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 fermented flavors Philadelphia has to offer. Our draft kombucha comes courtesy of Inspired Brews and Food and Ferments, two small businesses dedicated to perfecting the art of fermentation.
There are plenty of opportunities to help right in your neighborhood.
WWCP's Annual Appeal benefits their work with young people and Stenton Family Manor.
Weavers Way Community Programs needs your help to ensure their unique and life-changing programming remains constant in 2016. WWCP’s goal is to raise $31,000 in the month of December — $1,000 per day — to continue to provide farm and nutrition education to some of Philadelphia’s most vulnerable residents. Working at MLK High School with young people with autism and intellectual disabilities, getting teens at Saul out of the classroom and into the dirt at the Henry Got Crops Farm, and nurturing young people and parents alike through diverse programming at Stenton Family Manor — WWCP can’t do it without your support. Visit www.weaversway.coop/wwcp. to learn more about WWCP's programs. Please give today!
Sponsor a classroom at Saul High School.
W.B. Saul High School for Agricultural Sciences is a truly unique public school and home to one of our farms and the Henry Got Crops CSA. Students gain hands-on experience in small-scale organic farming, and Weavers Way Community Programs provides additional learning opportunities. Teachers are in need of supplies!
Ms. McAtamney’s Land Judging class is in need of a clinometer.
Mr. Izirarry’s LGBTQ Club is in need of notebooks for journaling.
Ms. Lovelace and Ms. Bright’s Art Club is need of art supplies; gift cards from Michael’s or other craft stores would be most appreciated!
Ms. Turrentine’s Small Animal Class is in need of paper towels, hand soap and antibacterial cleaner solution
Ms Creighton's PE class is need of heavy dumbbells 20lb+, or any fitness equipment.
Other needs range from paper towels, latex gloves, scotch/masking tape, markers and colored pencils — we'll have a box at 555 Carpenter Lane — to push brooms, rakes and scoop shovels. Want the complete list? Download the PDF. Want more info? Contact Weavers Way Outreach Coordinator Bettina de Caumette, outreach@weaversway.coop or 215-843-2350, ext. 118. Want to make a cash gift? Donations to the Saul High School Alumni Association are tax-deductible.
Bring a kid a new book.
Valley Green Bank's annual Holiday Book Drive for Kids benefits the Mt Airy Schools Coalition, Mastery Charter, Wissahickon Charter School and Philadelphia Health Center No. 9. Bring new or gently used preschool-8th grade books to the Mt. Airy or Chestnut Hill store, or purchase and donate a book at Big Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane, and get 10% off!
Help a needy senior.
Unitarian Universalist House Outreach helps older adults remain independent in their own homes. During the holiday season, UUH will deliver much-needed groceries in Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, Germantown, West Oak Lane and East Falls. Bins for donations are available in the Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy stores. They would appreciate donations of:
Canned tuna
Canned soup
Canned fruit
Canned vegetables
Pasta
Rice
Beans
Cereal
Smaller serving sizes and reduced-sodium items are preferred. For more information about UU House Outreach, or to make a tax-deductible cash donation, visit uuhoutreach.org or call 215-843-5881.
There are plenty of opportunities to help right in your neighborhood.
WWCP's Annual Appeal benefits their work with young people and Stenton Family Manor.
Weavers Way Community Programs needs your help to ensure their unique and life-changing programming remains constant in 2016. WWCP’s goal is to raise $31,000 in the month of December — $1,000 per day — to continue to provide farm and nutrition education to some of Philadelphia’s most vulnerable residents. Working at MLK High School with young people with autism and intellectual disabilities, getting teens at Saul out of the classroom and into the dirt at the Henry Got Crops Farm, and nurturing young people and parents alike through diverse programming at Stenton Family Manor — WWCP can’t do it without your support. Visit www.weaversway.coop/wwcp. to learn more about WWCP's programs. Please give today!
Sponsor a classroom at Saul High School.
W.B. Saul High School for Agricultural Sciences is a truly unique public school and home to one of our farms and the Henry Got Crops CSA. Students gain hands-on experience in small-scale organic farming, and Weavers Way Community Programs provides additional learning opportunities. Teachers are in need of supplies!
Ms. McAtamney’s Land Judging class is in need of a clinometer.
Mr. Izirarry’s LGBTQ Club is in need of notebooks for journaling.
Ms. Lovelace and Ms. Bright’s Art Club is need of art supplies; gift cards from Michael’s or other craft stores would be most appreciated!
Ms. Turrentine’s Small Animal Class is in need of paper towels, hand soap and antibacterial cleaner solution
Ms Creighton's PE class is need of heavy dumbbells 20lb+, or any fitness equipment.
Other needs range from paper towels, latex gloves, scotch/masking tape, markers and colored pencils — we'll have a box at 555 Carpenter Lane — to push brooms, rakes and scoop shovels. Want the complete list? Download the PDF. Want more info? Contact Weavers Way Outreach Coordinator Bettina de Caumette, outreach@weaversway.coop or 215-843-2350, ext. 118. Want to make a cash gift? Donations to the Saul High School Alumni Association are tax-deductible.
Bring a kid a new book.
Valley Green Bank's annual Holiday Book Drive for Kids benefits the Mt Airy Schools Coalition, Mastery Charter, Wissahickon Charter School and Philadelphia Health Center No. 9. Bring new or gently used preschool-8th grade books to the Mt. Airy or Chestnut Hill store, or purchase and donate a book at Big Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane, and get 10% off!
Help a needy senior.
Unitarian Universalist House Outreach helps older adults remain independent in their own homes. During the holiday season, UUH will deliver much-needed groceries in Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, Germantown, West Oak Lane and East Falls. Bins for donations are available in the Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy stores. They would appreciate donations of:
Canned tuna
Canned soup
Canned fruit
Canned vegetables
Pasta
Rice
Beans
Cereal
Smaller serving sizes and reduced-sodium items are preferred. For more information about UU House Outreach, or to make a tax-deductible cash donation, visit uuhoutreach.org or call 215-843-5881.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30, 2015 — Bad luck for Weavers Way generated some good fortune for area food banks Monday, as a power outage that darkened the main Co-op store in Chestnut Hill prompted the giveaway of thousands of dollars worth of food that would otherwise have gone to waste.
Power went out at the 8424 Germantown Ave. location of the Northwest Philadelphia cooperative grocery about 4:15 a.m., according to General Manager Jon Roesser, who spent much of the day working with staffers to transport perishables into temporary storage and into the hands of local outfits that redistribute food to the needy.
Co-op staffers scrambled to get produce, meat, seafood and dairy trucked to refrigerated storage at the Weavers Way warehouse in Nicetown and packed into the still-cold walk-ins in Chestnut Hill. With a load of dry ice, Roesser reported that temperatures were holding in the Chestnut Hill coolers.
That left frozen food and products already out in the prepared foods cases to be given to the food pantries.
“We immediately got on the phone with our friends at Philabundance and they got on the phone with their friends who have food pantries,” Roesser said. “Basically, a dozen people dropped everything to come over here and get what we had before it went bad.”
As Therman Keel and Kenneth Cooper loaded boxes of frozen vegetables into a van, Keel explained that their food bank, at Grace Tabernacle Christian Church in Southwest Philadelphia, has plenty of storage capacity. “But this will all be gone by this afternoon,” Keel said, chuckling.
Volunteers from Face to Face Germantown, who visit the Chestnut Hill store almost daily to collect bread, produce, prepared food and meat that otherwise would be discarded, also found themselves boxing up frozen food. Tom Laughlin and Bob Rossman were driving it immediately to St. Vincent’s Roman Catholic Church in Germantown for use in its soup kitchen.
Other beneficiaries were the Food Cupboard (Loaves and Fishes) at Jenkintown United Methodist Church, 2 Fish 5 Loaves Food Ministry at Upper Room Missionary Baptist Church in West Oak Lane and the food pantry at the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Oxford Village in Lawndale.
Roesser said he and his team have been working on a backup generator strategy for both stores since a major outage in Chestnut Hill in August. “We said let’s get the ball rolling, and we’ve actually been making progress — we had a structural engineer in the week before Thanksgiving and we have solicited bids,” said Roesser.
The August outage, which resulted in the loss of all perishable product in the Chestnut Hill store, was the result of a PECO error, but as of Monday afternoon, the cause of the latest outage was still unknown.
PECO spokesman Greg Smore said the utility had determined the problem was “an underground equipment issue” isolated to the immediate area of the store. An excavating crew was on site and Smore said the work was expected to go on into Monday night.
Roesser estimated the value of the donated food at $6,000-$7,000. Monday sales in the Chestnut Hill store have been averaging more than $30,000, according to Weavers Way Finance Manager Susan Beetle.
About Weavers Way: With stores in Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill, the Co-op is member-owned, open to the public and committed to offering quality products that are local, sustainable and nutritious. For more information, visit www.weaversway.coop.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30, 2015 — Bad luck for Weavers Way generated some good fortune for area food banks Monday, as a power outage that darkened the main Co-op store in Chestnut Hill prompted the giveaway of thousands of dollars worth of food that would otherwise have gone to waste.
Power went out at the 8424 Germantown Ave. location of the Northwest Philadelphia cooperative grocery about 4:15 a.m., according to General Manager Jon Roesser, who spent much of the day working with staffers to transport perishables into temporary storage and into the hands of local outfits that redistribute food to the needy.
Co-op staffers scrambled to get produce, meat, seafood and dairy trucked to refrigerated storage at the Weavers Way warehouse in Nicetown and packed into the still-cold walk-ins in Chestnut Hill. With a load of dry ice, Roesser reported that temperatures were holding in the Chestnut Hill coolers.
That left frozen food and products already out in the prepared foods cases to be given to the food pantries.
“We immediately got on the phone with our friends at Philabundance and they got on the phone with their friends who have food pantries,” Roesser said. “Basically, a dozen people dropped everything to come over here and get what we had before it went bad.”
As Therman Keel and Kenneth Cooper loaded boxes of frozen vegetables into a van, Keel explained that their food bank, at Grace Tabernacle Christian Church in Southwest Philadelphia, has plenty of storage capacity. “But this will all be gone by this afternoon,” Keel said, chuckling.
Volunteers from Face to Face Germantown, who visit the Chestnut Hill store almost daily to collect bread, produce, prepared food and meat that otherwise would be discarded, also found themselves boxing up frozen food. Tom Laughlin and Bob Rossman were driving it immediately to St. Vincent’s Roman Catholic Church in Germantown for use in its soup kitchen.
Other beneficiaries were the Food Cupboard (Loaves and Fishes) at Jenkintown United Methodist Church, 2 Fish 5 Loaves Food Ministry at Upper Room Missionary Baptist Church in West Oak Lane and the food pantry at the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Oxford Village in Lawndale.
Roesser said he and his team have been working on a backup generator strategy for both stores since a major outage in Chestnut Hill in August. “We said let’s get the ball rolling, and we’ve actually been making progress — we had a structural engineer in the week before Thanksgiving and we have solicited bids,” said Roesser.
The August outage, which resulted in the loss of all perishable product in the Chestnut Hill store, was the result of a PECO error, but as of Monday afternoon, the cause of the latest outage was still unknown.
PECO spokesman Greg Smore said the utility had determined the problem was “an underground equipment issue” isolated to the immediate area of the store. An excavating crew was on site and Smore said the work was expected to go on into Monday night.
Roesser estimated the value of the donated food at $6,000-$7,000. Monday sales in the Chestnut Hill store have been averaging more than $30,000, according to Weavers Way Finance Manager Susan Beetle.
About Weavers Way: With stores in Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill, the Co-op is member-owned, open to the public and committed to offering quality products that are local, sustainable and nutritious. For more information, visit www.weaversway.coop.
That very spicy stuff Ted Ebert and Tom Hewell want you to sprinkle on your potatoes, and pizza and well, anything, began as a hobby when they were roommates in Manayunk.
