Healthy Eating

Peach season is here! Peach ripening tips, recipes, and more.

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By Carolyn Twesten, Weaver Street Market Produce Merchandiser My favorite thing about buying local produce is the seasonality of it all. Sure, it’s a bummer not to have juicy strawberries or tomatoes in January, but they taste so much better when the local harvest comes in, in season.  And there is usually something in season!…
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The new Tamari Sunflower Tempeh is now on the salad bar in our stores. It’s both gluten-free and vegan friendly.

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Local NC strawberries have arrived in our stores! This year, organic berries are coming to us from eastern North Carolina via Eastern Carolina Organics, mainly from two farms: Cottle Organics and Uncle Henry’s Organics in Rose Hill. We also have conventional berries from Lewis Farm. Last year, our staff visited both organic farms on a…
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Now is a great time to do a little spring cleaning in our internal environment as well as in our external environment–with greens!

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Ataulfo, Honey, Champagne, Manila… What’s in a name? In the case of these names, they all belong to our most beloved MANGO.

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We’re helping our friends at Seal the Seasons sell 4000 bags of frozen fruit! A distributor kicked them out of their storage space without much warning, so we bought the fruit and are selling it at a huge discount. We’ve got frozen peaches, strawberries, mixed berries, and Carolina Blend (peach and berry), all from our…
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We’ve concluded that frozen seafood is a better option than thawed and tray-packed seafood. Carolyn tells us why.

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Through much of the year, our avocados come from farmer co-ops in the Michoacan Province of Mexico. But January through March is the height of flavor for these avocados.

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