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Naked Sponges! Celebrate Earth Day with a Different Kind of Sponge Most people don't like cleaning. Countertops, dishes, you name it—it's the chore they procrastinate and put off. The makers of Twist cleaning products believe people don't like cleaning because they don't like the materials required to do it: the chemicals and the disposable tools. So they invented cleaning products they loved to use that were friendly to the environment. Twist's biodegradable 'European sponge' works for everything from spills to regular kitchen cleanup, and can be refreshed in the dishwasher or in boiling water. The 'naked sponge' lacks the chemicals, colors, and adulterated stuff you might find in traditional sponges. More |
Piedmont Farm Tour! Wine Sale Hillsborough Open Mic Jazz Brunch Begins SV Music Series Tuba Day! Hillsborough Last Friday Ladies Night Out |
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April Newsletter Local Strawberries! |
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The 'loofah sponge' is made of unbleached, un-dyed white cellulose and tan, scrubby loofah. And it's biodegradable, just like the food it cleans up after. And the 'sponge cloth' is basically a reusable paper towel that's still biodegradable in the end. The only thing wrong with Twist products is the thin layer of plastic wrap, and Brian from Twist writes, "We are looking at getting into biodegradable clear plastic in the future."The sponges' packaging has a surprise inside: cut and fold lines printed in the package enable you to turn it into a bird feeder or bird mobile! (You can even upload your bird feeder photos to Twist's website here—they only have one posted so far.) Twist sponges are featured in the co-op advantage program (CAP) flyer this month, on sale through the end of April: a European cleaning sponge is $1.29, a 2-pack of naked sponges is $1.79, a loofah cleaning sponge is $3.29 for 2, and a European cleaning cloth is $2.69. Additional 50-cent-off CAP coupons apply to all Twist products, and can be found in the quarterly coupon flyer near the store entrance. Celebrate Earth Day by updating your cleaning habits to include Twist sponges. Top it off with other environmentally friendly April CAP specials: Seventh Generation laundry detergent for $12.99 and dishwashing liquid for $2.99. Using these products, you'll be celebrating "Earth Day Every Day." |
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| Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, April 21 through Monday, April 27. |
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| New crop Florida Bi-color Corn |
6 ears/$2.99 |
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| Organic Ataulfo Mangoes | 5/$5.00 |
product of Mexico |
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| Sweet & tart! Minneola Tangelos | $1.29 lb |
product of California |
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Plainville Farms Dark Ground Turkey |
1 lb. pkg $3.99 each |
All Natural save 60¢ |
| USDA Choice Rib Eye Steaks | $9.99 lb |
All Natural save $5.00 lb |
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| North Carolina Jumbo Peeled Shrimp | $8.99 lb |
From our freezer save $2.00 lb |
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| 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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| Local Strawberries! | |||
 Locally grown, organic strawberries from Vollmer Farm are in stores now! Sweet, delicious and ORGANIC! $4.99/pkg |
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| 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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| Wine Sale: Last Days! | |||
 Our fabulous Spring Wine Sale comes to end tomorrow, April 22. If you haven't had a chance to stock up, do it now, before the sale ends.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! Wine Sale - ends tomorrow April 22. |
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 The Lilac Lounge: Hillsborough store Acoustic Open-MicEvery Thursday 6:30-8:30 pm Our esteemed guests in the Lounge for the next few weeks: April 23: Gregory Blaine of Rootzie - Blue Bayou mainstay in full acoustic glory April 30: Ladies Night Out: - Katharine Whalen! - Hillsborough Ladies' Night, with Efland's own Sultana of Swing May 7: Skeedadle - Retro-fitted Durham five-piece bring their dirty blues genius for your pleasure May 14: Haw River Rounders - Return visit from UNC/Duke bipartisan ensemble. May 21: Marla Vickers - A little bit country, Bayou and Clay Street regular with her acoustic duo. May 28: Mark Holland's Rhythm Force - Blues genius of Jule Brown and Jennyanykind in his fresh incarnation, straight outta Pittsboro. • Generous donations of floor lamps still graciously accepted by the Lounge. • Conratulations to everyone who won free Shakori Hills tickets these last two weeks! It was great to see so many of you there! • Thanks, WQDR Raleigh for the very generous donation! |
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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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| SV Music Series | |||
 Kickoff: Sunday, May 3rd, 7:00 pmVillage Green in Southern Village The Sunday evening music series kicks off the season with the first free concert of the summer. The opening concert features "Three Great Guitarists", Will McFarlane, Armand Lenchek & Danny Gotham, in their always-anticipated annual performance. The concert will be followed by a screening of the classic Martin Scorsese film, "The Last Waltz". Be our guests and have fun—all of this is free of charge! We encourage you to bring a picnic, and relax and enjoy the evening. If you don't feel like packing a picnic, please stop at one of our local food establishments for an easy take-out meal to enjoy on the Green. Sunday concerts run through September 13th. More details about the Summer Music Series will be posted very soon. For a preview of the music, please check the websites for each of these 3 great performers: Danny Gotham Will McFarlane Armand and Bluesology |
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| Tuba Day | |||
 Friday May 15:30 - 7:00 pm on the lawn in Carrboro The Triangle Tuba Quartet will be performing on the lawn in Carrboro as part of International Tuba Day, Friday May 1, 5:30 - 7:00 pm. |
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| Hillsborough Last Friday | |||
 April 24thMusic, Art Galleries, Shops and Dining! 6-9pm downtown Hillsborough Weaver Street Market will have live music by the NEW RIVER ROCKSKIPPERS from 6:30 - 8:30 pm. - Local favorites and our near neighbors opening up the new season of Last Fridays May 29th: HILLSBOROUGH LAST FRIDAY with Tim Stambaugh - one of our favorite things about Carrboro, making a second coming to the Lounge |
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| Ladies Night Out | |||
 "Build a Bouquet"Thursday, April 30 6 - 9 pm downtown Hillsborough It's time again ladies! Time to grab your girl friends to do some shopping, dining and relaxing in Downtown Hillsborough. Because "Girls Just Want To Have Fun!" The Downtown Merchants of Historic Hillsborough will feature for the ladies: flowers at each location while they last, wine tastings, hot teas, chair massages, tasty goodies, manicures, pedicures, live music and a general good time at their "Build a Bouquet" Ladies Night Out on Thursday, April 30th from 6 to 9 pm. Weaver Street Market will feature flowers, open mic starting at 6 pm, live music by Kat Whalen from 7:30 - 8:30, free samples of food, wine and/or beer. Extra flowers available for purchase to add to your bouquet. |
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 Celebrates Grand Opening!April 25th 8 am to noon The new Eno River Farmers' Market will celebrate its grand opening in the public market house in Hillsborough on from 8 am to noon on Saturday, April 25th. Look for special music, face painting, a chef demo, and more. Begun last year as the Orange County Farmers' Market, the Eno River Market offers a wide variety of fare, from locally grown organic produce and free-range eggs to pasture-raised beef, homemade cheeses, and knitted clothing. |
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| View a complete list of local Farmers' Markets here. | |||
| Community Non-Profit Day | |||
 Sunday, May 3, 11 am - 1 pmon the lawn in Carrboro Every first Sunday of the month, May through October, from 11 am - 1 pm, Weaver Street Market will host nonprofit groups from our community. Local, non-profit groups will have informational tables where you can find out about the good works of our local charitable groups. Come prepared to learn, to donate, and maybe find a group you'd like to volunteer with! If your organization would like to attend: Space is limited and assigned on a first come basis so we ask that you sign up at least a week in advance and limit the number of times you sign up to three (3) per year. Also, your group must be a 501(c)(3). To apply, please email Jason Baker or call 919-241-1794. Your request will be confirmed by email or phone. Come out and let everyone know what your group is doing in the community! |
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 Coon Rock Farmby Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer In the five years that they've been farming on Dimmocks Mill Road in Hillsborough, Richard Holcomb and Jamie DeMent have built quite an establishment. Their fifty-five acres contain impressive rows of every vegetable imaginable, woodlands filled with hogs, mobile chicken coops, a barn in the process of being expanded, and a sawmill that turns trees from the farm into lumber for building. At the bottom of the yard, the Eno River twists along between the edge of the pasture and a forest, heading toward the swimming hole where sits the landmark "Coon Rock." This season the pasture contains some goats, but soon it may have a cover crop or a garden: Coon Rock Farm is a well-integrated system where animals are rotated through with vegetables, grazing on the remains of crops and rejuvenating the soil without synthetic fertilizers. A flock of egg-laying chickens migrates from one field to the next with their coops, set on old tobacco trailers; nearby are the meat chickens. One pen in the woods has baby pigs, while another has the larger hogs; meat goats, sheep, and cattle are elsewhere on the farm. A pair of turkeys is in the barn temporarily, producing the eggs that will be hatched for Thanksgiving turkeys. Free roaming ducks watch from the rafters. There are even "American silver fox" rabbits in hutches; the breed was popular for meat at the turn of the century, but soon lost out to white rabbits, whose meat tasted about the same and whose fur could be dyed to any color desired. Now there are less than 1000 of the silver fox rabbits left. Thanks to the popularity of locally grown food and our area's new winter farmers' markets, many farmers are extending growing seasons with hoop houses and transplants. Coon Rock Farm is no exception. Two hoop houses contain rows of lettuce, beets, radishes, carrots, and turnips. Trays of transplants have just been moved out of the aisles and planted. (The transplants don't just give farmers a head start, they make some crops possible: if farmers waited to plant broccoli seeds in the ground, for example, the broccoli wouldn't be ready before the first ninety degree day, which kills the plants.) When this round of vegetables is done, the hoop houses will be done for the summer; with their sides rolled up, they'll be shelters for the turkeys. Richard and Jamie strive to do everything sustainably. The rotations of plants and animals on the land enable them to farm without synthetic fertilizers. They have a root cellar for storage that doesn't use power. They use biodegradable burlap coffee bags from local roasters as mulch, and as a result have to irrigate very little. And they have the largest compost pile I've seen. Visit Coon Rock Farm on the Farm Tour and see the gardens and animals for yourself. Coon Rock Farm sells at the South Estes Farmers' Market and the Cary Downtown Farmers' Market on Saturday mornings, and at the Moore Square Farmers' Market in Raleigh on Wednesdays. They have almost sold all 250 CSA shares for this summer. They also sell to many local restaurants, and Weaver Street Market has begun selling their pork. |
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