Valentine’s Fun At The Farmer’s Market Sunday

Valentine’s Fun At The Farmer’s Market Sunday

Weekend Plans

Sunday at the MV Farmer’s Market, The Green booth will host the founders of Your Daily Thread, an online magazine for the eco-curious, and I totally recommend coming out to meet them. Oh, and I understand there’s some sort of sporting event on Sunday as well.

Farmer’s Market Preview

Farmer’s Market Preview

Tomorrow morning at the Farmer’s Market, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama will be in the Green Booth with her lead-testing ray-gun. OK, it’s not a ray gun, but it kind of looks like one, and she’ll be using it to test for lead in toys, so bring in any suspect items your kids may [...]

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 12/6/09

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 12/6/09

Today’s shopper is Sara Davenport, owner of Broadway Skin Studio, a full service medical spa specializing in skin rejuvenation and facial contouring. Sara is going to make guacamole. She takes 2 avocados, peels and chops them, but takes care not to mash them into a paste. She then chops 1 beefsteak tomato, 1/2 a red [...]

Weekend Plans

Saturday and Sunday, PeachTree Pottery is holding its 4th Annual Holiday Art Show, 1 – 5pm, 3795 Boise Ave., MV 90066. Saturday evening, the newly-formed Mar Vista Chamber of Commerce will be meeting. 6 – 8pm, 12085 Venice Blvd. RSVP and more details here. Sunday morning, at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market (and all the [...]

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 11/15/09

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 11/15/09

Today’s shopper is Jeanne Kuntz, of TeachingWellness.com, and she’s going to make a Salad Fry. It’s a great way to combine a warm dish with a salad feel, and it’s completely customizable with whatever foods you like and can find in season, or whatever leftovers you have lying around. Here we go! She starts with [...]

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 11/8/09

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 11/8/09

Today’s shopper is Kami Turrou, a Mar Vista mom whose kids go to Richland Ave. Elementary. She’s on the board of their booster club, RichlandBooster.com, and you can make a donation anytime on their site. Kami’s going to make a carrot/yogurt salad. She starts by grating these multi-colored carrots and adding these honey crisp apples [...]

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 11/1/09

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 11/1/09

Today’s shopper is Carley Knobloch, of Mothercraft Coaching, a site that’s all about helping moms figure out who they are besides being moms. She’s awesome and so is her site! Plus she’s going to make a fantastic dish for us today: Butternut squash soup. She starts by halving the squash, removing the seeds, and filling [...]

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 10/18/09

Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 10/18/09

Today’s shopper is Dr. Susanne Bennett, a holistic chiropractor who also founded a line of skin care products called Purigenex. She’s going to make her organic heirloom tomato bolognese sauce.  She starts with 6 – 7 cloves of garlic, minced, and about 2/3 of a yellow onion, chopped and sautes them in grape seed oil [...]

Mar Vista Weekend Plans

Friday night is the All-Girl Revue at the Fanatic Salon. I highly recommend it! Those women will make you laugh, I guarantee it. Starts at 8pm. Saturday morning 10am E-Waste recycling at Whole Foods on National Blvd. First 25 people will receive a gift bag! Saturday afternoon Mar Vista Walkabout. Come help design the future [...]