Community Owned Natural Foods Grocery
Dariel & Tiffany, Owners Durham, NC When Dariel and Tiffany started their family business, they wanted to do more than sell candles. They wanted to effect change and help create a world where their daughter has positive representations of people who look like her. The Black Diaspora can represent beauty, strength, joy, collectivism, and thriving….
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Rhonda L. Jones, Owner Durham, NC What began with an EZ Bake oven is now Rhonda L. Jones’s Chez Moi Bakery, a home-based specialty bakery with a food truck in Durham, NC. Rhonda started baking early, with her play oven and helping her mother. After buying rum on a Caribbean cruise, she tried baking a…
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When it comes to making pizza the decision tree can be overwhelming. From fermentation techniques to shaping to bake temperature, not to mention dough formulation and toppings, the options are endless. So when the bread bakery was tasked with designing a new line of take-home pizzas we honed in on two sources of inspiration. First,…
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By Jon McDonald, Board Chair and Bread Bakery Manager Running for the board is an amazing opportunity to serve your co-op! Elections are also an opportunity for our community to choose strong diverse leaders to guide our co-op through the next chapter of its history. All qualified owners are welcome to run, but our hope…
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June Round up funds and the proceeds of Justice for George button sales are being donated to organizations chosen by the EQUITY Alliance, a group of Weaver Street employees of color driven to transform our co-op and community. Here is why the EQUITY Alliance chose to support these groups: Recognizing the disparities present in mass…
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Weaver Street Market Online Board Meeting, Wednesday, June 10, 6:30-9:30pm To protect the safety and health of our Board Directors and our owners during the COVID-19 pandemic, Board meetings are being conducted online via zoom. Owners are invited to attend. To attend the meeting, please register by 8 am, Tuesday, June 9: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W_p5QEBkTuOt61of9DwGIA After registering,…
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Last week, in the driving rain our Round Up partners PORCH Chapel Hill Carrboro and PORCH Hillsborough delivered 240 boxes of fresh produce to families struggling with food insecurity—190 families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro and 50 families in Hillsborough. Over 1,000 individuals have nutritious fresh fruit and vegetables because of your Round up donations…
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By Brenda Camp, Community Outreach We’ve reported the challenges our round up partners face as they work to provide food for the kids and families they serve under the ever-changing constraints of the pandemic. This week, our team of bread bakers eagerly embraced a new weekly challenge—to add 670 half-loaves of oat bread to their…
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Since Weaver Street Market has switched to selling Red Hawk salad greens, we’ve reduced our reliance on fragile produce supply chains from the West Coast, decreased the carbon emissions of transport, and strengthened our local food economy.
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We’re excited to bring our customers face masks made at Harriss & Covington Hosiery Mills in High Point, NC. Working together with the mill and our employee wellness partner, EHOP Health, we’re supplying these masks to our employees, and to you. About the Project We want to keep our employees as safe as possible, and…
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