality options to choose from this year that it is hard to decide. Of course, we hope you will consider us for the Best Vegetarianand Best Teahouse categories again this year. When [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2011 by Julie Norris
We wouldn’t miss one of the biggest events of the year in honor of Mama Earth!!!! Central Florida Earth Day started five years back at Dandelion & this party soon outgrew our little block! Instead of the event coming to us, we head over to Lake Eola and set up a tent with our world [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2010 by Julie Norris
I’d like to invite ya’ll down to the Florida Film Festival to a special screening of What’s “Organic” About Organic? on Saturday, April 10th at 3:30pm. This film explores many of the issues I discussed in my last post. There will be a mini farmers market hosted by the Ourlando Local Food Alliance after the [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Julie Norris
Excerpt from the article: Julie Norris, co-proprietor of Dandelion Communitea Cafe near downtown Orlando, said that the local farmers were not only chosen for their proximity. Their independence from the mass markets allows them the freedom to emphasize quality. “It’s so important to know your grower,” Norris said. She said with the overuse of pesticides, [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Julie Norris
The next couple of weeks are going to be delicious, educational and entertaining, we promise. Here are some highlights: For more on the local food movement, watch the above video (taped in 2007) and check out our answer to Why Local? Eat Local Week by Slow Food Orlando is January 25-31st As you know, Dandelion [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Julie Norris
Featuring the the documentary “Food Fight” by Chris Taylor and food by Chef Josh Oakley. Tickets: $18, includes hors d’oeuvre, beer, coffee and tea. Durng last year’s Florida Film Festival, I watched the film Food Fight with a couple of other sassy ladies in the local food movement & we immediately began planning this “Farm [...]
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