Piedmont Farm Tour!: The Beet, Weaver Street's E-Newsletter

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Everyone loves a sale!
Weaver Street Market's 3rd Annual Spring Wine Sale is better than ever! Our spring wine sale is just around the corner, and we've secured awesome prices on some great wines. We've got the best deal ever on rock solid Cabernet, Malbec, and Chardonnay from Argentina and a vast array of wines from around the world for prices you won't believe. A unique aspect to this year's sale is that we've gone to the source for some great deals. We've purchased a whole container of delicious wines from Argentina—that means a whopping 900 cases! We've bought direct from wineries in France for some wonderful reds and we've worked harder this year to bring you some of your favorites wines at prices you can be really happy about. and more!

3rd Annual Spring
Wine Sale & Shows
Jazz & More Brunch

CCF Benefits from Wine Show
Bread Science Book Reading
Hillsborough Film Series
Gobal Changes: Local Solutions

Farm Tour Buttons on Sale
Coon Rock Farm
Compost Bin Sale

April Wine Dinner
New Art

Weekly Produce Specials
Weekly Meat Specials

Easter Egg Dye




Everyone loves a sale! continued
There are 40 wines on sale and they are all at least 16% off and some are marked down up to 44% off! Prices start as low as $3.99 and all of our featured wines have been hand-picked, tasted, tested and bargained for by yours truly, Peg Todlosky. We've got wines for the traditionalist and wines for people with more eclectic tastes. The best part is you don't have to take risks at all! Join us at one of our wine shows and taste all 40 wines on sale before you buy them! Wine shows are Saturday, March 31, 1-5pm at our Carrboro store and Saturday, April 7, 1-5pm at our Southern Village store, Tickets to the wines shows are $5.00 a person and the proceeds benefit the Cooperative Community Fund.

Weekly Produce Specials


	Organic Washington Extra Fancy Gala Apples	3 lb bag $3.99 each	super low price
	Organic Imported Bartlett Pears	$1.49 lb	save 50¢/lb
	Organic Cherry Tomatoes	2 pints $4.00

Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials

	Meyer's All Natural Top Sirloin Steak	$6.99 lb	save $2.00/lb!
	Niman Ranch All Natural Pork Boneless Country Style Ribs	$3.99 lb	save $1.00/lb!
	Farm Raised Tilapia Fillet	$6.99 lb.	save $2.00/lb!
Read more about other Weaver Street Market Specials.


Easter Egg Dye

Make dyes for Easter eggs from materials in your kitchen. Dyeing eggs can be a fun way to celebrate the springtime and an interesting project for adults and kids. Use the following ingredients to make all natural dyes for eggs. Red cabbage leaves produce a robin's egg blue color Orange peels create a tender yellow Carrot tops yield a smoky yellow green Yellow Delicious Apple peelings dye eggs pale lavender flecked with soft rust Brown (not white) onion peels dye orange Fresh spinach gives you a pinkish color with gray-green buffs. To dye eggs, place in a pan and cover with water. Add 1 teaspoon of vinegar and dye material. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer gently for 20 minutes. The color will deepen or change if the eggs are left in the dye solution overnight. DO NOT eat the eggs if you leave them out of the refrigerator overnight!



3rd Annual Spring Wine Sale & Shows

Weaver Street Market's 3rd Annual Spring Wine Sale March 30-April 15 This sale will feature a selection of favorite and fine wines from around the world at discounts up to 44% off regular price! 10% regular case discount applies on top of sale price! This is a "no risk" wine sale - you can taste all these wines at the Wine Shows. Wine Sale Hours Weaver Street Market: Carrboro, 7:30 am - 9 pm M-F, 8 am - 9 pm Sat/Sun, 929-0010 Weaver Street Market: Southern Village, 7 am - 9 pm Daily, 929-2009 Wine Sale Shows: Saturday, March 31, 1 - 5 pm on the lawn in Carrboro Saturday, April 7, 1 - 5 pm at Southern Village Saludos Compay will provide lively, entertaining music while you sip 40 fine wines from around the world. Tickets are $5 and are available the day of the show. All of the proceeds benefit WSM's Cooperative Community Fund. Enjoy...music, hors d'oeuvres, and your favorite wines at great values!

Jazz & More! Brunch Returns

Sunday, April 8 11 am - 1 pm It's almost time for Sunday morning Jazz & More Brunch at Weaver Street Market! Get ready for hot food, cool tunes and a great way to start your Sunday. Inside, we'll have fresh scones, muffins and sweet pastries in our bake case; fresh hot coffee and a barista to make that special coffee drink; and an array of eggs, grits, pancakes or French Toast to fill you up! Outside under the oaks you'll hear a range of local bands playing Jazz, Americana, Blues, and Bluegrass; keeping everybody happy and dancing.
Read about other Weaver Street Market events here.



CCF Benefits from Wine Show

Proceeds from Weaver Street Market's 3rd Annual Spring Wine Show will benefit the Cooperative Community Fund. The CCF has been established as a permanent fund whose interest will be given annually to local groups working on issues relating to sustainable agriculture and organic food, hunger and malnutrition issues, environmental protection, and cooperatives. We expect that the CCF will grow rapidly to become a major factor in the achievement of our co-op's mission to be a vibrant, sustainable commercial center. Last August, Weaver Street Market put out a call for applicants for our first grant cycle from the Cooperative Community Fund. We had over a dozen qualified applicants, and an intrepid committee to choose the final recipients: Anathoth Community Garden, Orange Community Housing and Land Trust, and Pa'lante. With your help, we know we'll be able to have an even greater impact for good on our community this year. Attend either Wine Show and a portion of your ticket price will help us help our community.


Bread Science Book Reading

Come learn about the science of bread! Wednesday, April 4, 7 PM Internationalist Books Weaver Street Market's bread baker Emily Buehler will be discussing her book, Bread Science: the Chemistry and Craft of Making Bread, next week at Internationalist Books. The talk will cover both the science occurring in the dough and how it affects the resulting bread. Topics include fermentation reactions and flavor molecules, yeast and sourdough bacteria, and modifying your oven to make better bread. The talk is scheduled for Wednesday, April 4, at 7PM. Internationalist Books and Community Center is located at 405 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, 919-942-1740.

Hillsborough Film Series

Friday, March 30th 7:00 pm at the Hillsborough Masonic Lodge (142 West King Street) "STUDENT MEDIA ARTS SCREENING AND EXPO" This screening is part of Hillsborough's "Winter Fridays" and is co-sponsored by the Hillsborough Arts Council, Weaver Street Market, and Sports Endeavors. Tickets are $5.00 at the door; children under 12 are free. This program is appropriate for all ages. There will be information available for local youth media arts programs and a reception with the filmmakers following the screening. For further information or questions, contact andreadegette@earthlink.net. Program: THE NAME ON THE LEASE, by Cary Youth Video Project, 26 mins., 2006 The Name on the Lease is a documentary produced by young teen-agers from the Cary Youth Video Project in the summer of 2006. It sheds light on the issue of homelessness in the Triangle and the experiences of formerly homeless men and women working on goals for a better life. FINDING THE BALANCE, MovieMakers, 20 mins. Free Will and Destiny face off in this touching comedy about a teenage girl, Julie, struggling to find her way. Movie Makers is an organization dedicated to helping children create art through digital film. Kids, ages 6-19, come together to become the writers, actors, directors, cinematographers, and crew to create their very own digital movies. BEST OF SUMMER 2006, The People's Channel, 10 mins. The Peoples Channel is Chapel Hill and Orange County's non-profit community media center and public access television station. The Peoples Channel has been working with local youth since its conception, and this is our 2nd Annual Summer Media Camp. CHRONICLES OF THE ARCTIC, Saturday School of the Arts, 5 mins., 2007 The story of a hungry arctic wolf, his polar bear sidekick, and the unlikely trio (an arctic hare, penguin, and tern) that thwart his desire for "foooooood"! See what the wolf-cam3000 can do to bring science closer to the secret lives of arctic animals. This world premiere by 2nd and 3rd graders as their "magnum opus" from their media literacy curriculum for Saturday School of Media Arts.

Global Challenges: Local Solutions

Screening of "After the Peak" April 5, 2007 Century Center in Carrboro 7 pm to 9 pm We know that cheap imported energy won't last forever. But it's a problem that seems overwhelming in its scale and impact. This evening will focus totally on how our energy future might impact Orange County and some of the local solutions available to us. We can act now and we can make the end of cheap oil a much easier transition, if we reflect on the consequences of doing nothing and take hold of our options for the future. "After the Peak" is a docudrama made in Orange County by Filmmaker Jim McQuaid. It uses the form of a local cable TV evening news show to portray how an abrupt end to cheap oil might affect ordinary people, communters, farmers, households, the police, our schools and even sports.

Farm Tour Buttons on Sale!

12th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour
April 21 & 22
Gather your friends, fill up a car, and visit your local family farms on the Piedmont Farm Tour!
$30 per car for all 34 farms—each car receives a SUPPORT LOCAL FARMS button, or $10 per car per farm.
Advance Button Sales for $25 & Maps available at:
CARRBORO: Weaver Street Market
Fifth Season Gardening
Maple View Ice Cream Store
CHAPEL HILL: Weaver Street Market
(Southern Village location)
Niche Gardens
DURHAM: Durham Co-op Grocery
SEEDS Booth: Durham Farmers' Market
RALEIGH: Harmony Farms
Triangle Nutrition
Moore Square Farmers' Market
PITTSBORO: General Store Café
Chatham Marketplace
Fearrington Farmers' Market
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
HILLSBOROUGH: Maple View Ice Cream Store
Hillsborough Farmers' Market
GREENSBORO: Deep Roots Market
GRAHAM: Benjamin Vineyards & Winery

Coon Rock Farm

New to the Piedmont Farm Tour this year, Coon Rock Farm in Hillsborough is still under development but owner Richard Holcomb is no stranger to farming. Richard grew up on a hog farm and as a youth worked on a tobacco farm. Three years ago he bought Coon Rock Farm with the intention of creating a sustainable farm by using, making or growing as much as he possibly could on the farm. He has a portable sawmill that creates lumber from his trees for some of his buildings, horses and chickens provide fertilizer, five beehives pollinate the fields, goats trample and clear, and the vegetables and meat produced by the farm supply not only Richard's own restaurant, Zely & Ritz, but other local restaurants as well. He also sells directly off the farm and at the Raleigh Moore Square Farmers' Market.

Richard grows his vegetables, sheep, goats, and Heritage Breed chickens as organically as possible. Helping him with all this work and teaching him too, is Wimbai, an exchange student from Zimbabwe.

Coon Rock Farm got its name from a large granite rock on the Eno River where many a Hillsborough resident spent time swimming and picnicking. When you visit them on the Piedmont Farm Tour, you'll be able to walk down the river and enjoy the Coon rock too!

Compost Bin Sale

In case you haven't seen the round, black plastic composting bins in front of Weaver Street Market reminding you of the County's Annual Compost Bin Sale, mark your calendar for Saturday, April 7 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Eubanks Road Park and Ride Lot. Bins are $39, about half the retail price. They will fit in the trunk of your car and some assembly is required when you get them home. (Even I could do it successfully!) If you're a composting novice, experts will be at the sale to help you get started. If you're a composting fanatic already, perhaps you need a second bin, or a third! Or you want to give someone an early Christmas present or a unique birthday gift. This is truly a gift that keeps on giving.

If you want your compost ready-made to amend right into that waiting soil, or need some mulch to spread around your newly planted bushes, you can find those at the Orange County Landfill Mondays through Fridays, 8:00am to 4:00 pm and Saturdays 7:30 am to noon. The landfill sells a three cubic yard scoop of high-quality aged mulch made from local yard waste for $18. A cubic yard of Class A, unrestricted compost, made in part with locally collected food waste, is $25. Here are two more great opportunities to buy locally grown and produced products rather than cypress mulch, pine bark nuggets or pasteurized cow manure from a big retail chain. (Note: You must tarp your load when leaving the landfill.)


April Wine Dinner

Wines of the Loire Valley Monday, April 23 7 - 9:30 pm Join us for a wine tasting tour of France's Loire Valley. The Loire is a wine region that flanks France's most famous river and produces wines known for their delicate, subtle style such as: sweet wines from Vouvray, delicious and elegant reds from Chinon and Champigny, and the numerous refined whites and sparkling wines from places like Touraine and Saumur. The names alone conjure up images of rolling hills, views of the vast Loire River, and renaissance-era castles, spires and villages. The grapes produced in this region are Melon de Bourgogne, Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir and a few other more obscure varieties. These wines are incredibly good food wines with their ample acidity and expressive fruit flavors. Join us for this tasting tour and find out what this vast, wine producing area has to offer. The cost of this event is $40 per person; space is limited, so reserve early. Please pay in advance and pick up a ticket for this tasting at either Panzanella or the customer service desk at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro.
Visit Panzanella's website to view all menus (lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch).
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New Art

Acrylic Paintings and Collages by Richard Kinnaird Now through May 21, 2007 Richard Kinnaird was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1931. He studied at the University of Michigan, Carleton College, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. After a two-year stint in the Air Force, and a corporate job in Texas, he went back to school to obtain an MFA in Painting and Graphics from the University of Illinois. Richard began his teaching career at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama in 1960. In 1964 he joined the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he inspired students until he retired from teaching in 2004. Richard Kinnaird is represented in the permanent collections of Seattle Museum of Fine Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dillard Drawing Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Aldrich Museum, and many private collections.