Dandelion Communitea Cafe

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 To Table” event, [...]

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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 what [...]

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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 keepin [...]

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