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It's possible to be a more responsible omnivore provided you make educated choices about the meat you consume. Our meat selection criteria reflect our commitment to providing the freshest, healthiest, and most conscientiously-raised meat available. Read more.
Meet our Pasture Raised Pork Growers here.
Meet our Grass Fed Beef Growers here.
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WSM Introduces New Meat Packaging
Good things sometimes come in unusual packages. Take, for example, the vacuum-sealed packaging that might have caught your eye in the Weaver Street Market meat department. Traditionally vacuum-sealed packaging has been used to keep cured meats like bacon and hot dogs fresh. Using this type of packaging for fresh meat is just catching on in the US, although it has been widely used in Europe for some time. Weaver Street Market is converting to vacuum packaging meat for the many benefits that it brings. Read more.
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A New Approach to Selling Sustainable Meat
The recent change of how we sell meat in the Carrboro store is part of an integrated effort to bring you fresh and nutritious meat from local North Carolina farms. As your buying agent, our mission is to bring you meat that is sustainably produced. Sustainable in this context means not only grown on local farms using ecologically- sound farming practices, it also means getting the meat from the farmers’ fields to your table in an economically viable way. For local meat to become the primary meat that we sell, farmers need to be paid a high enough price to make a good living and consumers need a consistent selection of fresh product at an affordable price. Read more.
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