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Delicious Treats for Easter and Passover! The Weaver Street Market bakers are making Passover and Easter extra delicious this year. All month long we'll have two flourless tortes to choose from: the world famous Sacher Torte and a new soon-to-be-favorite Chocolate Pecan Torte. Look for coconut macaroons: plain and dark chocolate dipped. And this week only we'll have Cream Puff Bunnies (diplomat cream filled éclair shells with ganache whiskers and dusted with powdered sugar) and Vanilla Biddies that look like chicks but taste like cake (vanilla cake coated with vanilla butter cream and toasted coconut made to resemble adorable biddies). So when you drop by your local Weaver Street Market for your groceries, don't forget to pick something special from our pastry case. |
Wine Sale & Shows Hillsborough Open Mic Jazz Brunch Begins! Hillsborough Art Show Earth Action Day |
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| Piedmont Farm Tour Avillion Farm Volunteer for the Farm Tour Envirobits |
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| Easter Specials Tuscan Wine Tasting Event New Art 4/6 |
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| Weekly Produce Specials Weekly Meat Specials |
April Newsletter Easter Special: Local Eggs! |
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| Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, April 7 through Monday, April 13. |
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| California Seedless Navel Oranges |
79¢ lb |
Last of the season! super low price |
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| Organic White Melogold Grapefruit | A WSM exclusive! $1.19 lb |
from Buck Farms product of California |
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| Local Organic Sweet Potatoes | from Pine Knot Farm 99¢ lb |
Hurdle Mills, NC product of North Carolina |
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| Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials | |||
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USDA Choice Flank Steak |
All Natural $7.99 lb |
great on the grill! save $2.00 lb |
| Murray's Boneless Chicken Breasts | $5.99 lb |
all natural save $1.50 lb |
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| Local Pasture-raised Pork Boneless Smoked Hams | $4.99 lb |
half or whole! |
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| North Carolina Wild-caught Shell on Shrimp |
1 lb. bags $6.99 each |
From our freezer save $1.00 each |
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| Read more about other Weaver Street Market Specials. | |||
| View the April CAP Flyer here. | |||
| April Newsletter | |||
 The Weaver Street Market print newsletter will no longer be direct mailed. Instead, you will find a link to it here. |
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| Easter Special: Local Eggs! | |||
 Fickle Creek Farm Eggs on sale for Easter!25% OFF/dozen eggs! Locally grown in Efland, NC Thru Monday, April 13, 2009 If you're looking for a truly free-range egg, Fickle Creek Farm's eggs are the answer. The chickens have large pastures that they can forage in and mobile coops where they roost and lay their eggs. Four Great Pyrenees dogs guard the chickens from fox, hawks, and other predators. The farming philosophy of Ben and Noah, the owners of Fickle Creek, is "sustainably as possible and as humanely as possible." They use no antibiotics, no growth hormones and follow a natural laying cycle. |
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| 5th Annual Spring Wine Sale & Shows | |||
 Please join us for our 5th Annual Spring Wine Sale & Shows, two more weekends of tasting some of the best deals in wine.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! 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: Saturday, April 11 in Southern Village, 1-5 pm Saturday, April 18 in Carrboro, 1-5 pm |
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| Hillsborough Open Mic | |||
 Hillsborough store Acoustic Open-MicEvery Thursday 6:30-8:30 pm Our esteemed guests in the Lounge for the next few weeks: 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 - Featuring special artist Kat Whalen! 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 The Lilac Lounge has so far given away CDs and even Musical Instruments...if you missed those fantastic prizes, we have another great giveaway for the next two weeks! Our friends at WQDR Raleigh have donated several pairs of day tickets for the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival. We'll be giving them away both this week and next week, we hope to see you at the Lounge! |
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| Jazz Brunch Begins! | |||
 Sunday, April 2611:00 am - 1:00 pm on the lawn in carrboro We're kicking off our Jazz & More Sunday Brunch series with a special event on April 26th to feature a newly designed trail map series designed by local nonprofit group the Sustain Foundation. April 26 - Chris Reynolds Swing N' Jazz - Just Like the Name Says May 3 - The Jeff Brown Quartet - Original Jazz May 10 - The Tim Stambaugh Band - Bluegrass, Celtic, Folk & Traditional May 17 - One Sun - World Beat Instrumental Jazz May 24 - Equinox - Jazz & Pop Standards May 31 - The Donnybrook Lads - Jigs, Reels, and Hornpipes June 7 - Dana & Susan Robinson - Original Old Time Music June 14 - Different Drum - American Music with a World Beat June 21 - Craicdown - A Poly-Ethnic Hoedown June 28 - Magnolia Klezmer Band - Romanian, Ukrainian, & Dixieland Klezmer Big Band |
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 Hillsborough Art CouncilJuried Arts & Crafts Show April 18 10 am -3 pm This juried arts and crafts show, sponsored by the Hillsborough Arts Council, will offer original, quality, handmade items and art work for sale on the lawn of the Visitor's Center at 105 East King Street in downtown Hillsborough on April 18, 2009 from 10am to 3pm. |
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 Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 12 pm - 5pmOn location at UNC's Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Earth Action Exhibitors Court Open 12 pm - 5 pm 50 plus local exhibitors and demonstrators will exhibit at Earth Action Day Environmental Resource Program - UNC Institute for the Environment * Will Exhibit 5 "ACTIONS" we can all take to protect your environmental health * Kids will have a question to answer at each display to earn a passport stamp. Demostrations from local students, town government, energy conservation industry leaders...and more Live Entertainment MAIN STAGE - Enjoy, great local bands, and dancers Earth Action Children's Activitities Food Court Earth Day Feature Film - 7 p.m. Morehead Planetarium's Digital Theater AV Geeks screening of "The Last Time We Were Green" |
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| Click here for ALL Chapel Hill events scheduled for the week of Earth Day. | |||
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| Board Meeting |
 WSM Board meetingWednesday, April 15, 6:30-9:30pm The Board meets on the third Wednesday of each month in the Community Realty building on the northwest corner of Weaver and Greensboro Streets in Carrboro. Meetings run from 6:30-9:30pm and all owners of the Co-op are welcome to attend as observers. To confirm an upcoming meeting, please contact the board here. |
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 Weaver Street Market is now offering display ad space in our print newsletter. Click here for ad rates and specifications. |
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| Wild Herb Walk | |||
 Monday, April 205:30 - 7:00 pm, rain or shine Meet outside Weaver Street Market 228 S Churton St. Hillsborough Join Herbalist and Wildcrafter, Will Endres on this informal walk to learn more about the incredible healing herbs and plants located right here in the heart of Hillsborough. Cost $15. No pre-registration required. Just show up ready to learn. Will Endres is a local Hillsborough resident who is recognized nationally as an expert and pioneer in the healing properties of herbs. He also has developed a line of herbal tinctures and dry herbs, many of which he sells at local farmers' markets and natural foods stores. Will can be reached at 919.732.9785. |
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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 available for purchase at all three Weaver Street Market locations now! 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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 Avillion FarmBy Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer Elaina Kenyon began spinning wool into yarn in graduate school. She'd grown up on a dairy and meat farm, but didn't want exactly that life for herself. But when a friend taught her how to spin, she knew she'd found her calling. As soon as she had the land and time for animals, she started raising angora rabbits, long-haired bunnies that can be shorn four times a year for their soft, warm wool. A few years later, she added angora goats, whose wool is known as mohair, and then Shetland sheep. Last year, Elaina moved her enterprise, named Avillion Farm, to the end of a quiet gravel road in rural Efland, and she's joined the Farm Tour this year to allow visitors to come see the rabbits, goats, and sheep, along with her Great Pyrenees guard dogs, her pet American Buff geese in the pond, and a roving flock of peafowl (that is, peacocks and peahens)! The lady goats roam in the trees by the driveway. Several are waddling around on the day of our visit, due to have their kids any day, which means one thing on Farm Tour weekend: adorable baby goats. In a separate pen is Flash, the eight-year old male goat responsible for all the pregnancies. He watches us walk around, periodically doing some adept scratching with his foot long horns, and Elaina tells us he'd love to meet us. All the animals seem exceptionally friendly, and Elaina says even the rams and bucks are safe as long as they're handled properly. The Shetland rams stand watching us from another wooded pen while their Great Pyrenees guard dog, Violet, romps around like a large Muppet. Violet is from a local Pyrenees Rescue, which is where these dogs can end up when too many are bred, or when their former owners find them too big or too noisy. The rams' coats reflect the colors I've seen in natural wools, from cream-colored to deep brown and 'moorit' or reddish brown. One ram, Shaemus, who's the color of coffee with lots of milk, is 'rooing' or naturally shedding — only some sheep do this. In a shelter in the center of the farm are the rabbit hutches, filled with long-haired rabbits of every color. Their ears curl forward as if they're on wires, and a few have nests filled with straw, wool, and snuggling baby bunnies. Underneath the hutches are bins to collect the rabbit droppings for gardeners; some of the bins have colonies of worms or native beetles aiding the composting process. The rabbits, just like sheep and angora goats, aren't hurt to get their wool; it's just clipped off with scissors; some rabbits even shed naturally. Elaina can hold a shedding rabbit on her lap and spin the wool straight off him! Elaina spins some of her wool into yarn, blending the different animals' fibers to get softer or stronger yarns. The rest of the wool goes to a small mill for spinning into yarns or rovings according to her specifications. Elaina works full time off the farm, and sells her yarns, roving and felted items at the annual Southeastern Fiber Fair near Asheville, as well as at other local fiber events. Visit Avillion Farm this year on the Farm Tour and meet all the animals. There'll be a yarn spinning demo and yarn for sale, as well as unspun 'roving' for anyone who wants to spin their own. And visit Elaina's website here. |
| Volunteer For the Farm Tour |
| The sustainable farming and food movement is stronger than ever and a big part of that has been getting people out onto farms to see things firsthand. We could not have accomplished this without the help of volunteers. We would love to have you join us in 2009 for one day of volunteering. Here are the details: The tour will be Saturday and Sunday April 25 and 26, 2009 It is 1 PM to 6 PM both days Volunteering is easy — you check people in when they arrive and help the farmer as needed Volunteers receive: • the pleasure and fun of helping support sustainable farming • behind-the-scenes knowledge of a specific farm • fun with kids • a cool tour T-shirt • a free button to tour farms the other day of the tour • our enduring appreciation! If you would like to volunteer this year, email Fred Broadwell at the Carolina Farm Stewardship or call him at 919-542-2402 (office) or 919-943-1068 (cell). Once again, thank you so much for considering this service! Recruit others and spread the word about volunteering! |
| Envirobits |
 Garbage Bags with a Purposeby Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer There's a new garbage bag in town: Natural Value's quick-degrading 30-gallon plastic garbage bags. You know they're serious when they warn you to store your garbage bags in a cool dry place and use them within 18 months. And what's more, the boxes of 15 bags are affordably priced at $2.09. Natural Value was started by Jody Stephens and Gary Cohen in 1995 with the mission of making natural and organic foods and environmentally friendly nonfood products more affordable. They've been practicing 'fair trade' by paying their manufacturers a fair price and sticking with them instead of shopping around, and they re dedicated to offering high-quality products. Visit the Natural Value website here and look for their garbage bags, as well as other items like parchment paper and waxed-paper sandwich bags, at Weaver Street Market! |
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