Founding Shares for Hillsborough! By Christy Raulli, Owner Services The capital campaign for Weaver Street Market's store in Hillsborough has begun! We're hoping to get 500 new owners to invest in the co-op from Hillsborough and the surrounding area, but current owners can help, too. If you are already an owner in the co-op, please consider increasing your investment by purchasing a Founding Share for $100. These shares are fully refundable, just like your current ownership share, and are critical for us to leverage the bank loan. There is no governance power associated with the Founding Shares (i.e. you don't get another vote for the Board of Directors), but you will help to get the good folks of Hillsborough a downtown grocery store. More

Friday Night Wine Tastings Samplings Bread Bakery Open House Animal Adoption Day

Spring Garden Planning IFC Food Drive

Take a Farmer to Dinner Tonight German Beer Dinner

Weekly Produce Specials

Celebrate Mardi Gras New WSM Coffee Blend!

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Founding Shares for Hillsborough continued

If you feel that Weaver Street Market has positively impacted Carrboro or Southern Village, please help us spread our model of community-owned business by investing in your co-op. Encourage your neighbors, friends and co-workers to invest in the co-op, too. A small local investment will have big local impact. You can purchase your Founding Share at the customer service desk in Carrboro, or mail a check in to: Weaver Street Market, Attn: Christy, 101 E Weaver St, Carrboro, NC 27510.

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Weekly Produce Specials
	Organic Pink Lady Apples	3 lb. bags 2/$8.00
	Organic Florida Seedless Red Grapefruit	99¢/lb.	super low price
	Delicious California Minneola Tangelos	99¢/lb.
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Celebrate Mardi Gras

This recipe is from Windy Willer, our Training and Development Manager. Windy has worked at Weaver Street Market for over ten years and grew up in Opelausas, Louisiana. Shrimp á la Creole 2 tbsp olive oil 2 medium onions chopped 1 chopped bell pepper 1 minced jalapeno 1 bunch of chopped parsley (some reserved for garnish) 1/2 cup dry white wine 4 cups chopped canned tomatoes (fire roasted is great) 1 tbsp minced garlic 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1-cup tomato sauce Salt to taste 1/2 tsp crushed dried mint Tabasco 2 pounds raw peeled shrimp In a large high-walled skillet, heat the oil on medium-high heat. Sautee the onions, peppers, and most of the parsley until the onions are clear. Add the rest of the ingredients except the shrimp and heat to a boil. Lower the heat, cover and simmer until the tomatoes fall apart: about an hour. Add the shrimp and continue to simmer, stirring occasionally for 30 minutes. Serve over fluffy cooked white rice and garnish with reserved chopped parsley.

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New WSM Coffee Blend!

House Blend Now Organic and Fair Trade! Over the holiday season the WSM Coffee Bar offered Counter Culture's 1922 Mocha & Java Blend. So many people commented on how much they liked it and we sold so much of it that we decided to make it our new house blend. Tomorrow will be the first official day of our new house blend based on Counter Culture's 1922 Mocha & Java Blend. And, even better, it's Organic and Fair Trade. Hooray! Counter Culture was inspired to go back to a simpler, sweeter time, and pay their respects to the old-fashioned Mocha and Java blend tradition. "Mocha and Java" is the original, historical coffee blend, classically mixing coffees from the Arabian Red Sea port of Al-Mokah and the Dutch colonies of Indonesia known collectively as Java. "Mocha and Java" became kind of a craze in the 19th and 20th centuries, and every coffee roaster worth his salt would offer a version of this classic blend. Counter Culture's interpretation of Mocha and Java was inspired by a 1922 recipe from coffee historian William H. Ukers, which included "Ankolas," an old word for Sumatran coffees, "Fancy Mexicans" and "Mochas." The blend Counter Culture created contains Ethiopia Harrar, Sumatra Aceh, and Mecixo Oaxaca Pluma La Trinidad. Ethiopia Harrar, which Ukers called "the original Longberry Mocha," provides the Mocha component, while the Sumatra Aceh is the best modern equivalent of Ankola there is. The blend is rounded out by Mexico Oaxaca Pluma La Trinidad, which is about the fanciest Mexican coffee they have ever tasted. In working on this coffee, Counter Culture realized the real magic of the Mocha and Java blend. The berry-wine-and-spice notes of the Harrar float above the deep, woodsy notes and luscious body of the Sumatra, while the spiced chocolate of the Mexican brings the flavors together nicely. The blend is Organic and Fair Trade certified, and is a rare opportunity to savor a historic coffee style.

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Friday Night Wine Tastings

Carrboro: 4:30-6:30pm Southern Village: 5:00-7:00pm Every Friday night, Weaver Street Market offers a selection of wines for you to taste in our Carrboro and Southern Village Wine Departments. Knowledgeable wine representatives are on hand to talk about the wine and where it comes from. This is a great opportunity to expand your wine palate, stock your cellar, or buy a gift for that upcoming dinner.

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Samplings!

During the month of March we'll have product to sample at our Southern Village store on Fridays from 4-7 pm and in our Carrboro store on Saturdays from 11-2

Bread Bakery Open House

Come see the WSM bread bakers shape Carrboro's longest baguette! The four-foot baguette has been done—can they beat their own record? Grab your tape measure and come out to our next open bakery to see. Sunday March 12, 6-8 PM in the WSM bread bakery It's free. Stop by anytime. Sample WSM breads and learn about the bread making process. Bring your own dough to bake in our oven. Dough will be available for kids to play with. Door prizes! Schedule of events: 6:00PM Shaping the giant baguettes 6:30PM Hand-mixing lessons (materials provided) 7:30PM Baking the giant baguettes 7:55PM Drawing for door prizes

Animal Awareness & Adoption Day

Sunday, March 12, 2-4 pm on the lawn in Carrboro Weaver Street Market will host several local adoption agencies with dogs and cats looking for their forever homes. Stop by and visit with these wonderful pets. Maybe you'll find a new addition to your family.

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Spring Garden Planning

By Kris Brannan, WSM Contributing Writer Spring is right around the corner and it is time to prepare our beds. Composted materials should be a part of your preparations. Compost can add valuable nutrients to the soil, such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. However, compost is not a replacement for fertilizer. Compost is more of a soil amendment or soil conditioner. If your home compost has been turned and is at least six months old it may be ready to use. If your compost isn't ready then you can buy local composted materials. The Orange County landfill sells Class "A" compost for $25.00 per cubic yard. This composted material is made up of local food waste collected in the County's commercial recycling program combined with other organics such as manure, wood chips, and agricultural waste. In your garden beds, dig up existing soil, removing any twigs, grasses, or weeds (these can be composted for further use) and mix in your mature compost. Mix soil and compost in the top 4-6 inches of soil. Your plants and vegetables will now have a nutritious soil in which to grow.

Interfaith Council Food Drive

Sunday, March 5, 2-5 pm at WSM in Carrboro NC Hillel, a Jewish organization on the UNC Campus, has organized a food drive to fill the cupboards at the Interfaith Council's kitchen as part of a month long project called Project Tikkun which culminates on March 5th with a community wide day of service called "Do the Deed." You can shop from 2-5 pm for the needed items at Weaver Street Market and place those things in a bin at the front of the store. The Inter-Faith Council for Social Justice, is an organization that provides shelter, food, direct services, advocacy and information for people in need. This includes a food pantry and a community kitchen, both of which have a consistent need for the following items: Canned or dry soups Cereal Dry pasta Canned pasta Canned vegetables (corn, beans and peas) Macaroni and cheese Powdered milk (quart size) Rice (one or two pound bags) Canned fruits Canned meats (Spam, beans and wieners, tuna, etc.) Juice of all flavors Personal care products (shampoo, soap, deodorant, etc.)

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Take a Farmer to Dinner Today! Today February 28th, dine at a participating restaurant and 10% of sales will help send a small delegation of our local farmers to Turin, Italy in October 2006, for Slow Food International's Terra Madre. There they will join 5,000 farmers, food artisans and chefs from around the globe to exchange ideas and gain inspiration. Together, with their collective wealth of knowledge and experience, these international food producers will seek solutions to the challenges they face as stewards of land and community. The following restaurants are participating in 'Take a Farmer to Dinner': Panzanella Acme Bin 54 Crooks Corner Crossroads at the Carolina Inn Elaine's Enoteca Vin Four Square Frazier's Il Palio Lantern Magnolia Grill Nana's Nasher Museum Café Pop's Sandwhich Learn more about Slow Food here. Read more about Terra Madre here. German Beer Dinner Monday, March 27th, 7pm at Panzanella If one were to envision the quintessential beer drinking experience, one might invoke the following images: grandiose beer fountains amidst a rustic German hillside, overlooking the Rhine river, with countrymen laughing and singing jovially next to their steins, overrunning with beer. Sadly, I doubt most of us will get to experience such an ambiance in beer euphoria, but we can always try to recreate our own. That said, I bid all who would like to celebrate and learn in the spirit of camaraderie about beer, its preservation and tradition, to join us at the German beer dinner! As it was in Babylonia, the authorities legislatively regulate the quality of German beer, and beer is still an important source of tax revenue. The first regulation appeared in the town of Augsburg, where establishments that served bad beer or dishonest amounts would be fined and their beer destroyed. Imagine, a beer law that would actually be worthwhile! The most famous brewing law in Germany is the Reinheitsgebot, or for us Deutsch-challenged, the "Purity Law". This law was ordered by Duke Wilhem IV of Bavaria in 1516, and states that beer should only be brewed from barley, hops and water. Back then, the effects of yeast in the air were unknown, so the use of yeast eventually became accepted as the fourth and final ingredient allowed to make beer. Since the Reinheitsgebot, after witnessing Bavarian beers rise to top-knotch status, other lands of Germany followed suit in enforcing this regulation and have continued to make it the most important law affecting German beer brewing today. This strict control over ingredients and dedication to tradition in brewing has led to a variety of beer styles in Germany that have been perfected over the centuries. In Germany, different regions specialize in different styles of beer. For instance, Hamburg and northern Germany are known for their dry Pilsners; Berlin specializes in Berliner Weisse (a white beer with a shot of syrup); Dortmund and the Ruhr Valley are famous for their Lagers; Cologne for its light and refreshing Koelsch beers; neighboring Dusseldorf for its stronger and darkers ales; while Bavaria's Helle Lagers (light lagers) and Weizen (wheat) beers are also known all over the world. These are just a few of the delicious beer styles Germany has to offer, so get your place reserved now so that you can savor the nuances of German beer while feasting on some tasty fare! Tickets are $35 and may be purchased at our Carrboro Customer Service Desk or at Panzanella. Seating is limited so reserve early. Visit Panzanella's website to view all menus (lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch).