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Everyone loves a sale! Weaver Street Market's 5th Annual Spring Wine Sale is better than ever! We're extremely excited about this wine sale. This will be Weaver Street Market's 5th spring wine sale, and because you have made our past sales so successful we were able to secure some of the best deals we've seen. Some of the highlights of this sale are; another great deal on North Carolina wine, our first sulfite-free sale wine, a good selection of either sustainably farmed, organic or biodynamic wines, and prices ranging from $3.99 to $15.99 and deals at up to 44% off! Over 3/4 of this spring's selections are 25% off or more, and 2/3 of the sale wines are ten dollars and under. So, if its real value for your buck you're after - this is the wine sale for you! More |
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| Disply Ad Space Carrboro Farmers' Market Scrapel Hill Art Market Street Books New Co-op! |
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| Weekly Produce Specials Weekly Meat Specials Product Tastings |
European Butter Every Day Low Price J&B Herb and Plant Farms |
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 There's something for everyone from fresh lively bubblies (great for Mother's day and Graduation), crisp European whites (summer's coming!), traditional Cabernets and Pinot Noirs, big hearty reds and a good helping of fantastic values in South American wines. You'll find great selections that have been hand-picked, tasted, tested and bargained for by yours truly. 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 of our Sale wines before you buy them! Wine shows are Saturday April 4, 1-5pm at our Hillsborough store, Saturday, April 11, 1-5pm at our Southern Village store, and Saturday April 18, 1-5pm at our Carrboro store. The Sale runs from April 3 through April 22, so you'll have plenty of time to browse, taste and stock up on this spring's great selection. Tickets to the wines shows are $5.00 a person and a portion of the proceeds benefits WSM's Cooperative Community Fund. |
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| Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, March 24 through Monday, March 30. |
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| Seedless White Grapes |
$1.69 lb |
super low price product of Chile |
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| Sweet/tart Minneola Tangelos | $1.19 lb |
product of California |
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| Organic Bartlett Pears | $1.49 lb |
product of Chile and Argentina |
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| Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials | |||
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Murray's Whole Chickens |
$2.49 lb |
All Natural save 50¢ lb. |
Fillet Mignon | $14.99 lb |
All Natural super low price |
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| Locally produced Lump Crab Cakes | $3.33 each |
save 66¢ each Luther Lewis & Son, Davis, NC |
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| View the March CAP Flyer here. | |||
| Product Tastings | |
 Get in the March Madness mood with chips and dips! We'll dish up some real onion and black bean dip with Kettle Chips or Garden of Eatin' Chips.
Friday, March 27, 4:00-6:30 pm in Southern Village Onion and black bean dip with Kettle Chips or Garden of Eatin' Chips. Saturday, March 28, 11:00-1:30 pm in Hillsborough Onion and black bean dip with Kettle Chips or Garden of Eatin' Chips. Saturday, March 28, 3:30-6:00 pm in Carrboro Karen from Counter Culture and Chantal from Carolina Brewery have teamed up to make Jumpin' Bean Stout, and they're going to do a double demo of the beer and the coffee that goes in it. Jumpin' Bean Stout is $8.99 each for a limited time only (plus $4.00 bottle deposit.) |
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| On Sale - European Butter | |
 What's the difference between European butter and other butters?European butter has a higher butterfat content giving it a yummy, rich flavor. Great for baking! On Sale - $2.49 lb block, regularly $3.29. |
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 To help you with your budget, Weaver Street Market has added many items to a selection of Every Day Low Price values.To see the list of these items, please click here. Look for these items throughout the store. Local and delicious! Maple View Farms Milk Products are Every Day Low Prices at Weaver Street Market. |
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| J&B Herb and Plant Farms | |
 Locally Grown Potted Herbs!by Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer There's nothing like stepping outside to pick your own oregano and thyme. And with the warm spring weather upon us, it's time to get out in the garden and plant, so why not plant some herbs? Even better, why not plant some herbs that come in environmentally friendly, compostable containers? Locally grown at J&B Herb and Plant Farms in Roxboro, NC, the four-inch potted herbs sold at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro and Hillsborough are in pots made from 100% organic rice hulls. To extract the plant from the pot, give the pot a whack with your trowel. If the pot breaks, it's okay: break the pieces up and scatter them onto your compost pile! Four-inch potted herbs are on sale for $3.99 each! Choose from French lavender, English thyme, catnip, garlic chives, peppermint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint, marjoram, sage, curry, golden oregano, Italian oregano, and Greek mountain oregano. |
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| 5th Annual Spring Wine Sale & Shows | |||
 Please join us for our 5th Annual Spring Wine Sale & Shows, three consecutive weekends of tasting some of the best deals in wine. Featuring nearly 40 wines at heavily discounted prices, taste all you like for only $5, and take home a commemorative wine glass to celebrate the occasion. A 10% additional case discount applies on top of all regular discounts. Live music by Saludos Compay and Different Drum.Wine Sale! - April 3 - April 22. Weaver Street Market's Spring Wine Shows will be Saturday, April 4 in Hillsborough, 1-5 pm Saturday, April 11 in Southern Village, 1-5 pm Saturday, April 18 in Carrboro, 1-5 pm |
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| 14th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour | |||
 Saturday, April 25Sunday April 26 1:00 - 6:00 pm Re-connect with the land and the Farmers who grow and produce your food on the nation's largest farm tour. From adorable lambs, pigs, ducks and bunnies to cutting edge organic and sustainable vegetable growing techniques, the 14th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour has something for everyone. Drawing over 3,000 families per year, this self-directed tour event is the largest sustainable farm tour in the United States. Cost: $25/car in advance for all the farms. $30/car the day of the tour. This year's tour has forty farms - more choices than ever before. It will feature old favorites like Celebrity Dairy, Chapel Hill Creamery, Maple View Farm, Pine Knot Farm and Peregrine Farm as well as eight new farms and projects. Maps and Buttons will be available for purchase at all three Weaver Street Market locations, April 3. This tour is sponsored by Weaver Street Market and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. All proceeds from the tour benefit the CFSA. |
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 Hillsborough store Acoustic Open-MicEvery Thursday 6:30-8:30 Our esteemed guests in the Lounge for the next few weeks: March 26th: Mark Cool - Launching his new album "Pie" played in its entirety April 2: John Saylor - The Cave's open-mic host visiting the Lounge for the first time April 9 Bill Whitmore and Friends - Chapel Hill real estate agent by day, guitar slinging aesthete by night April 16: Gilbert Neal - Hillsbohemian troubador extraordinaire with eclectic lyrical interests April 23: Gregory Blaine of Rootzie - Blue Bayou mainstay in full acoustic glory April 30: Ladies Night Out Band to be announced May 7: Skeedadle - Retro-fitted Durham five-piece bring their dirty blues genius for your pleasure May 14: Haw River Rounders - return visit from possibly the highest educated trio in the Triangle |
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 Basic Bread-Making WorkshopCome learn to hand knead basic bread dough on April 5th with former Weaver Street Market baker Emily Buehler! After kneading your dough, you'll learn all about the chemistry of bread while it rises, and then shape and bake your own baguette. Sign up for the Sunday afternoon workshop at the Abundance Foundation at their website here. Register before the end of March at the special rate of $30. The Abundance Foundation is a nonprofit based in Pittsboro that "champions vibrant, diverse and innovative ideas surrounding renewable energy, local food systems, and community-aware businesses that create abundance and bring people together, and educates and empowers others to do the same." Other workshops in April include Vermiculture and Fungi 101: Hands on Mushroom Log Cultivation. |
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| Display Ad Space | |||
 Beginning in April, Weaver Street Market will be offering display ad space in our print newsletter. Click here for ad rates and specifications. |
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| Carrboro Farmers' Markets | |||
Saturdays 7 am - Noon301 W. Main St. on the Town Commons Wednesday Carrboro Farmers' Market 301 W. Main St. on the Town Commons Closed for the season. Re-opens April 8, 2009, 3:30 - 6:30 PM Southern Village Farmers' Market on the Village Green, Market Street, Chapel Hill, NC Closed for the Season. Re-opens Thursday, May 7, 2009, 4:00 - 7:00 PM MARCH SPECIAL EVENTS: Saturday March 28th: Taste Education in the Gazebo. Ever participated in a taste test? We're not going to blind fold you to see if you can tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but we might want to see if you can tell the difference between a spring carrot and an overwintered carrot, or clover honey vs. sourwood honey. We want your taste buds to teach you about our products, which is why we will be starting a taste education series once a month at Market. This month: HONEY! Come learn about various types of honey, their history, and of course, THEIR TASTES! |
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 Opening April 2009University Mall Scrapel Hill Art of University Mall is an inaugural Chapel Hill public arts project where the best local artists create works of art to help educate and promote the value of recycling. The show will feature works by local artists created of recycled and non-recyclable materials. Scrapel Hill Art was created to celebrate and inspire imagination and creativity within our community by utilizing and nuturing the arts. |
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 Arts & Letters Community Center needs your support!In early 2006 the nonprofit organization Arts & Letters Community Center was formed to take over the original Market Street Books. The entire company is a social entrepreneurship, so they depend primarily on retail sales to support the organization's mission to provide a place where people of all ages can develop creative self-expression. All of their sales revenue is returned to the organization; no individual receives any of the earnings except for wages. They understand how difficult the past few months have been for everyone, and they have worked as long as possible without asking for broad financial support. However, now they need support from the community to continue providing a variety of classes and books to inspire creativity. Please consider giving a donation to Market Street Books to keep this great venture going. |
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 The newly formed Company Shops Market Co-op is pleased to announce they've found a location!Living the dream of re-use and recycle, what was once an A&P grocery store at 268 East Front Street in downtown Burlington, will be a market once again. At present, they have over 750 family and individual owners. They still need help to get them to 2,000 — the number they need by the time the store opens! This will be a store owned by the community, run by the community, and supported by the community, so we're asking you to do your part to help get the market open! |
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 The New Generation of Plastics: Compostable!By Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer It would be great if garbage just disappeared when you threw it out. But barring that, compostable garbage is probably the best kind. Not only does it break down easily, it turns into lovely brown dirt that can be reused. Fortunately, more and more items are being made out of such materials, like the compostable plant pots made of rice hulls (mentioned above) and compostable 'PLA' to-go containers. While the plant pots can be composted on the average household compost pile, PLA plastic requires temperatures of about 130 degrees, higher than most piles reach. These items need to go to a 'professional composter,' where they'll be broken down. You can return clean PLA items to the bins outside Weaver Street Market in Carrboro and Southern Village, where our staff collects them and brings them to the compost dumpster. (We ask that they be clean to keep the flies away.) |
| New to the Piedmont Farm Tour: PLANT@Breeze Farm |
 Teaching Old Farmers New Tricks
by Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer Joanna Lelekacs had been farming for four years when she signed up for Orange County's PLANT class, People Learning Agriculture Now for Tomorrow. She'd started about a month after her first date with Bill, an active farmer, and a year later they were married. Now, while working other full time jobs, Bill and Joanna plant and harvest together in Efland on a few acres of land known as Dancing Pines Farm. A visit to Dancing Pines makes it clear that farming isn't just a weekend hobby to the Lelekacs: two ponds with irrigation systems water the large fields, fruit trees and berry bushes fill the spaces between, and two large hoop houses allow the couple to farm all winter. They even have their own tractor. While their jobs (at the Department of Agriculture and as a landscape architect) do seem outdoorsy, Bill still hopes to farm fulltime someday. But the interest goes beyond the workday. Joanna shares with me the books on their bedside table: Backyard Market Gardening, How to Grow More Vegetables, Intro to Permaculture, The Winter Harvest Manual. Her favorite is a 1930's memoir of a farm in Ohio, From My Experience by Louis Bromfield. Joanna relates to Bromfield, who resisted the growing use of pesticides and herbicides long before anyone had spoken out against them. Dancing Pines Farm has always been chemical-free. Not being at the farm fulltime makes it harder for Bill and Joanna to manage their crops. They've learned to stagger planting, which enables staggered harvests to sell at Market, but they're only able to sell to restaurants and co-ops when they have surplus. They'd like to be able to supply their wholesale accounts more regularly. And they sometimes fall behind in planting because the good weather doesn't fall on the weekends when they're home. They'd like to get a better routine down for planting cover crops, rotating crops, and building up the soil. That's why Joanna signed up for PLANT. She'd heard about it through a fellow farmer and initially thought it was just for new farmers; but after seeing the list of workshops (like "Soils, Fertility, & Crop Rotations" and "Pests, Diseases, & Weeds"), she signed up. Joanna enjoyed hearing about the science behind farming and hearing other farmers' experiences. She opted not to make a business plan or to use the land available to the class for planting at Breeze Farm, since she had her hands full with her own farm. But most importantly, her vague understanding of cover crops and soil science solidified into a well-rounded big picture, and if she ever has enough time, she'd like to make a multi-year crop rotation plan. She also learned about online resources for identifying insects and strategies for attracting beneficial ones. She's in the process of "farmscaping" the ledge of earth next to the new hoop house with native black-eyed Susans, and vitex, a shrub loved by pollinators. PLANT is wrapping up its second season and sending a new herd of farmers out to sew seeds at the Breeze Farm, another stop on the 2009 Farm Tour. PLANT's organizers have asked Weaver Street Market to donate a tractor to the program the tractor would be used all year, as cover crops and harvested plantings are turned under to prepare new furrows, and would save the new farmers time and labor. The tractor fund was one of the beneficiaries of our Hope for the Holidays program last December; donations are still welcome. Visit Dancing Pines Farm and the PLANT class's land at the Breeze Farm on the Piedmont Farm Tour, April 25-26. Look for Joanna and Dancing Pines Farm at the South Estes Farmers' Market in University Mall on the third Saturday of March, or outside in the parking lot at A Southern Season every Saturday morning beginning in April. To sign up for Dancing Pines's email newsletter, email them here. |
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