Pittsburgh's Hidden Treasures

While we are here...if you know of any hidden gems that will make a graduate student's life richer, please add them here.

Treasure 1. REI, on the Southside, has a climbing wall, once you pay to be a member, you can climb it for free...probably not for the advanced climber... but still... http://www.rei.com/stores/pittsburgh/index.html

Treasure 2. CSAs. Community Supported Agriculture for supporting local small farms. Organic food in a crate delivered to somewhere probably close to you. (we walk two blocks to get our crate on someone's porch.) We use Kretschmann Farms, because they volunteered to help out two of our friends with free memberships when our friends hit hard times... when a small farm business does that, it says something about the owners. http://www.kretschmannfarm.com/

Treasure 3. Freecycle... while one of the main purposes is to keep junk...i mean treasures out of our landfill... if you are a poor graduate student and need a toaster... this is where to post it (along with craigslist). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pittsburgh_freecycle/
http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/