we made a zine about how to prepare dandelion coffee. You can download it <ahref="zine.pdf">here</a>. <ahref="makezine.jpg">Here are instructions on how to construct it</a>. It only requires one, one-sided (hint: use re-used paper that already had something printed on one side ☺) sheet of paper to print the whole booklet.
run your own dandelion cafe! Use the zine to find dandelion, harvest it, process and roast it. Make a solar cooker out of found materials and roast and boil the water that way without use of electricity or gas. Then serve the coffee to your local community along with printed copies of the zine.
<ahref="https://insteading.com/blog/solar-cooker/">4 types of solar cookers</a><br>
<ahref="http://www.appropedia.org/Papasan_Chair_Solar_Cooker">make a solar cooker out of a papasan!</a><br>
<ahref="http://solarcooking.org/plans/default.htm?redirect=no">some plans on how to make solar cookers from solarcooking.org</a><br>
<ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qmO47--m6g">You can make some pretty strong solar cookers with an old satellite dish. This was the method we attempted</a><br>
<ahref="http://www.appropedia.org/Parabolic_basket_and_tin_can_solar_cooker">if you're super badass you can weave a solar cooker!!</a>
these authors/thinkers have sowed their own seeds and wishes through writing and speaking and living. Those seeds found a home in our thoughts and dandelion cafe bloomed. Now dandelion cafe is a wish we send into the world, hoping the seeds will take root in nourishing soil and blossom into another dreamy reality of how the world could be.
<th><h2>“Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.”</h2>
<i>― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution</i>
There are ways in which Dandelion Cafe demonstrates biomimicry with the dandelion (taraxacum) plant.
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<li>The ephemerality of both the dandelion plant and cafe works in the favor of the organism. As each dies, the lightweight seeds are carried by the wind for propagation. For the cafe, the wind is the far-flung humans who breeze through and the seeds are the joy and knowledge of local, sustainable herbal beverage crafting.</li>
<li>Both cafe and plant provide a free resource for those who come upon it</li>
<li>Both are as simple as possible to maximize ease of propagation</li>
<li>Using the sun for energy</li>
<li>The seed (zine) contains everything you need, just add water and sun (and actual dandelions)</li>
</ul>
giant corporate cafes exhibit biomimicry with the ways dandelion has been falsely demonized as:
dandelion cafe debuted in 2018 at the <ahref="https://ecoculturelab.net/feverish-world-symposium/">Feverish World Symposium</a>, on the University of Vermont campus. UVM wouldn't let us serve the dandelion coffee we prepared for this event so we were forced to simply display the solar cooker and hand out the zines. <i>You win this time capitalism! But this is not the last you'll hear of Dandelion Cafe!</i><br><br>
