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It’s about time that the green guru commends restaurants in town that are doing it right and doing it green. By supporting these locals we all benefit and even thrive as an ever more sustainable community.

•    The Whatever Café is a must for an organic breakfast and coffee. Don will fix you up with veggie fed eggs, bacon and sausage, an organic omelet made to order, gingerbread pancakes and more. And it’s charming to see all the personal coffee mugs stored on the shelf ready for their owners each morning. Thank you Whatever Café for serving Wimberley healthy food and bringing us the small town hangout we all crave!

•    Welcome The Leaning Pear, boy did we need this place! They serve local cheeses, local organic greens and a BBLT (bacon, brie, lettuce and tomato sandwich) that is to die for! You can’t miss the rainwater tank out front for their garden and other landscaping.

•    Linda’s Fine Food is going green, they have a garden as well, they compost their food scraps for it, and they encourage you to bring your own to go containers.

 
•    Now, Clifford’s Wine Bar is what the green guru calls a dark green on the green scale. Not only are they planning their seasonal menu to be 100% organic and local by this June, they are already halfway there! They use homemade bread, veggies and greens from our local organic Montesino Farms, one organic wine all the time, local Texas wines and Ruta Maya organic fair trade coffee. They have also started a vegetable garden in back, you can’t get more local than that!
In order to be truly green, a place of business needs to think of all the impacts it creates by being in business, not just its menu and Clifford’s has done this. They have minimized packaging by sending leftovers home on their plates to be returned, having individual cloth hand towels in the bathroom, and using green cleaning products. Thank you, Lisa, and all at Clifford’s for being here. To all the locals above: your green-ness is GREATNESS!

Quote of the Month: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing one obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller