Wine Sale and Show: The Beet, WSM's E-Newsletter

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Everybody loves a sale!
So, don't miss our 2nd Annual Spring Wine Sale and Shows! Mark your calendars! Our spring wine sale starts March 31 and ends on April 16. This wine sale is chock full of amazing wines and even more amazing prices! Wines featured in our wine sale are at least 10% off, and some are discounted up to 65% off regular prices! Because you've responded with such enthusiasm and made our wine sales huge successes, we've been able to secure some of the best prices and quantities yet. Whatever your budget may be, we have great wines for you!

Friday Night Wine Tastings
Samplings
WCOM to Benefit
Electronic Music Festival Preview

Hillsborough here we come!
Winter Friday in Hillsborough
In the Garden

Artist's Reception
German Beer Dinner

Weekly Produce Specials
Spring Planting

Irish Goodies


Wine Sale and Show continued

Look for great everyday wines from all over the world, and don't miss out on incredible deals on classic wines like Barolo, Red Burgundy, Shiraz, and lots and lots of Bubblies. The best part of it all is you don't have to take any risks at all! Join us at one of our wine shows and taste all 42 wines before you buy them. Wine shows are Saturday April1, 1-5pm at our Carrboro Store, and Saturday April 8, 1-5pm at our Southern Village Store. Tickets to the wines shows are $5.00, a portion of the proceeds benefit WCOM community radio.

Weekly Produce Specials

	Organic Cherry Tomatoes	2 pints/$4.00	super low price
	Organic Yukon Gold Potatoes	75¢ lb.
	Local Asiatic Lillies	2 bunches/$10	save $1.98 on 2
Read more about other Weaver Street Market Specials.

Spring Planting

It is finally time to plant those cool season bedding plants. We have a variety of local bedding plants available at the Carrboro store such as fennel, kale, parsley, and spinach. For those experienced gardeners that like to start from seed, we have seeds available from Seeds of Change that are certified organic. We have herb, vegetable, annual, and perennial seeds such as dill, squash, zinnia, and foxglove. All the planting information you need is located on the back of each pack of seeds. It has planting depth, water, and sun needs, spacing requirements, and soil temperatures. Seeds cost $1.99 per pack and bedding plants start at $1.59 per four pack. These seeds are available at the Carrboro and the Southern Village locations. Remember to amend your soil with organic material such as compost when planting.

Irish Goodies

There are just four days left to pick up all of the great Irish delights we have for you: Irish Oat Scones, Irish Soda Bread, and Irish Short Bread Cookies. The Dubliner and Cahill's Porter Cheeses will hang around till the end of the month. Check out these additioanl specials from the Cheese Department.

Corned Beef This week put a little Irish in your lunch with sliced corned beef from our cheese counter.
on sale - $6.99
regularly $7.99

Irish Cheese!
Farmhouse Cashel Blue is a treat not to be missed. Nice, sharp, salty blue that would be well suited to soda bread, or a pint of Cottonwood's Irish Red Ale also on special. $5.99 per six pack.

Erin go braugh!


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. Wines for Friday March 17: Peg will be tasting Neal Rosenthal wines in our Carrboro store and you can check out the South American wines at our Southern Village store. Yum!
Read about Weaver Street Market events.

Samplings!

Giacomo's Italian Market Salamis Friday, March 17, 4-7 pm at Southern Village Saturday, March 18, 11-2 pm in Carrboro Cackalacky Sauce, Ketchup and Mustard Saturday, March 25, 11-2 pm in Carrboro Friday, March 31, 4-7 pm at Southern Village

WCOM to Benefit

At each wine show, Weaver Street Market donates a portion of the proceeds from the sales of the souvenir wine glasses to a local organization. For this year's Spring Wine Shows a portion of the proceeds will benefit WCOM Community Radio. WCOM is a community radio station with a studio in downtown Carrboro and an antenna at Scroggs Elementary School in Southern Village. WCOM is the first low-power FM community radio station in the area to be set up under a program established by the Federal Communications Commission in 2000. Low-power FM is grassroots radio—an effort to counterbalance the increasing concentration of radio ownership by a few large corporations.
Learn more about WCOM here.

Electronic Music Festival Preview

Sunday, March 19 2-4 pm on the lawn in Carrboro This is your chance to get a taste of Chapel Hill's upcoming Electronic Music Festival to be held in April. Ticktets will be on sale this Sunday on the lawn in Carrboro along with a sampling of the music.

Full Steam Ahead:

Weaver Street Market is officially coming to Hillsborough

Great news, folks! The site changes that will allow Weaver Street Market to open up in the Gateway Center in downtown Hillsborough have been approved. This means that we're really rolling now and need you to join the co-op or, if you're already an owner, buy a Founding Share. The equity from these share investments, coupled with individual loans will leverage the major portion of our building and upfit money from the National Cooperative Bank, so please help out if you can.

What happens next? Well, George Horton, the Gateway Center Developer needs commitments to sell or lease another 1/3 of the building in order to begin construction. Anybody need an office? How 'bout a condo? Great location, and good food downstairs.

In the meantime, the Managers here at the Weave are running wild with tape measures and crowbars (seriously, James just ran outside with a crow bar, your guess is as good as mine.) Architect scales are everywhere. Drafts upon drafts of floor plans pop up on the employees' intranet. And, in all the fervor, there's talk of re-doing the Carrboro and Southern Village stores, too! (Whoever can fix the logjam at the coffee cream/sugar stand in the Carrboro store will be my best friend for life. Or, I'll at least buy them a cup of coffee.)

So, what can you do to help? The single most important thing you can do is invest in the co-op. Buy a share. Buy a founding share. Why not? All shares are fully refundable. Help your neighbors, co-workers and friends see the sense in buying a share. A community grocery needs the community to get it started and the time is now. You can buy a share at the Carrboro store, or mail in a check; pick up a brochure from one of the businesses on Churton St or download a pdf from our website: http://www.weaverstreetmarket.coop/action/hillsborough.php. We'll be setting up a table at the Hillsborough Last Friday Film Series event at the Masonic Lodge on March 31, and hopefully, at the Hillsborough Farmers' Market, too.

Winter Friday Movie

Friday March 31, 8:30 pm
Please come to the final Winter Fridays "Filmmaker's Film Series" featuring work by award-winning filmmaker, Elizabeth Bouiss. The show will be on Friday, March 31st at 8:30 at the King Street Masonic Lodge in downtown Hillsborough accross from the old Colonial Inn. The filmmaker will be present for the screenings. A question and answer session will be followed by a reception with the filmmaker.

The program includes:
NO TIME FOR TEARS - Vietnam, the Women Who Served
Director: Elizabeth Bouiss
Producer: Mitch Wood
Co-producer: Elizabeth Bouiss
This award winning documentary captures the experiences of the American women who served in Vietnam. Quiet for years, this film breaks their silence. A diverse group of women share their intimate experiences of life in a war zone and the changes the go through upon their return home. What emerges is a story of hard work and heartbreak and healing.

SpEak YoUr MinD
Directed, Produced, and edited by Elizabeth Bouiss
"Free speech is the oxygen of democracy!" says a protester outside the Republican National Convention in 2004.

Speak Your Mind explores the First Amendment and dissent since September 11, 2001, presenting an important examination of First Amendment rights and the threat against those rights at the present time. SYM takes the viewer on this journey using interviews of civil rights advocates, activists and every day people brought to life with footage of protests, police actions and original music. On-the-street footage of activists contextualizes and shapes the film. Thoughtful commentary and analysis of the Constitutional scholars sheds light on the consequences of the government's policies and actions as filmed and experienced by ordinary citizens.

Advanced tickets are $5.00, available at Calloway Jewelers in downtown Hillsborough, or on-line www.hillsboroughartscouncil.org. Tickets are also available at the door on the day of the show for $7.00. This program may not be suitable for small children. This event is sponsored by The Hillsborough Arts Council and Weaver Street Market.

In the Garden

Hummingbirds and Feeders
By Kris Brannan, Landscape Artist

As spring arrives it is a good time to prepare for hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are amazing birds to watch especially as they hover next to a feeder. Hummingbirds rely on us to supply them with a quick burst of energy by providing sugar water in the feeders. This artificial nectar should be made using one part ordinary cane sugar to four parts well or tap water. There is no need to boil the water or to use bottled water. Store unused nectar in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Having a hummingbird feeder requires a commitment to keeping it sanitary. Before every filling flush the feeder with hot tap water and clean with a bottlebrush. Do not use soap; the hummingbirds don't like the taste. However you can and should use bleach to clean the feeder and to remove black mold. Black mold will kill hummingbirds. Throw out any unconsumed sugar water if the birds aren't emptying the feeder between fillings. If the nectar is cloudy then it has spoiled. When temperatures are 80 degrees or higher you should refill and clean the feeder every 3 to 4 days. When temperatures are over 90 degrees the nectar might spoil in 2 days.

Weaver Street Market carries Hummingbird feeders that are made from hand blown glass and songbird feeders, also made from hand blown glass. We also carry local blended wild mix birdseed and other seeds and products for every bird lovers needs. Next week we'll look at how to make your garden or landscape hummingbird friendly.

Artist's Reception

Ray Tolan's Assemblages

IMAGES: PAST & PRESENT
February 13 - April 16

Don't look now, but the broken sewing machine spindles you placed in a recycling box on the sidewalk last year have been reincarnated in one of Ray Tolan's found art and metal sculpture assemblages. This self-described sidewalk archeologist enjoys the collecting as much as the construction and the finished work. His whimsical pieces, combining the most unlikely of materials and textures, elicit respect for their quality, but also a chuckle for the artist's audacity.

RECEPTION:

Monday, March 20, 2006
5:30 - 7:30 pm

Visit Panzanella's website to view all menus (lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch).

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.