Mission Mission

Every Sunday, the Free Farm Stand sets up shop at Treat Commons and offers a beautiful array of produce to low-income and tight-budgeted folks from the neighborhood. It’s run by Tree, who also writes the Free Farm Stand blog. Over the weekend, the woman on the left had a bright idea:

Fillipa suggested I put up a sign in the neighborhood saying that I am available to pick people’s fruit trees. She knows of two neighbors with fruit trees that don’t get picked. I think I will do that and let people know that the farm stand will take any fruit as well as pick it.

Link. So if your fruit tree is sitting unattended, get in touch with Tree via the blog, or visit the Free Farm Stand at the Treat Commons Community Garden (at 23rd and Treat) every Sunday from 1-3pm.

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Merlin Mann has a lot of good ideas. Any takers? Link.

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Mission Pie’s got some of its rustic charm back, thanks to a two-seater counter that faces out the front window. The stools? Big, iron tractor-driver seats. So you can pretend you’re cruising some kind of old-timey combine up Mission Street as you enjoy your slice of banana cream — for breakfast, of course.

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Our new favorite thing to do at Bender’s: Examine the dozens of funny confiscated (or donated or maybe discarded?) IDs encased in three custom-made tabletops across from the food counter. Some are funny because the pictures are funny. Some are funny because the names are funny. Some are funny because the quality of the forgery is funny. At the very least, you’re sure to at least find one that looks like someone you know.

Our new second favorite thing to do at Bender’s: Eat burgers at the bar’s free Sunday afternoon backyard barbecue.

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Tonight from 6-9pm, Little Tree Gallery is serving free Trumer Pils, in conjunction with some art or something. Further details via funcheapSF here.

Photo by tom ferris.

Asked where to get good Chinese in the Mission, Drew answered:

For good Chinese takeout I go to Hung Yuen on 22nd between Bartlett and Valencia. Their trilingual (Chinese-English-Spanish) menu is very amusing, and the food is quite good. You can even watch Hung Granny making the pot stickers by hand.

Link. I’d like to meet this Hung Granny. I think I’ll go right now.

In May, we broke the story of Dolores Burrito, a Mission-style burrito place in Berlin. Our friend Anna was very excietd to hear the news (“OMG!!!!! oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!!!! how excietd am i???? sooooo excited!!”). She finally went:

Well, it was obviously not going to be like a tacotruck burrito … but, they had Anchor Steam!! (if there’s that then maybe there’s sierra somewhere in berlin, too, and then allan would have won yet another bet). Anyway, it was kind of complicated to order – six different steps, but you could get everything from guac to sour cream. Don’t know why they don’t just have a super-burrito option. They have 5 differnt types of spicyness and the most spicy was spicy (rare for German!). The types of meat you can get are not really authentic but everything tasted good. And it’s a little pricey for Berlin. But overall it’s a really cool place to hang out when you get a certain kind of craving and it does fill you up like a taco-truck burrito.

I can’t wait to try this place out! Note: Malcolm M. swears you can’t get Sierra Nevada in Berlin because of German beer purity law, but Allan suspects otherwise, because how can they not have Sierra Nevada?! It’s fucking good!

So if anyone knows of a place where they do…

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Over at the Free Farm Stand, Tree extends an invitation to one and all to maybe go blackberry picking this weekend:

The black berries on Bernal Hill are ripening and I was thinking of checking them out in more detail and possibly picking them if they are ripe enough on Saturday possibly in the morning. Please contact me if you are interested. I will also harvest plums and loquats in the Secret Garden the same day.

Link. In the same post, Tree also has some interesting things to say about a possible communication breakdown within San Francisco’s urban gardening community. Like why shouldn’t behemoths like Slow Food Nation join with smaller projects like Free Farm Stand or Graze the Roof to form an all-encompassing sustainability superbeast?

Photo by Top-O-Towner.

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Just read that Yum Yum House is closed for good. Never ate there meself, but always liked the signage. Where’s it gonna end up? Anybody else vote for on the wall at Bender’s next to the old Leather Tongue signage?

Photo by Jeremy Brooks.

Update: In the comments, codesmith poses another question…

WTH? First Firecracker and now Yum Yum. Where’s a person to get some half decent Chinese in the neighborhood now?