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Pick up Gearhart’s chocolates as a special treat for your mother! These tasty confections come from Gearharts Fine Chocolates in Charlottesville, Virgina, where Tim Gearhart opened up his chocolate shop…
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This month, we took a field trip to several of our produce and meat suppliers. We gathered at the ECO-HUB in Durham, where we toured the offices and storage areas of Eastern Carolina Organics (ECO) and Firsthand Foods.

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Botanical Interest seed packets are on sale this weekend. This family-owned business sells seeds that are untreated and GMO-free. The seeds have a reputation for high germination rates, and many…
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Our local strawberries have started to arrive from several different farms in eastern North Carolina.

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You might have noticed stacks of bagged compost outside our Carrboro and Hillsborough stores. The compost comes from Brooks, the same contractor who picks up our kitchen scraps! Brooks’s compost…
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By Carolyn Twesten, Weaver Street Market Produce Merchandiser Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Bluebird Meadows Farm in Hurdle Mills with two of our produce department managers, Greg…
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It’s April, which means one thing in the pastry bakery: strawberry pastries. Look for these strawberry treats to arrive in our stores this week.

Our pastry bakers are at work making the first round of seasonal spring pastries. For Passover, they’re making Sacher torte, chocolate roulade, raspberry roulade, coconut macaroons, and chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons….
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Last month our staff visited Fading D Farm in Salisbury. Faythe and David DiLoreto raise water buffalo and make buffalo milk cheeses in their creamery. Read more about them here,…
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