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dandelion cafe is a solar powered cafe playfully serving local dandelion coffee, zines and resilient ways of being



the jist

coffee shops are unsustainable and exploitive. Better to source dandelions locally and share dandelion coffee with your friends for free!

we made a zine about how to prepare dandelion coffee. You can download it here. Here are instructions on how to construct it. 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.


our process

we harvested dandelion root at our friends Sophie and Nathan's farm. Bless these friends. We got there via bike, bus and solar-powered truck.


reading/listening list

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.
resource for coffee x slavery, environ impact, fair trade=not fair


“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.”

― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution



biomimicry

There are ways in which Dandelion Cafe demonstrates biomimicry with the dandelion (taraxacum) plant. giant corporate cafes exhibit biomimicry with the ways dandelion has been falsely demonized as:

acknowledgments

dandelion cafe was initially forged on unceded Abenaki land.

dandelion cafe was come out of the heads of Francesca Enzler and Trav Fryer.

special thanks to Sophie Cassel who bestowed hella knowledge about herbs.


history

dandelion cafe debuted at the Feverish World Symposium, 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. You win this time capitalism! But this is not the last you'll hear of Dandelion Cafe!



contact

you can email us at goodday@dandelion.day




why do anarchists only drink herbal tea?
Because proper-tea is theft