I think I've posted this before

Made in the States, Fender Blender make a professional stand alone blender and a portable-chuck-it-on-any-bike setup. Can anyone help me build one without the need to import? I want to run a blender or two on the front of my tricycle food cart situation.

Let's not forget the food cart dream

A well made steel framed Christiana Bike from Denmark with the space for creating your own specific food cart house bike dream. Cost approx 2,650 to buy in Australia. See their website

My adventure to the farmers market

Amazingly I have never been to the farmers market at the Collingwood childrens Farm. It's actually kind of unbelievable if I stop to think about it, but i guess it's not really 'on my way' and I usually don't have extra leisure market time (for some strange reaso?n), and usually I just pop along to Ceres and get my weekly friendly little vegetables. It was a really nice experience to go to the farmers market today though in terms of your weekly veggie shop in can't replace Ceres, what it does have though is extra special fancy farm fresh artisan craft foods. I tasted the softest juiciest oranges I've ever had in my life, bought rock hard beautiful green avocados grown in northen Victoria, sampled delicious dips, olive oils, kiwi fruits and wished that I had a car so I could buy a mushroom growing kit! It was very very exciting to see so many local producers embracing slow food, low food miles and chemical free/conscious/organic/biodynamic farming. Harray for food! And for sunshine!

If I had a food cart...

what would you like to eat from it?

I am thinking that it would be part live growing green garden, part bookshop, part smoothie cart. Here's a little picture I started working on yesterday. The beginning of making a dream real...

Inspiration from Nic

My friend Nic is living in Portland at the moment, and after yesterdays amazing internet discovery of the food cart scene there I sent him a message, this was his reply -

oh yes, you would totally be in love.
Especially this one.... only closed down not too long ago, but I know the guy and his friends who had their invented country (the cart sold the "country's" food). They were actually at the Melbourne Arts Fest a few years ago. Anyhow, the remnants of his cart are currently included in a "Peoples Biennial" curated by Harrell Fletcher. Really awesome.

He does icecream, amazing icecream. Corn on the cob, S.Salmon cream cheese n dill, "Bluegrass" Lemongrass n blueberry, omg, it goes on.
OH, gingersnap cookies n basil..... amazing. 

Mostlandic's, or Mostlandaganders as they are referred to in the South, eat so much ice cream that it can be said that every meal and beverage is made and consumed in that form.  The flavors come and go with the weather at Junior Ambassador's.

You may not find Mostlandia on a map, but that won't prevent you from being there.
Getting there is not a question of Where? But, rather, How?
It is nowhere, and now here.
It is a fanatasical psychogeographical destination happening anyplace, anytime, anyhow.
The cuisine found in Mostlandia is simple, fun and full of love, sometimes presenting subtle exotice undertones.  At it's core, it is comfortable, experimental and healthy. Mostlandian Official Website



Junior Ambassador's Icecream ingredients!!

Food Cart ideas

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Fruit car in Huaraz, Peru

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Kickstand, bicycle powered coffee stall in NY

Food carts!

I came upon this post on veggie food carts in Portland, which lead me here (there's a video complete with gypsy guitars and simulated bicycle travel), then of course the doors opened up and I got very very excited. Move to Portland or start something up here?

"Don’t expect fast-food or deep-fried goofs here. Think Slow Food-Cart Movement, where dedicated cooks grind quinoa into flour, carefully source ingredients, and pay attention to presentation. Twenty minutes for a fried-egg sandwich—are you serious? Then again, it may be the best you’ve ever had."

"A parallel subculture thrives online, where cart zealots track every new opening on websites and Twitter feeds. At its most successful, the cart diaspora creates improvised village plazas where neighbors gather (and spend), generating reams of positive online chatter about a new kind of place—usually a former vacant lot" Portland monthly magazine



Friends lets start designing our food carts!

Ive been thinking about something along these lines for awhile, after meeting a boy in Berlin who had a coffee machine setup in the back of a tricycle. The inspiration of Portland gives me momentum, and broadens the vision to include a whole culture of beautiful slow-food carts.
Everyone that wants to make one, lets do it, the autonomous revolution of food carts in Melbourne (or wherever you are)!

I photographed these images from the Victory Gardens 2007+ book when i
was at MCA last week. This began the re-ignition of the food cart dream