Local Vendor Spotlight: Stryker Fams
Stryker Farms provides Weavers Way stores with pork from heritage-breed pigs, as well as goat meat, all from animals raised to the highest standards and treated humanely. Nolan Thevenet grew up in the...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Philly Muffin
While it may only be a year and a half since we started carrying Philly Muffin at the Co-op, many of us can hardly remember the bakery shelves without it. If you haven’t tried one of Pete Merzbacher’s...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Wholesome Dairy Farms
Mark Lopez wants you to eat more fat. His rich raw milk and mouthwatering dairy products make a convincing argument.
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: The Juice Room
Sometimes, our new favorite local vendor has been operating right under our noses.
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Henry Got Crops Honey
Next to the fabulous produce we get from our own Weavers Way Farms, there are few products to be more excited about than our very own honey!It’s straight from the hives at Henry Got Crops, which...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Local Cheeses
Here at Weavers Way, we are truly lucky to be within two hours of some of the most fertile farmland in the country. This allows us great access to artisan producers, especially local cheesemakers. As a...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Profiles: Tap Into the Kombucha Craze
Among the unique staples of our Mount Airy store is the Kombucha Kegerator, a tap upstairs in the Bulk Department where shoppers can fill their bottles with an ever-rotating selection of the finest...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Profile: Mycopolitan Mushrooms
Hidden from the human eye, vast underground networks of interconnecting organisms thrive. These cities of mushrooms — “mycopolitans” — are held together by mycelia, the threads that link fungi...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Profile: Merrymead Farm
A certain kind of charm and sweet, simple nostalgia resides at Merrymead Farm— the kind that is generated by friendly employees who earnestly believe in the work they do and in the support for their...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Anita's Guacamole
About a dozen years ago, Mauricio Mendez’s grandmother began making guacamole and selling it at farmers markets in South Florida. Mauricio helped out, learned his grandmother’s recipe for guacamole,...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Fruitwood Orchards
With agriculture dominated by mega-producers, it’s reassuring to find a favorite product packaged and distributed by a local family business. One example: Fruitwood Orchards in South Jersey, which...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Brine Street Picklery
by Jacqueline Boulden, for the ShuttleBreaking into the booming specialty food area isn’t easy, and it takes much more than having something good to eat.“First, we came up with a great name,” said...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Valley Milkhouse Creamery
We are lucky to be alive for the local cheese movement! In the not-so-distant past, most U.S.-made cheese came from factories in the Midwest. Now Southeastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding area has...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Backyard Beans
Backyard Beans Coffee Company started with husband-and-wife team Laura and Matt Adams roasting small batches of coffee beans in their backyard. Today, Backyard Beans is a flourishing business with a...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Noreen's Cookies
Baked goods seem to be on a first-name basis with customers at Weavers Way, judging from a quick survey of labels on the shelves. Among them is Noreen’s, a line of bars, cookies and loaf cakes that...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Breakaway Farms
Weavers Way is proud to introduce a new meat supplier, Breakaway Farms.Breakaway, Lancaster County, practices the gold standard of sustainable agriculture: Farmer Nathan Thomas raises free-range cattle...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Crust Vegan Bakery
If ever there was a match made in baking heaven, then Meagan Benz and Shannon Roche are it. These entrepreneurial women, who opened their wholesale Crust Vegan Bakery three years ago, share parallel...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Profiles: Local Cheesemakers
Here at Weavers Way, we are truly lucky to be within two hours of some of the most fertile farmland in the country. This allows us great access to artisan producers, especially local cheesemakers. As a...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Profile: Fresh Tofu
In its heyday, Allentown, PA, was the home of Mack Trucks’ main assembly plant, a sprawling industrial complex in the south side of the city that straddled 10th Street from Harrison all the way down to...
View ArticleLocal(ly Connected) Vendor Profile: Bee Boys
Don’t pity the poor Bee Boys. Main Line natives Ryan Williamson and Kevin O’Connor were more or less forced to return to their property on the Big Island of Hawaii two years ago to continue their hive...
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