The Cottle family of Cottle Farms in Faison, North Carolina, has been growing blueberries and strawberries for over fifty years. In 2015, they began bottling and selling JuVn8 smoothies, made with fruit grown on their own farm.
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Burrata Con Panna: Mozzarella with a Creamy Filling
This summer, we’re importing a limited quantity of a very special cheese from the Lioni branch in Italy: Burrata Con Panna won the gold metal at the 2012 Wolrd Cheese Awards. Burrata is a fresh mozzarella filled with a light, creamy filling.
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Drink Coffee, Help Sea Turtles
Joe Van Gogh sources its beans from farmers and farmer cooperatives, paying a fair trade price and, with the Cafe Feminino Project, an additional premium. In 2009, the local coffee roaster was inspired to support a different cause: education about and the rescue of endangered sea turtles. It began when third-grader Casey Sokolovic visited the…
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Weaver Bakers Reinvent Our Vollkornbrot: Try It, You’ll Like It
Voll (full). Korn (grain). Brot (bread). In German bakeries, this bread sits at the apex of dense and grainy rye loaves, proudly proclaiming its identity as the bread made only with 100% whole-grain rye. Weaver Street Market has been making this bread for at least 20 years…
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A Visit to Vollmer Farm
The Vollmer family raises organic berries and vegetables on their former tobacco farm in Bunn, NC.
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Sustainably Caught Mahi Mahi
Weaver Street Market is committed to selling only sustainable seafood, like this week’s featured mahi mahi. We use the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program as a guide. Seafood Watch “helps consumers and businesses choose seafood that’s fished or farmed in ways that protect sea life and habitats, now and for future generations” by rating…
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New Cheeses from Italy Available Now
Arriving in stores this week, we have two very special cheeses from the Caseificio dell’Alta Langa in Bosia, in northwestern Italy. Alta Langa seeks to produce cheeses using the traditional methods of the region. Their rural location with its steep slopes has an economy based on small-herd breeding of goats, sheep, and cows. As a…
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A Visit from Lagarde Winery in Argentina
We welcomed Sebastian Barboza from Lagarde Winery on Wednesday, May 27 for a visit with our staff and customers.
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A Visit to the Lunapops Kitchen
By Emily Buehler, Weaver Street Market Website Coordinator We visited the Lunapops production kitchen in 2013. They were making Raspberry Chocolate Chip that day: brilliant pink pops appeared from the molds, glistening in the air. A conveyor belt lined with packaging shuttled the pops away to the machine that sealed their individual wrappers; kitchen staff…
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Mixed-Milk Cheeses from Boxcarr Handmade Cheese
Dani and Austin Genke and Austin’s sister Samantha Genke are well on their way to achieving their dream of a family-run dairy and a restaurant that uses local produce. We visited them at Boxcarr Farms in 2012, where Dani and Austin were raising vegetables, chickens, goats, and pigs. They were selling at the farmers’ market…
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