Just a reminder, the World Wide Vegan Bake Sale is underway...  The dates of the sale are June 20 - 28th.  To see what events are occuring in your area, click here.  And when they say worldwide, they mean worldwide.  There are sales scheduled for Australian, New Zealand, Canada, England,  Greece, and Nigeria!  (As well as the United States.) We've had our heads down a bit, so sorry for the last minute notification. Hopefully you'll be able to attend if there's an event in your neighborhood.

If you live in Los Angeles, there are two events scheduled (there was one yesterday too).

Bake Sale #1
Date: Thursday June 25, 2009
Time: 10am – 2pm
Venue:  Los Angeles City Hall Farmers Market
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
The market is located on the south lawn on First Street between Main and Spring Streets.

Proceeds:  Los Angeles Conservation Corps, and part of the city's Los Angeles River Revitalization

Bake Sale #2
Dates: Sunday June 28, 2009 (There was also a sale here on 6/21)
Time: 11am – ?pm
Venue:  Locali
Address: Hollywood, 5825 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 466-1360

Web Site: Bake Me Up! LA

Proceeds:  Animal Acres, Earthlings, and Little Big Dog Rescue

If you have the time, and can get to one of these events, you should consider heading out and supporting the effort to show the world how sweet it is to be vegan.

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If you live in the Los Angeles area and you're looking for something fun to do this weekend, you may want to consider heading over to Santa Monica on Saturday, May 9th.  The Santa Monica Festival: Revel With A Cause will be held from 11am - 6 pm on 5/9/9 at Clover Park.   Although the festival isn't vegan, they're serving meat, there will be plenty of other eco-friendly activities and attractions.

If you are interested, here is a link to the Revel With A Cause site.  It doesn't look like they're promoting a vegan/vegetarian agenda (why doesn't the green movement get on this bandwagon yet?!?!), so there may be an opportunity for some vegans to start a discussion.  If not, there's always the Los Angeles Vegan Bake Sale (more details coming).

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Here's an interesting opportunity for vegan outreach.  Compassion4Animals is organizing a world-wide vegan bake sale.  From June 20th to June 28th various vegan groups will hold bake sales.  This purpose is to show the general public that vegan baked goods can be just as tasty (or more) as those baked goods prepared with animal products.  Jane loves to bake, and since it's just the two of us at home, I often bring things in to work with me.  At first, if I mentioned they were vegan goodies, people would pass them up.  If I didn't mention it, they would gobble things up and ask for more.  Then I'd say, oh those were vegan muffins, and people would be incredulous.  Now, everyone knows they're vegan goodies, and everyone knows they taste great.

So I think this bake sale can do wonders.  You can find more details at WorldWide Vegan Bake Sale.com.

If you are planning on doing some baking, but aren't sure what to make, we recommend the vegan brownies and vegan banana nut chip muffins from The Joy of Vegan Baking. And apple pie is always an easy sale.   These are the three desserts Jane makes most frequently.

If you can't or don't want to organize an event, but do want to participate, here's where the bakes sales are scheduled.  This page will continue to be updated as more events are scheduled, so keep checking back to find something in your area.  Or get together with your vegan friends and hold a bake sale of your own.  Don't forget to register!

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When we first went vegan it seemed like the Portland/Seattle region was the vegan version of Mecca. It seemed like a pilgrimage was in order. If we'd been around last week, we might have noticed that Seattle is hosting Vegfest this weekend at the Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall. Vegfest is being sponsored by Vegetarians of Washington. The festival runs this weekend and cost is $7 for admission. They'll have food samples from over 200 vendors. Products will be available for sale including food and books. There will also be speakers and cooking demonstrations from celebrities in the veg*n community. Some of the topics they'll be covering:

• Nutrition for a healthy heart
• Distance yourself from diabetes, and
• Cancer prevention

All topics near and dear to my heart!

According to the Vegfest site, the purpose of the festival is:

Many people recognize the health and other benefits of vegetarian food choices, but they are not sure what to eat, what to buy and how to cook it. This festival provides all the support that people need, and it's fun too. With free health screenings, books and lots of food, there's something for everyone. There’s even a special kids section where kids can learn about healthy food while having fun, with clowns, face painting and more.

Jane and I still haven't made it to Oregon or Washington. But we have the Frommer's guide to the Pacific Northwest sitting on my nightstand. One day... Maybe even this year! Or perhaps we'll try to attend next year's Vegfest.

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