Handmade, fanciful signs quoting Hippocrates and advertising art festivals and tarot-reading classes fill the open space between sprawling plants and burlap sacks in the windows of Wild Tree Café. Crayola-green walls ease you into the cafe, which sprouts an eclectic collection of comfortably worn-in furniture (perfect lounging for the cafe’s free wi-fi) and more handmade signs with calming proverbs scattered on the window ledge around a gold-painted frog Buddha.

Owner Jaqui Boyer has made the space her own since 2006, promoting ideas like community and environmental sustenance by working with local farmers who provide the cafe with fresh produce when in season, and a town in Brazil that grows the cafe's organic, fair-trade coffee. She's also helped develop the "Food from the Heart" program, which gives organic products to low-income women with cancer. The corner café is well-known for its vegan and organic house-made soups ($4.49 for a bowl) and house-made spreads like hummus, freshly made chicken, tuna and egg salad for platters (with veggies and pita bread, $6.77) and sandwiches ($6.77). Standard cafe drinks are offered, as well as fresh juices, milkshakes and smoothies.

Centerstage Reviewer: Kate Puhala