apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time


Posts tagged “community”

Weekend Meditation: Things that Never Get Done

It's one thing to cook in your kitchen and it's another thing to do all those little maintenance tasks that pile up and never seem to go away. Top of my list right now: Replace the liners in the cupb...

Taking It to the Streets
Community Cooking Events in San Francisco

Home cooking is often a somewhat isolated event. We usually cook for ourselves, our family and a handful of friends or colleagues. On occasion, a stranger appears in the mix, but usually they've bee...

Learn How to Can and Make New Friends!
San Francisco Bay Area

Interesting. What our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers often saw as drudgery and a whole lot of messy work is now becoming an incredibly popular trend among this generation's new homesteaders. It...

Stage an Eat-In!

What's an Eat-In? It's when a group of people gather together in a very public place to share food that they have prepared together. The purpose is to bring awareness to the need to create safe, cle...

Weekend Meditation: Trading Chickens for Shoes

I was chatting with a young barista in a newly opened coffee shop in San Francisco’s Mission District last week. She was lamenting the lack of community and connection in her life. In her opinion,...

18 Reasons: Creating Community Through Food and Art in San Francisco

18 Reasons is a new gallery/community space in San Francisco's Mission district, located in a storefront kitty-corner from the famous Tartine Bakery and just around the corner from the equally popular...

Weekend Meditation: Coming Together

Due to some slightly unusual circumstances, I’m eating alone a little more than normal these days. This is fine, as long as it doesn’t happen too frequently. While I enjoy the occasional quiet e...