By Emily Buehler, Weaver Street Market Website Coordinator This year on the Piedmont Farm Tour we visited Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm. You can read about our visit and see photos, here. Below are some video clips of the buffalo!
On the Farm Tour: Stoney Mountain Farm
One of our all time favorite farm visits was to Stoney Mountain Farm in Burlington. Olga Brewer invited us out to see the sheep whose wool she felts into her ever-popular dryer balls, as well as the other flocks she tends with her husband, John Brewer. In 2017, Stoney Mountain Farm joined the Piedmont Farm…
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Summer Music Begins this Month
The band schedules are posted, and the oak trees are ready: our summer music starts this month!
Continue ReadingOn the Farm Tour: Breeze Farm
By Emily Buehler, Weaver Street Market Website Coordinator This year on the Farm Tour we visited Breeze Farm. The farm was donated to NC State by the Breeze family, and is intended to further organic agriculture. It’s used as a “farm incubator”: aspiring and new farmers can rent land and use the existing infrastructure as…
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New Art from Northside Elementary School
Art:K12 is an exhibition program at our Carrboro store’s cafe that focuses on artwork created by local children and youth. This month’s exhibit includes landscapes and portraits from Northside Elementary School.
Continue ReadingWine Shows Raise over $12,000 for CCF
This month’s wine show ticket sales raised $10,502 for the Cooperative Community Fund. This money will build the fund, which is a sustainable endowment fund that currently has over $200,000. The fund’s interest is awarded each year to local nonprofits to do community projects that focus on access to healthy food. In addition, the raffle…
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On the Farm Tour: Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm
This year on the Piedmont Farm Tour we headed out to Roxboro to visit Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm. The farm was beautiful, with rolling, grassy fields and a lake with a fountain.
Continue ReadingLatino Community Credit Union (Video)
We recently visited Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU) in Carrboro Plaza to learn about their mission of providing “ethical financial products and education to empower communities.” Read more here, or watch a video from our visit, below.
Farm Tour This Weekend
The 22nd annual Piedmont Farm Tour is this weekend, April 22 and 23 from 2 to 6 each day. Our tour is the biggest farm tour in the country, with thousands of visitors out each day, touring up to 40 farms. Share your photos! Post your favorite farm tour moment on social media and tag…
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An LCCU Success Story
Previously, we described our visit to the Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU), a not-for-profit financial instritution that provides “ethical financial products and education to empower communities.” LCCU will attend our Co-op Fair on April 30, so you can talk with them more about becoming a member. LCCU offers members accessible loans as well as financial…
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