Two weeks ago we drove up to Bahama to visit Carolina Farmhouse Dairy. We watched as the herd of eight cows was let out onto a new, grassy pasture, saw the milking parlor and the incubation room where the cultured milk sits for two days as it becomes yogurt, and watched as Erin and Brandon…
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Farm Tour Tees from Dirt to Shirt
All of our teeshirts, including the annual Piedmont Farm Tour tee, are printed in Burlington at TSDesigns. TSDesigns has worked to revive the North Carolina textile industry, creating a local supply chain for the entire process of making a teeshirt. By not shipping cotton to China to be made into a tee, the transportation footprint…
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Avocado Oil Is Here
We now carry San Lucas avocado oil. Avocado oil is great for frying foods (as well as roasting and other forms of baking) because it has a high smoke point of around 500 °F. (For comparison, refined [high heat] canola oil’s smoke point is about 400 °F, and olive oil’s can be even lower.) At…
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North Carolina Bottled Waters
We now source bottled water from Old Saratoga, Inc., a family-owned company in Saratoga, NC. The water is bottled under the brand names White Oak Water and Natural Alkaline Water. The company draws its water from the Black Creek Aquifer, located in the coastal plains of North Carolina; their office is at the north side…
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WSM Kitchen Produces High-Quality, House-Made Products
Weaver Street Market is more than a grocery store. We are the largest producer of locally made foods in Orange County. Our 27,000-square-foot Food House facility in Hillsborough houses a commercial kitchen, a meat processing facility, a bread and bagel bakery, a pastry bakery, and warehouse facilities. Our Food House kitchen produces more than 300…
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Special Delivery: Mad River Blue
This week’s Special Delivery cheese is the awesome Mad River Blue, a certified organic raw cow’s milk blue cheese from Von Trapp Farmstead in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
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We’ve carried Seal the Seasons products since their inception, and are looking to help them expand production by distributing a very short survey for them. If you buy frozen fruits and vegetables, please check out their survey.
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“From the cow to the shelf in three days,” Cindy Hamrick said, trying out a possible slogan for the fresh yogurt made daily on her family’s farm in Bahama. Carolina Farmhouse Dairy’s organic cream-top yogurt is the first North Carolina yogurt we’ve ever had and is now in stores. We drove out to visit the…
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It’s Maple Harvest Time
It may feel like summer in the Triangle, but we’re glad it’s still early spring in the northern states where our maple syrup is harvested. The farmers of Maple Valley Co-op are in the throes of maple season, with warm days (which cause the sap to rise) and cold nights (which cause it to run…
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Spring Wine Sale is Here
The Spring Wine Sale is here! From March 30 to April 27, we’ll have 35 wines on sale at deeply discounted prices, up to 58% off. This season’s sale includes 10 organic wines, 6 co-op produced wines, and 4 fair trade wines. Click here for the list of wines on sale. Come to one of our three wine shows…
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