Best of Orlando, with >hugs<

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 [...]

What’s “Organic” About Organic?

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 [...]

How the World’s Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be ‘Local’

HSBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself “the world’s local bank.” Starbucks is un-branding at least three of its Seattle outlets, the first of which just reopened as “15th Avenue Coffee and Tea.” Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline, “Local [...]

Farm To Table, Ourlando Style

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 [...]

Potluck Piece

UCF student, Stefanie Kuncman put together a little voice/video piece on our potlucks. She came to the Ourlando hosted potluck this week. Check it out here or read her article about it here.

From Farm to Fork | The Voice

Aug. 14, 2009 | By Megan Stokes in The Voice When Sarah Slack feels like having a salad, she doesn’t head for the refrigerator. Instead she goes out to the garden behind her home near the Orlando International Airport and picks salad greens and peppers to quench her craving.”It’s a great feeling to know where [...]

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