Community Owned Natural Foods Grocery
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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Our Community Food Partners have very quickly responded to the COVID-19 threat and have reorganized their operations to provide hunger relief during the pandemic for a rapidly increasing population that is at risk for food insecurity. PORCH Chapel Hill-Carrboro and PORCH Hillsborough. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, our food partners at PORCH provided monthly deliveries…
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Wild Hare Farm in Cedar Grove and Split Acre Farm in Rougemont are two of the farms that grow many of the cut flowers sold in our stores. An abundance of cut tulips arrive in stores Wednesday March 18, just in time for the first day of spring. During this week of “peak tulip,” we’ve…
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Would you like to join one of our worker owner/consumer owner teams? We have openings on the Elections Committee (EC), which oversees the election process, and on the Cooperative Community Fund (CCF) Grant Committee, which administers the CCF grant review process. The EC is seeking one consumer or worker owner, preferably from Raleigh. The CCF…
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Here is our March Veggies for Breakfast recipe. Green is the color of March and the color of a healthy breakfast! Get more greens in your day with this tasty, toasty grilled cheese – a traditional comfort food with a healthy twist!
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St. Patrick’s Day is coming, and that means our March favorites are back. Pastries This year, our pastry bakers are making several treats throughout March: Irish oat scones are in stores Wednesdays and Saturdays. And daily, look for miniature Bailey’s Irish Cream cheesecake and Blarney Stone whoopie pies. Shamrocks Potted shamrocks arrive on the 2nd….
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Quick-frozen seafood preserves the freshness and nutrition of the catch, reduces food waste, and enables local fishermen to sell their harvest year round.
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Last week, 80 Raleigh owners participated in a round table dinner and discussion with Weaver Street’s board members and Raleigh store managers. It was great to hear what they liked, and especially to learn about how we can improve and do better.
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