Summer has flown by this year. It is my favorite season, by far: The fruits, the sunshine, swimming, outdoors, etc! I love it. I’ve been busy working full time, switching jobs, and attending summer classes… so I’ve found myself eating out a lot more than cooking. School is out for the next month, though, so hopefully I will be cooking/baking and posting more kitchen experiments. I’ll also be flying to Philly for my birthday (August 16th), which I’m really excited about.

At the beginning of summer, some of the Austin Vegans took part in the Global Vegan Waffle Party. Here are some photos from that:

Also, I attended the annual Veggie Hot Dog Eating Contest on the 4th of July, which was tons of fun, apart from roasting the Texas heat.

Hope y’all are enjoying the summer as much as I am! :)

For the past few months, I’ve been making trips to the farmers market, instead of the grocery store for all of my produce. Though Wheatsville Co-op is great because a lot of the stuff (if not all?) is organic, and some of it is locally sorced… but with farmers markets, you’re buying organic produce straight from the farm. The only draw back is that it can be a little more expensive. So today, I made my first trip out to Johnson’s Backyard Garden to do a workshare. Basically, volunteers harvest, wash, organize, and pack veggies and in exchange, get to take home a share of veggies! Today, I primarily washed veggies and packed some in boxes. I came home soaking wet (my fault for not wearing proper attire), and freezing, but It was totally fun… and I’m really stoked to see how a vegetable farm runs. not to mention the gorgeous loot I brought home! Guess who’s not spending money on groceries this week?

in my box: Huge Carrots, Hakurei Turnips, Collards, Mixed Lettuce, Spinach, Parsley(?), Radishes, Kohlrabi, Cabbage, Broccoli, Scallions, Green Garlic, Grapefruit, and Oranges!

Believe it or not, I couldn’t even fit everything in the picture. There was tons more broccoli and lettuce than shown. Hopefully I’ll get more opertunities to do more work shares there in the future.

Milo enjoyed the carrots, too! :) Thanks Johnsons Backyard Garden!

This past Sunday, Vegans in Austin got together and baked some amazing stuff for a bakesale benefiting Haiti. We made over $700! here are a few pictures of what I contributed: