Still grinding through the last tubs of Thanksgiving leftovers? I have two things to take your mind off the slowly desiccating stuffing: first, Historic MtP is having a party tonight, and second, I wanted to remind you to put off as much grocery store shopping as you can ’til Dec 14th.
Historic Mount Pleasant’s annual Holiday Party is tonight, Friday, December 2 at 7pm at 1770 Park Rd. Renew acquaintances along with your membership at a convivial evening in an historic MtP setting. Buffet and cash bar. Members only, but you can renew or obtain a 2012 membership at the door or at HistoricMountPleasant.org for only $35.
Save the date for the Whole Foods 5% Day on Wednesday 12/14. All day, at both the P St and Wisconsin locations, Whole Foods will donate 5% of sales to DC Greens, the awesome far mar and school gardens org that will use the money to fund bonus dollars programs for WIC and SNAP (aka EBT, aka Food Stamps) at Mount Pleasant Farmers’ Market for 2012. If you’ve got pantry items to buy and you can wait a couple weeks, please do! Olive oil, flour, wine, spices, cake decorating stuff, nuts, toothpaste, and more – check out this handy list. I’ll remind you of this one more time and then no more nagging.



Dec 14 – Support DC Greens by shopping at Whole Foods
The non-profit school gardens org DC Greens is taking us under their wing to increase the number of farmers’ markets offering double dollars on food assistance programs like food stamps (aka EBT, aka SNAP), WIC (Women, Infant, Children) and Senior FMNP (Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program). You know we only do that wireless ATM machine thing for the food stamps angle, and you’ve all been very generously supporting the market’s capacity for food stamps with your debit surcharge for wooden tokens. Overcoming the technical obstacles to the use of food assistance programs at farmers’ markets has been the first step, but we’re finding nationwide that the real difference in healthy foods getting to low income families is when double dollars are offered on site.
So they got Whole Foods to offer one of their 5% days at both the P Street and the Wisconsin Ave store. That’s a real coup! And you can support this effort…effortlessly, by doing a little pantry stocking Wednesday, December 14th: any shopping you do at Whole Foods will translate into a substantial donation to DC Greens. Not sure what to buy? Here are some ideas from our handy dandy Pantry List:
If you’re looking for some culinary inspiration, there’s an exciting lineup of local chefs doing in-store cooking demos throughout the day, including John Melfi of Blue Duck Tavern, Peter Smith & Gina Chersevani of PS7 (ask about her cocktails, oh man), and Ris LaCoste of Ris. For a complete listing of chefs and the demo schedule, check out the DC Greens events page.