twitter is kind of awesome.

So. Twitter. We must confess, we kind of hated you for a period of time, in the same way we kind of hated the cool chicks in middle school. You were all up in everyone's business, gossiping about everyone's dinners, the interiors of their refrigerators, whether farms were REALLY organic or just low-spray, and how the cheese cart at Troquet is "so totally not the best in Boston." We felt out of the loop (and kind of chubby). And what was the story with all those pound signs flying around? #nickcarter? #noonprop8? #munchkins? Who accidentally hits the # sign that often? We were confused and generally bothered.

But recently, we've been making a few more friends on this here Twitter. We get the whole hash mark thing now (#eureka!), and we're feeling a little better about ourselves. We heard from the Green Mountain Farm to School project, a Vermont-based group that brings local, healthy produce and educational programs to fifteen schools in the Northeast Kingdom. Not only are their kids benefitting from "eating the rainbow" and learning about the farms supplying their lunches, they're little budding foodie poets: "Crunchy like a bunny eats, crunchy like a horse eats, crunchy like we eat, crunchy is so yummy!" Love.

We also heard from Amy Cotler, whose new book, The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, looks like it's pretty much the awesomest. (We know it's not a word. We don't care.) We're excited to read a copy and let all of you Greenologist folks know how you might use it as a tool for living small.

And then there was this from @eatboston. All we'll say is that we always thought it would be great if food and fashion (our two favorite things) could be combined some way, somehow. It would be creative! It would be edible! It would be a nexus of delicious fierceness! Now? Maybe not so much.

Yup. It's official. We love Twitter. We love the kids in Vermont, we love finding new books, and even though it grosses us out a little, we kind of love meat hats. Goodbye, Luddites. Hello, @newluddite.