today is the first day of the east lake farmers market, which runs on saturdays from 9am to 1pm. it’s open through october and can be found at the corner of 2nd avenue and hosea williams drive in the east lake/kirkwood area. the market features lots of local farmers selling fruit, vegetables, eggs, salsas and all sorts of other stuff.

to kick off the season, today is the third annual collard greens cook-off! you can sample great collards from both top local chefs and amateur neighborhood cooks.

see you there!

– ryan & gub

east lake farmers market

2nd avenue and hosea williams drive
atlanta, ga 30317

saturdays
9am – 1pm
april – october

today is the one day without shoes campaign from TOMS shoes. the goal is to “spread awareness of the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child’s life by taking off our own.” to show your support, take off your shoes for the day, or if work won’t allow (like me), just wear your TOMS!

read more about the TOMS movement here.

– ryan

happy easter! clementine had a blast playing with her first easter basket of goodies. afterwards we dyed some eggs, although they weren’t nearly as crafty as our stenciled eggs a couple of years ago.

– ryan & gub

happy st patrick’s day! clementine spent some nice outside time in the grass!

ryan & gub

happy leap day! to celebrate, mint gallery is hosting a leap year in the new year fundraising dinner. proceeds benefit their leap year mentorship program, which helps support emerging artists. don’t miss out!

what will you be doing with your bonus day?

– ryan & gub

clementine turned nine months old and to celebrate she got her set of first wheels! well, more so she is finally big enough to enjoy her great hand-me-down car. clementine has also officially been out of the womb longer than she was in there!

ryan & gub

my brother and i went on a great scoutmob tour of the batdorf & bronson roastery. i learned quite a bit about brewing & roasting coffee, its history, and by the end of the tour i could actually taste the difference between a sumatra and a costa rican cup of coffee. talk about a fun tour!

i’m a big fan of dancing goats, which is batdorf & bronson’s coffee shop in decatur, so i enjoyed getting a behind-the-scenes look at atlanta’s best roaster. it was definitely a smaller production than i pictured. they only have three people who do the roasting and they still bag and label all of their coffee by hand.

the tour also included a mug, freshly roasted coffee, and a slice of mocha pie from the pie shop. the pie was made with cacao atlanta chocolate & batdorf coffee and was pretty much the best thing ever!

a cool side note, batdorf takes donations for their used burlap coffee bags. the money goes directly to the coffee farmers and the bags, which have great designs, can be re-used for all sorts of fun projects. it’s a win-win for everyone involved! i picked up an el indio bag, see the photo below.

– ryan

dancing goats coffee bar

419 west ponce de leon ave
decatur, ga 30030
404-687-1100

as of today, clementine is an official crawler!

ryan & gub

artwork by: esther bee chapman

we had quite the southern new year’s day! we cooked some greens and black eyed peas, grabbed takeout from fox bros. bar-b-q, including their amazing fried ribs, and managed to stay in our pj’s all day. what a treat!

it was probably our best fox bros. experience to date. we aren’t the biggest fans of texas bbq, but you can’t go wrong with their pulled pork, ribs or various tasty side dishes, like the frito-pie! their mac n’ cheese has nothing on community q bbq’s though, theirs is a must try in atlanta.

here is the fox bros. menu.

– ryan, gub & clementine

fox bros. bar-b-q

1238 dekalb ave
atlanta, ga 30307
404-577-4030