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Bolsa restaurant in the Bishops art district is thinking locally. Once a month they have a mini farmers market featuring local producers that also serve the restaurant in some way. On Sunday afternoon it is a great way to spend some time with the family or just kick back and have a glass of wine or a beer, enjoy some music and eat some food. In the parking lot, local vendors like Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters share a booth with Kessler cookies. Local cheese maker Mozzarella Cheese Company is represented as well. But the Buzz was about Zip Code Honey where Susan Pollard the queen bee of all things about honey and bees educates the passers by on bees, and bee keepers and will sell you honey from your own zip code. At Bolsa they sell honey from the zip code of the restaurant. “During harvest in July and August, depending on weather conditions” Susan explains, “you can order honey from your zip code”. She also sells pollen pellets from your zip code that helps your body fight the allergens in your specific area. Now that is thinking locally.
Across the way is local chef Katherine Clapner formerly the pastry chef for Stephen Pyles, now turned entrepreneur 
showcasing her hand made chocolates under the brand ‘Dude, Sweet’. Using only the finest ingredients like raw coconut and almond butter she makes ‘old school’ chocolates that taste “like an almond joy should taste like” she says. Her choices of flavors are unique. ‘Porcini biscotti knuckles’ was one flavor but another interesting chocolate was ‘Zanzibar’ with yellow curry and roasted banana.
Across the outdoor patio between tables of moms, dads and kids was another local vendor Hail Merry giving out samples of grawnola and blond macaroons. 
Susan O’Brien and her son Quinn were manning the booth while her husband and other children enjoyed a meal. Susan, trained as a raw foods chef, makes grawnola from raw nuts, organic fruits and sprouted buckwheat groats and dehydrates the mix to maintain the living enzymes in the ingredients. “All of our products are vegan, organic, gluten free and raw” she explains. One taste and you’re hooked. The macaroons are full of flavor and made with organic coconut and maple syrup. The grawnola is more like a fruit and nut snack than a breakfast cereal. A customer comments on how good the grawnola is and says “it has such a nice flavor balance”. Susan is a local entrepreneur who has been to the Bolsa farmers market a couple of times but also sells her products at Central Market, selected Whole Foods and Roy’s natural market.
Summer is a great time to enjoy outdoor markets. It is nice to see so many local vendors participate. Check out the web sites for more information on local, organic producers.
www.dudesweetchocolates.com
www.hailmerry.com
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