Dandelion Communitea Cafe

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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Wednesday, November 16 at 7 pm Free Admission! Grab your camp chairs and picnic blankets and join us for an outdoor screening The Greenhorns, courtesy of Wise Acre Farm.  This new uplifting documentary is about America’s young farming community.  Dandelion will be selling our delicious Eat Local Week menu inside, along with other yummy foods and refreshments.  [...]

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Hello sweet breezy weather that makes you want to get cozy with a fresh brewed cup of hot tea and a big bowl of homemade chili!!!! As we prepare for VegFest this weekend and with an eye on the upcoming Eat Local Week and Winter Park Harvest Festival, we cannot help but notice the sweet [...]

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We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! Check out this sweet video promotion put together by the awesome couple at In Joy Healthcare. You can enter to win a Iridology & Nutrition Session when you get a Communitea Tumbler which includes a customized nutrition plan, digital photos of the irises, and digital recording of the Iridology Interpretation.  (*** [...]

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Because dad’s rule, that’s why! Bring in your pops (or pops, bring in your kids!) and grab a cold one on us. You deserve a wholesome celebration with the family at your favorite home-away-from-home. See you on Sunday!

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According to Wikipedia: The first known observance of Memorial Day was in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865; freedmen (freed enslaved Africans) celebrated at the Washington Race Course, today the location of Hampton Park, and each year thereafter. African Americans founded Decoration Day, now referred to as Memorial Day, at the graveyard of 257 Union soldiers [...]

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In case you hadn’t noticed, we love Mama’s around here. We are blessed to be able to nourish so many mama’s throughout their pregnancies and are usually the first destination with new baby when it’s time to get out and about. Then, of course, we get to see our new little earthlings grow up. I [...]

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Like we said here, bottled water is a total sham, which is why we don’t sell it at the cafe. All the water at Dandelion goes through a whole house water filter system.

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We are blessed to bring you a message from deep in the Amazon this week. Good friend and customer Janice Steiber Rous recently returned from the Amazon tasked with Awakening the Dreamers in Florida. She’s starting this week at Dandelion by introducing us to the Pachamama Alliance at Green Drinks, Thursday, February 18th at 7pm. [...]

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Yeah, so sometimes it’s so cool to have this place called Dandelion in our lives. Traveling gypsies Hymn for Her (watch video of their life on the road) are back in town to amuse us with their magic bag full of songs this Thursday, January 7th at 8pm. You can catch them live on Front [...]

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Thank you for standing by us this year. It’s a beautiful example of what is possible when we participate in community. Have a wonderful holiday!

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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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Just saw this great trailer for Fresh, a movie that looks to be a follow up to Food, Inc. Shows the solutions that are already in place in parts of the country to act as alternatives to our overprocessed fake food system. Take a look:

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After I opened Dandelion, I quickly began to understand that one community-focused cafe wouldn’t (and couldn’t) make it all by itself. Judy Wicks transformed her entire community through her own cafe in Philly & in this interview she explains my own observation about sustainable business so well: “You cannot have one sustainable business. That’s not [...]

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Food, Inc. could not have come at a more crucial time. What is revealed about our mass produced food system in this documentary were the main reasons that Chris & I opened Dandelion several years ago. When I saw it recently, I knew that despite the hard times, we had to make sure Dandelion kept [...]

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