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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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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.

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Local Vendor Spotlight: The Juice Room

Sometimes, our new favorite local vendor has been operating right under our noses.

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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,...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local 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...

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Local(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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