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| Weekly Owner Specials | |||
 • Weaver Street Market's Fresh Hot Cross Buns 20% Off • Wild Caught Alaskan Sockeye Salmon Save $2.00 lb • Route 11 Potato Chips 30% Off • Weaver Street Market's Tomato & Roasted Garlic Soup 25% Off • Organic Gold Nugget Mandarins Save 70¢ lb • Argentine Parmesan Save $1.50 lb • Great deal for all shoppers: Carolina Brewery Growlers Save $1.00/bottle |
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| View this week's owner specials here. | |||
| Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, March 16 through Monday, March 22. |
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| Organic Red or Green Leaf Lettuce |
or Romaine 2 heads for $3.00 |
from California save $1.58 on two |
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| Fresh Green Asparagus | $1.99 lb |
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| Organic Stawberries | 8 oz package 2 for $6.00 |
Save $1.98 on two |
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| Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials | |||
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Pepper Bourbon Meatballs |
$5.99/lb |
Local Grassfed Beef |
| Read more about other Weaver Street Market Specials here. | |||
| Value Recipe | |||
 Our weekly value recipes incorporate lots of our On Sale items! Click below to view this week's value recipe: Maple Salmon with Asparagus (served with Strawberry Salad or Tomato & Roasted Garlic Soup) |
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| View more WSM Recipes here. | |||
| Passover & Easter Specials | |||
 Chocolate Roulade - The cake that says we're not kosher but we try. Made with matzo meal and potato starch chocolate sponge wrapped around and coated in chocolate buttercream and chocolate curls. It's only here for a limited time at a featured price. $16.99 whole roll, $2.95 a slice, available March 24 - April 6Flourless Sacher Torte - Flourless nut-delicious cakes with a layer of apricot jam and covered in chocolate ganache. $26.00 8" torte, $3.25 a slice, available March 24 - April 6 Large Coconut Macaroons & Small Chocolate-coated Macaroons $3.00/4-pk. 99¢/each, available March 24 - April 6 Cream Puff Bunnies - Puff pastry filled with delicate diplomat cream, dusted with powdered sugar, a little chocolate for whiskers and you have an Easter treat that you can share or keep to yourself. $2.49 each, available March 26 - April 4 Vanilla Biddies - Looks like a chick, but tastes like cake! A vanilla cupcake turned inside out - coated with vanilla buttercream and toasted coconut, add an almond beak and currants for eyes and this chick makes a 2010 comeback. Pick one up for your Easter basket. $2.49 each, available March 26 - April 4 Hot Cross Buns - These traditional sweet rolls are loaded with currants and backed up by tangy spices—nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cinnamon—rounded out with a jolt of sweetness across the top. 89¢ each, $3.25 4-pack, available March 16 - April 4 |
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| St Patrick's Day Treats | |||
 These sweet treats only appear in March. Get yours now, before the rainbow disappears and they do too!Irish Soda Bread - Whole-grain quick bread made with buttermilk, apricots, figs, and currants. $3.25/loaf, available March 2 - March 27 Irish Shortbread Cookies - Buttery tender shortbread filled with raspberry jam. 99¢/each, available March 3 - 30 Bailey's Irish Cream Cheese Cake - Bailey's Irish Cream Liqueur and Jameson Irish Whiskey make a strong showing in this silky cheesecake contender with more than a hint of chocolate to even out the field. Slice $2.95, 6" $16.50, 8" $21.50, available March 3 - 30 Chocolate Orange Guinness Quick Bread - This delicate cake is great with coffee or a strong tea and yes, you can taste the Guinness. $3.49/each, available March 3 - 30 Irish Oat Scones - Lots of oats and brown sugar make these crumbly scones something to savor on a cool March morning. $1.29/each, available March 3 - 30 on Wednesdays & Saturdays only |
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| Haw River Man | |||
 Fine Wine Importer
In Our Own Back Yardby Peg Todloski, Contributing Writer Jim Stock opened his company, the Haw River Wine Man, in 1995 with a portfolio that consisted of 6 wines from Southern Italy. Focusing on quality and price, Jim built his selection of wines with a firm belief that wine is an everyday beverage and not the exclusive domain of the wealthy and privileged. The company got its big break when Jim discovered the wines of the Cantina Sociale Cooperativa Leverano, a co-op in Puglia, Italy, around the fall of 1996. This was the first time Haw River Wine Man was able to place an order of a thousand cases with one winery. Leverano Rosso became an everyday wine staple throughout the Triangle, and quickly made way for Leverano white and one of Weaver Street Market's favorites: Leverano Rosato. We also buy Primitivo and Salice Salentino from this co-op. These wines absolutely express the character of their region—the reds dark and rich, typical of warm weather reds. The whites and Rosatos are crisp with nice body and concentration of flavor and a dry zesty finish, just what you would expect from white wines made on the Puglia peninsula. Although Haw River Wine Man imports all kinds of wines, Jim Stock is particularly proud of the relationships he has built with the three Cooperativas with which he does business. Colterenzio is a co-op with 290 farmer-members in Northern Italy that produces incredibly elegant and pure wines with subtleties you'd find in any of Italy's finest wines. Cantina Frentana is a 450 farmer-member co-op that produces wines under the Vellevo label and makes affordable, characteristic whites and reds from Southern Italy on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. And, of course, Leverano, a 1400 farmer-member co-op that introduced North Carolina's Triangle region to hearty southern Italian reds with character, flavor and prices that make you want to make them your everyday wines. Just as Tim has built firm, lasting relationships with these co-op wineries, Jim Stock and Weaver Street Market have worked together for years in both retail and community endeavors. The Haw River Wine Man has partnered with Weaver Street Market over the years in fund-raising events for natural disasters and community non-profits. Weaver Street Market is a proud customer of Haw River Wine Man, importer and distributor, and we think you should be, too! |
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| March Newletter | |||
 The Weaver Street Market print newsletter is no longer direct mailed, but is available for pick-up at all three WSM locations. You will find a link to it here. |
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| View the March CAP Flyer here. | |||
| Water System Upgrade | |||
 We're upgrading our water system! Our new FreshPure Waters system will offer great-tasting reverse-osmosis filtered water AND ultra-pure deionized water. Learn more here. CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE: WATER WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR SEVERAL DAYS AT EACH WEAVER STREET MARKET LOCATION WHILE WE COMPLETE THE UPGRADES. CARRBORO IS PLANNED FOR MARCH 22-23 WITH SOUTHERN VILLAGE AND HILLSBOROUGH FOLLOWING. PLEASE WATCH FOR SIGNS FOR MORE TIMELY INFO. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
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| Hillsborough Open Mic | |||
 Hillsborough store Acoustic Open-MicEvery Thursday 6:00-8:30 pm March 18th: Applesauce - Mark Holland and Pete Waggoner laying a sinister little blue glimmer on your night. Twelve strings, several harpoons and numerous instructional tales about how and where in Chatham County to make pacts with the Devil. March 25th: Gambling The Muse - Twanglicious Chapel Hillbillies with Falknerian and Weltyan leanings, showing off the songwriting of Daniel Snyder and Jason Butler, and decorated with glittery lap steel guitar and harmonies galore. April 1st: Pagan Hellcats - Our bravest guests ever, the Hellcats played through a tropical storm in 2009, and return to entertain us with more true tales from their brand new album, featuring the songwriting of Dave Rutter and Diane Rodelli. |
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| View more Weaver Street Market events here. | |||
| Wine Sale & Shows | |||
 Save the date for: Weaver Street Market's 6th Annual Spring Wine Sale & Shows! Wine Sale: April 2 - April 21 Wine Shows: Saturday, April 3, 1 - 5 pm on the lawn in Carrboro Saturday, April 10, 1 - 5 pm at Southern Village Saturday, April 17, 1 - 5 pm in Hillsborough |
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| Piedmont Farm Tour | |||
 Join us for the country's largest farm tour!•Saturday & Sunday, April 24 & 25 •1-5 pm •40 Farms for $25 in advance •$30 day of or $10 per car per farm •The Piedmont Farm Tour is a benefit for the Carolina Farm Stewardship Check out an interactive google map of the participating farms by clicking here! |
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| Love and Robots | |||
 A Puppet Rock Opera in 0's and 1'sMarch 19, 20, & 21 At Ourspace the Saxapahaw Community Center All shows are all ages and start at 8pm. No matinee's in Saxy. Set in a not-so-far dystopian future, "Love & Robots" weaves an epic tale of love, sacrifice, triumph and redemption... with, yes.... ROBOTS! Our hero, Messenger, is a radical experimental design by a brilliant underground roboticist. Through a series of serendipitous events he receives a vision of the Divine, leading him on a journey that will change him and the world forever. Come get your circuits blown and your sockets rocked with this latest production from Paperhand. This 2nd annual winter show features: smart shadows, mechanical marvels, and plenty of puppets all set to an original musical score by Jimmy Magoo and the PaperHand Band. Tickets are $15 suggested donation, available only at the door. We hope you can join us for a robotic romp that will leave your circuits humming. |
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| Save Small Farms! | |||
 Proposed Food Safety Rules Threaten the Viability of Small FarmsSam Hummel and Will Cramer of Ever Laughter Farm attended a recent meeting at which local small farmers sounded off on new food safety regulations proposed in a US House bill that has already been passed and a Senate bill that is on its way to being passed. (See Carolina Farm Stewardship's excellent fact sheet on the pending House Bill.) They reported back about the meeting: All of us want safe food, but the proposed rules do more to alleviate liability for the big players in our industrial food system than it does to ensure you or I don't get sick. If you read the proposed rules, you'd think pathogens get into our food because farmers aren't required to file enough paperwork with the government or to stick a barcode on every vegetable. You'd also think that chickens should only be raised in confined chicken houses because that's the only way to make sure their (nutrient rich) poop never gets anywhere near a living vegetable plant. If you haven't already seen Food, Inc., it includes a breathtaking expose on the food safety logic of our current industrial food system. To be clear, none of the small farmers that spoke were opposed to improving food safety. They are all intensely aware of how dreadful it would be for our local farmers markets and our farm businesses if people were to get sick from eating their produce. What they are deeply concerned about, however, is the prospect that laws written with large-scale, monoculture commodity farms in mind could cause diverse small farms like those in our community to be regulated out of existence (possibly without any real improvement in food safety!). It sounds crazy, but if the rules are written without due consideration for small, diverse, sustainability-oriented farms, there could be a future in which an inspector could threaten to shut a farm down if the farmer insisted on continuing to rotate chickens through his garden. The reality is that no congressional representative is going to vote against a 'Food Safety' bill. So, our best hope at this point is to slow the passage of the Senate bill down so that small farm advocates can work to get much-needed exemptions written into the bill. If you would be willing to make a call to our Senators, and speak as customers of small farms that sell at local farmers markets, all the farmers think it would be helpful for them to hear from customers. Here is CFSA's call-to-action, which contains contact info for our NC senators. Sam and Will send a big thank you out to Debbie Hamrick, Director of Specialty Crops for the NC Farm Bureau, for providing the forum where local small farmers could sound-off. And, another big thanks goes to Debbie Roos, Chatham County Extension Agent, for being awesome. Visit Sam and Will at the South Estes Farmers' Market on Saturday mornings, or visit their website. |
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| WSM Board Meeting |
Wednesday, March 17, 6:30-9:30 pmConference Room above Panzanella The Board usually meets on the third Wednesday of each month. Meetings run from 6:30-9:30 pm 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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| Envirobits |
 Protect our Local Shellfish Industry: Eat More Oysters!by Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer Balmy weather is coming; it's time to resume a favorite summer pastime: eating fun, messy foods outside. Ice cream cones aren't the same if you have to watch where you're dripping, and watermelon isn't half as fun to eat if you can't spit the seeds away. Out at the picnic table, you can give the kids corn-on-the-cob and not worry about what their buttery little fingers will touch next. And no one cares if a lobster claw flies across the backyard and lands in the bushes. If your summer picnic plans include an Oyster Roast, make sure to recycle your shells at the Orange County landfill. They'll be used at the coast to rebuild North Carolina's oyster crop. Normally, oyster beds develop into reefs, but since local oysters are constantly harvested, reefs don't have time to form. Oyster reefs provide many benefits, like protecting shores from erosion, filtering ocean water, and sustaining fish and other species. Putting back shells will help rebuild reefs: the shells contain chemicals that naturally attract 'spat'—baby oysters floating in the water. If spat falls into mud, instead of onto a hard substrate like old shells, the babies suffocate and die. Bring shells to the landfill during operating hours, 7 AM to 4 PM weekdays and 7:30 AM to noon Saturdays. Clam, scallop and mussel shells are okay, too. If you have a really big oyster roast, you may be eligible for a tax credit of $1.00 per bushel. (A bushel is about 55 pounds of shells.) Visit the Division of Marine Fisheries website here or call 800-682-2632 for the details. Orange County instituted this program to help residents comply with the state's ban on the landfilling of oyster shells (effective October 1st, 2009). When the County accumulates a truck load of shells, the state will collect the shells at no cost and use them to reseed oyster beds at the coast in public waters, research areas and areas currently closed to fishing. |
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| Visit Panzanella's website to view all menus (lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch). | |
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