Off to Market

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Street Peep Mallory

Remember Wednesday, when it was bitterly cold and windy windy windy? Mallory walked in the store WITHOUT a coat, scarf, gloves, or anything but the outfit on her back (all from WF BTW). It could be one of two things: we're all evolving into warm-blooded Eskimos or sometimes covering up what looks so good just seems bad.

Minnetonka Memories

On Saturday Anna was a Wild Flower girl top to bottom in her Kensie Girl cardigan, Rise Up tee, Blank jeans, and 3-fringe whiskey colored Minnetonkas! So what about these moccasins? They've been ever present at Wild Flower for the past five seasons (translate 2.5 years) and we see no signs of them moving to the "donate" bin.

Not forgetting their heritage (Native American myth says we need to thank the medicine man), the moc has been a modern look for every generation since the late 1940s, when Minnetonka opened its doors. The 50s housewife wore them with her peddle pushers. When the hippies adopted them they became a bohemian classic. School girls wore the Thunderbird in the 70s and 80s. We've heard so many moccasin memories; and we're peddling to create more.

So trade in your Uggs, give away your Converse, rethink your cowboy boots, and come over to the other side. It's looking like a little bit of fringe never gets old.

Into The Woods

So remember our book recommendation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle? It led to some research about local farms and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Our best find so far is Sanders Ridge (organic farm, winery and restaurant extraordinaire).

Their CSA membership promises an 8 to 10 lbs basket of fresh locally grown vegetables and herbs, every week for 21 weeks, delivered for pick up right to our neighbor's front door (Whole Foods). Signing up sounded so enticing (remember veggies have been the hot topic at Wild Flower during this insanely cold winter), we had to drive to Boonville and investigate.

Having lunch at The Big Woods restaurant was a grand foyer into local and organic "eating out". Along with all of the building's lumber and stone, a lot of our meal was locally harvested from their farm. Chef Starr Johnson strives to use ingredients that are sustainably raised either at Sanders Ridge, or on other farms that are located within a 75 mile radius of Boonville.

While we haven't yet decided about joining the CSA, we'll definitely be showing up to The Big Woods on Thursday nights this spring; they push the tables together and serve a "family style" fixed menu that includes live blue grass music. With North Carolina food, tunes, and wine all flowing, going out will feel perfectly homegrown.

Sign on the Door

Look Out Harris Teeter

A lot of customers ask us, "Where would I wear this ('this' being any cute, comfortable, and put together outfit, not a sparkly cocktail dress)?", and we usually answer, "why not when you go grocery shopping?" and we're absolutely serious. So you can't blame us for wanting to write an approving Letter to the Editor when we saw Gwen wearing this outfit, including the very same Harajuku Lover's pants that we have in the store, next to this headline in Glamour magazine. Sometimes validation is so rock'in:)

Street Peep Olivia

We think Olivia's next song needs to be about a girl in a sunshine yellow dress on a rainy winter night. We love that she chose this bright little French Connection number to wear to the Forsyth Country Day winter formal. And we love even more that she's a singer/songwriter. We loaded her homegrown video "That Song Is Love" into our video playlist or you can check her out on You Tube.