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I love Ubuntu. After being vegetarian for 20 years, this is one of the superstar vegetarian restaurants to have launched in a long time. Located in Napa, this is an upscale, Zen like environment without a lot of pretense. Food is prepared with the best local ingredients.

This is my favorite salad. Beets with avocado and grapefruit. Recently its recipe was featured in this month’s Sunset Magazine.

Zen like, relaxing atmosphere. Upstairs is a yoga studio.

Above is their signature dish, a rich cauliflower dish in a cast iron pot. Very creative and rich. However it was a little too creamy for my taste.

Although this doesn’t look the prettiest, this fresh farm egg was to die for. Similar to the type of egg yolk described by Michael Pollan’s Omnivore Dilemma, this yolk was a bright orange yellow and very rich.

All in all, this is an excellent find in downtown Napa. Creative vegetarian food, with great service and a relaxing feel. I’m definitely coming again.

Ubuntu is located on 1140 Main Street in downtown Napa.

In the midst of my own wedding planning, I checked out some interesting organic and green wedding ideas in the Bay Area. One place that I really liked was a restaurant called Barndiva in the beautiful town of Healdsburg.

The owner, Lukka Feldman, gave us a nice tour of the city and offered to host an all inclusive wedding with organic, local food and drinks. The restaurant is a beautiful restored barn with an outdoor garden. It is one of the few restaurants featured in Michelin from the Bay Area. Don’t miss this place for drinks at night if you are in Sonoma wine country.

Recently Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed closing 1 out of 5 California state parks due to a looming deficit. Unfortunately, many of these parks are true gems, nine of them in the San Francisco Bay Area including Henry Coe State Park, Tomales Bay State Park and Portola Redwoods. Under his proposal, the cutting of parks would only save 1% of his deficit, but would close 43 state parks.

 Save the California state parks by joining the California State Parks Foundation, the only nonprofit dedicated to protecting California state parks. I decided to sign up today and become part of the the California States Parks Foundation. Please fight the Governor’s proposal to shut down the parks.

Welcome readers. You may have noticed a few changes. I decided to update the design of the page and update the URL to http://www.myorganicday.com. Please update your bookmarks. My new email address is christine@myorganicday.com.

Dear Organic Day readers,

I’ve really enjoyed receiving your many emails and comments. (I also apologize that I have not written back to many of you–I recently got engaged, took a new position as the first product manager at Navigenics, an early stage startup.)

After attending the BlogExpo (one of the largest blogging conferences of the year), I’ve decided to remove all advertising and not accept any form of sponsorship. This insures that none of my content will be influenced by anyway through sponsors to give you the most unbiased information. Of course, everything on this blog will remain free.

All the best,
Christine

A nonprofit called Trees, Water & People, will be planting a tree for every vote that it gets online. From Arbor Day, April 27th, to Memorial Day, for every vote that www.votefortrees.com gets, a tree will be planted. Seems like a good idea!