There will be a holiday market this Saturday, November 21, from 10 until 2. Over 40 vendors will participate in this market with everything from baked goods to local meat to jewelry and home decorations. There will be goat cheese, fresh homemade pasta, hand crafted soaps and candles, pottery, and a good supply of late season vegetables.

There will even be live trees, wreaths and roping.

The weather is expected to be much warmer and prettier than the snowy days we had last year and the selection is much larger. We welcome everyone to come out and visit with us. If you wil be unable to be there this Saturday, there will also be another great market on the following Saturday, November 28.

Find us at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

You just never know about the weather. All indications pointed to another dreary day last Saturday, but we were all surprised with a beautiful day. We are all hoping for similar conditions for this last regular market this weekend and also for the two holiday markets in November, but we will be there regardless of the weather and hope you will too.

The warm season vegetables have mostly submitted to the cold but there are still plenty of tasty selections for enjoying over the coming winter. Dawn Rhudy has all cuts of fresh lamb each week and farm fresh eggs from happy chickens. Susan Wright of Shady Grove Gardens will have 'Lady Godiva' naked seed pumpkins which are great for roasted pumpkin seeds, along with red Cinderella pumpkins. Goldenrod Gardens will have autumn wreaths, spinach, arugula, lettuce, cilantro, parsley and possibly some jalapenos.

Charles Church of Watauga River Farms will be bringing hot and mild sausage, ribs, chops, backbones, broccoli, beets, onions, parsnips, daikon radishes, herbs, garlic, winter squash, carrots and red and Yukon gold potatoes. Jeff Thomas of Creeksong Farm will have all-natural beef which is 95 percent grass fed. This weekend at the market Ann Rose of Rose Mountain Farm will have fresh pork sausage, pork chops, rib racks, shoulder stew cuts and loin roast and also from the green house arugula, chives, chard, and a small amount of rosemary, oregano, and marjoram. Jason brooks will have some grass fed, grass finished steaks, ground patties, ground beef and roasts of all kinds. It has been a great year for grass feed beef because of all the rain, and everything is at the peak of flavor right now.

Christmas is less than two months away, so don't forget the fine hand crafts available at Watauga County Farmers' Market when you are planning your holiday gift giving. There are plenty of talented artists displaying their wares including Mark Murrey with his wood fired porcelain pottery and Maloo Haynes and her action skirts for yoga, biking and running, cozy knitted and crocheted hats and scarves, yoga mat carriers, cloth covered journals, and other funky gifts made from recycled and reclaimed materials.

EBT transactions have been going without a hitch. If you or someone you know Has an EBT card we encourage it's use, please stop by the manager's booth.

The market will have one more regular Saturday morning market. After that there will be holiday markets on the Saturday before and after Thanksgiving, November 21 and 28, from 10 until 2. Find us at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

The Watauga County Farmers' Market will continue on Saturdays through the end of October. Home games have not affected out parking at all and there were plenty of spots for customers. The market will once again have holiday markets on the Saturday before and after Thanksgiving, November 21 and 28, from 10 until 2. We hope everyone will be able to come out and see the great things we have planned.

This Saturday Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will be offering spicy arugula, purple cauliflower, beautiful beets and a luscious lettuce mix. Dawn Rhudy will have all cuts of lamb this week and also farm fresh eggs. Susan Wright of Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will bring Halloween colored lilies, lots of hydrangeas and globe amaranth to dry, snowberries, orange and red holly, as well as big sweet yellow storage onions, winter squash, sweet red Italian peppers and heirloom 'Ashe County Pimento' peppers.

The Pasta Wench will have a new fall flavor for the non-dairy crowd, a Roasted Acorn Squash with Brown Sugar with Pecans ravioli, along with her fall favorites Butternut Squash with Carmelized Pear ravioli and the soon to be famous Great Pumpkin Ravioli.

Harmony Acres Soap Company will have great holiday gift baskets featuring handmade natural soaps, lip balms, lotions and all natural deodorants. Christmas Tree Soaps will also be available along with plenty of smiling faces.

Pottery artist Caron Baker Wike will have lots of new pottery leaves in fall colors large and small. She will also have a good selection of lace platters and bowls for your holiday shopping. Choose from a large selection while they are available. The new 2009 Angel is now offered to add to your collection.

Join us at the market on Saturday October 24 at 11:30 for the International Day of Climate Action group photo to be presented to world leaders at the United Nations. This will be a opportunity to add your voice to the call for serious action in Copenhagen to reduce carbon emissions and limit global warming. The photo will be taken at high noon. This event is taking place in thousands of locations all over the world. For more information, visit www.350.org.

EBT transactions have been going without a hitch. If you or someone you know Has an EBT card we encourage it's use, please stop by the manager's booth.

Find us every Saturday morning at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

The Watauga County Farmers' Market will continue on Saturdays through the end of October. We are grateful for the nice weather at almost all of the markets this season, and even for the past Saturday when the rain held off until almost quitting time. Once again the home game did not affect out parking at all and there were plenty of spots for customers. The market will once again have holiday markets on the Saturday before and after Thanksgiving, November 21 and 28, from 10 until 2. We hope everyone will be able to come out and see the great things we have planned.

This Saturday the 17th will be the Appalachian Crafts Day with live music provided by the South Fork Cane Cutters. Watauga County Farmers' Market has a great group of local hand crafters, among them Earth Harmonies' jewelers Amantha And Ryon Calhoun who will have plenty of new autumn necklaces, fun holiday earrings, and also wire wrapped hair barrettes.

Springhouse Farm will be back with an assortment of hand-picked leaf lettuce, pumpkins including pie pumpkins with mom's delicious pumpkin bread recipe, Brussels sprouts, kale, and a variety of peppers, including the hot paper lantern. Springhouse Farm uses no pesticides on the produce. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will have spicy arugula, mixed lettuce, beets, spinach and beautiful purple cauliflower. Unless we get a real frost, Fog Likely Farm will have the last Roma beans of the season, lots of pristine arugula, cilantro and watercress.

Matt Cooper of Lively Up Farm will be harvesting plenty of Butternut, Red Kuri and Spaghetti Winter Squash, kale Dino and All Blue and Kennebec potatoes. Susan Wright of Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will bring what will most likely be the last of the summer flowers, lots of Hydrangeas and globe amaranth to dry, snowberries and orange holly, as well as great sweet yellow storage onions and winter squash.

The Pasta Wench will bring along her famous Butternut Squash with Carmelized Pear & Garlic ravioli this week, along with the popular Great Pumpkin Seasonal ravioli - yum!

Join us at the market on Saturday October 24 at 11:30 for the International Day of Climate Action group photo to be presented to world leaders at the United Nations. This will be a opportunity to add your voice to the call for serious action in Copenhagen to reduce carbon emissions and limit global warming. The photo will be taken at high noon. This event is taking place in thousands of locations all over the world. For more information, visit www.350.org.

EBT transactions have been going without a hitch. If you or someone you know Has an EBT card we encourage it's use, please stop by the manager's booth.

Find us every Saturday morning at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

The cooler temperatures around the area have brought on the harvest of late season crops such as pumpkins and apples while still allowing for many varieties of peppers and some great looking greens. The market will continue every Saturday in October with new selections every week.

Springhouse Farm will have a large selection of hand-picked leaf lettuce including red and green romaine, seven leaf mix, mesclun mix and butterhead. They also will have Mystic Plus pie pumpkins and delicious pumpkin bread recipes to give out. Mountain Memories Farm will have farm fresh eggs and lamb with all cuts available. Make your holiday orders now to insure you have just what you need.

Watauga River Farms will have pork sausage, hot and mild, side meat, pork chops and backbones, broccoli, potatoes, garlic, beans, cabbage and onions.Rose Mountain Farm will have fresh pork in the form of chops, sausage hot and mild, ground ham, side meat, soup bones for stock, loin roast 2-3 pounds each and ribs. Ann will also have Shiitake logs for Christmas gifts with directions for care and fresh apple cider by the cup.

Ron and Suzanne Joyner of Big Horse Creek Farm will have a good selection of many different varieties of antique and heirloom apple trees yielding fruit perfect for fresh-eating, long-keepers, cider, cooking or baking. All the trees will be one-year-old, priced at $20 each and ready for fall transplanting.

The quality crafts found at Watauga County Farmers' Market always promise some great finds, but with the holidays right around the corner it is a good time to start looking for decorations and gifts. The Quilting Biddys will have Christmas goods such as stockings, table runners, napkins and wall hangings. Katy Wilson will have hand crafted, one of a kind gemstone necklaces, earrings and bracelets.

EBT transactions have been going without a hitch. If you or someone you know Has an EBT card we encourage it's use, please stop by the manager's booth.

Find us every Saturday morning at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

Saturdays at Watauga County Farmers' Market have been extremely pleasant overall, and everyone was pleased that this past Saturday's drizzle did not give way to heavy morning until almost afternoon. As always we appreciate everyone who came out to help us make it a good day.

On this next market Saturday Watauga River Farms will have hot and mild pork sausage, side meat and fatback, backbones for super crockpot meals or to grill, porkchops, broccoli, red and Yukon Gold potatoes onions, boxed or bunched, herbs, chard, collards, yellow squash, garlic for eating or planting, chestnuts, carrots, beets, peppers, stringless green beans and yellow wax beans. Shady Grove Gardens and Nursery will be bringing white and orange decorative mini pumpkins, mini turban decorative squash, sweet red Italian roasting peppers and large yellow storage onions, all grown without inorganic sprays. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm have sweet snow peas, beautiful beets, spinach and luscious lettuce.

Mountain Memories Farm will be offering lots of lamb and farm fresh eggs. The lamb is fresh each week and this week's special will be $1 off per pound of every cut. All cuts will be available. As for the eggs -- same as always from free range happy chickens!

There is a great variety of prepared food at every market ranging from freshly cooked items for the evening meal to treats suitable for storing and enjoying over winter. Bella Rooster recently added muscadine jelly to the lineup of jams and jellies and fresh baked biscotti. The Pasta Wench will have her scrumptious Great Pumpkin Ravioli again this week, they were sold out quickly last week and are a lovely savory/sweet treat for fall.

Watauga County Farmers' Market would like to encourage everyone to bring their own bags to hold their purchases. Plastic bags not only pollute the very ground that our food comes from when they are made and when they are discarded, but they are an extra expense to the farmers. We do appreciate that many of you are already doing this.

Find us every Saturday morning and on Wednesday afternoons from 4-7 at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

Faith Mountain Farm is celebrating the change of seasons with a fall decoration special: 1 corn shock, 2 pumpkins, 4 small pumpkins or gourds, and 1 bunch of zinnias or sunflowers. There will also be plenty of your favorite granola, cranberry pecan scones, cinnamon rolls, and fresh whole grain breads. Just across the way Mountain Memories Farm will be having a special on lamb racks this Saturday, at two dollars a pound off. They will also have farm fresh eggs from happy free range chickens, natural and healthy lamb fresh processed this week and all cuts available without antibiotics or hormones.

Watauga River Farms will have plenty of hot and mild sausage, pork chops, ribs, carrots, lettuce, collards, lambsquarters, spinach, chard, garlic for eating and for planting, stringless green beans, squash, onions, loofah gourds, cabbage and red and Yukon gold potatoes. Jeff Thomas of Creeksong Farm will have the first picking of stringless green beans, baby lettuce, spinach, and a new supply of our all natural beef, which is 95% grass fed. Ann Rose of Rose Mountain Farm will have fresh pork chops, ground, ribs, sausage hot and mild, whole chickens and mixed herbs.

AB Farms will have deliciously healthy wheatgrass shots and flats, luscious red and green peppers both hot and sweet, colorful fall gourds and pumpkins, sweet red and gold beets, an assorted variety of plump potatoes, and many other tasty treats.

Watauga County Farmers' Market would like to encourage everyone to bring their own bags to hold their purchases. Plastic bags not only pollute the very ground that our food comes from when they are made and when they are discarded, but they are an extra expense to the farmers. We do appreciate that many of you are already doing this.

Find us every Saturday morning and on Wednesday afternoons from 4-7 at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

The folks at Watauga County Farmers' Market are pleased to report there were plenty of parking spaces for customers despite there being a home football game at ASU last Saturday. We would like to thank The Town of Boone for managing he parking lot and allowing us to have a successful market day.

This Saturday Sheri Castle will hold her annual cooking demonstration at the market featuring vegetables selected from various vendors. Samples and recipes will be available. There will also be live music provided by Southern Exposure.

Watauga River Farms will have plenty of new sausage, chops, ribs, and also red and Yukon potatoes, onions, garlic, spinach and other greens. Mountain Memories Farm will have fresh cuts of lamb this Saturday, grass fed with no hormones or antibiotics, all natural and healthy for you. Cuts include loin chops, rib chops, shoulder chops, racks, leg steaks, whole legs or half with the bone in or butterflied ready for the grill, shoulder roasts, shanks, ground and sausage (seasoned as a breakfast sausage), cube for stew or kabobs, BBQ ribs and even dog bones. You can order a whole or half and it is processed each week so it is always fresh. You will also find farm fresh eggs from happy free range chickens. If there is a special order please call or email us at 276-655-4744 or mark.dawnrhudy@yahoo.com.

Shady Grove Gardens will have numerous berries, salmon Viburnum, Cranberry Viburnum, orange holly, white, green and pink snowberries. Plants for the pink snowberries will be available as well as the new 'Incrediball'™ Hydrangea, an extra large 'Annabelle' type hydrangea.

The Pasta Wench will be offering her new flavors for fall, including the Pan Seared Apple with Brie, and the Great Pumpkin ravioli. Don't miss the chocolate and pecan pie dessert ravioli - decadent!

The Quilting Bittys will have new items for Holiday giving, including wall hangings, holiday napkins and placemats, new quilts and novelty gifts. There is even a Teddy Bear made from feed sacks! Come see us for gifts you will not find in a department store.

Find us every Saturday morning and on Wednesday afternoons from 4-7 at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

This Saturday at Watauga County Farmers' Market Moretz Mountain Orchard will have a great selection of kiwi, basil, melons, corn, lots of apple varieties, Oriental okra, raspberries winter squash and pumpkins. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will be bringing arugula, spinach, delicious Delicata squash, heirloom tomatoes, Buttercrunch lettuce, golden zucchini, patty pan squash and beautiful purple and orange cauliflower. If you haven't tried Roma Green Beans, you are missing something special. Fog Likely Farm will have plenty of them, along with Silver Queen corn and some interesting new wood and metal planters.

Find Rose Mountain Farm at the Wednesday markets with pork chops, stew cuts, ground pork, Shiitake logs and Shiitakes.

It is peak season for bright, cheerful colored zinnias, bodacious dahlias and impressive pink 'Little Lamb' hydrangeas; all cut flowers available from Shady Grove Gardens and Nursery. "Flowers always make it better."

Rebecca at Back Yard Bakery has seasonal tomato pies made form locally grown tomatoes. She also has those yummy country ham biscuits, using ham from local company Goodnight Brothers. Come see Rebecca for sweet and not-so-sweet morning goodies. Don't forget that kids special: a cookie and small drink for $1. If you need a pie of cake or a large box of cookies for your Labor Day picnic, call Rebecca to order at 828-264-1440.

Help us pay for our parking lot! The top prize in the care2.com "love your farmers' market" contest is 5,000, which would help us out with our commitment to reserving the entire parking lot for our customers. The top market right now is in Michigan, and we all know we can come from behind to beat them. Vote for Watauga County Farmers' Market at http://www.care2.com/farmersmarket/4668 and please leave comments as well.

Find us every Saturday morning and on Wednesday afternoons from 4-7 at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

This Saturday at Watauga County Farmers' Market will bring heirloom tomatoes, broccoli, purple cauliflower, lettuce and arugula Zydeco Moon Organic Farm, more fat sweet Danvers half long carrots, Clemson spineless okra, cranberry pecan scones, whole grain breads from freshly milled flour, and honey from Faith Mountain Farm, and pesticide-free acorn & butternut squash, fresh
young lettuce, basil, green beans & honey from Springhouse Farm. Lively Up Farm will have all blue potatoes, tomatillos, Dino kale, acorn squash and garlic.

Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will have snowberries both as cut flowers and the Pink Amethyst plants for sale. Cut snowberries will be white, green or pink.

The Pasta Wench has two new additions this week, "Let them eat Garlic" a special creation for all those garlic lovers out there - this is your ravioli. Also, for the Gluten Free crowd, we will have our un-ravioli - delicious! Yummy weekly updates at www.PastaWench.com. ecrandal will be offering cookie decorating for children of all ages on Saturday. With the purchase of a cookie, your child (or you) will be able to make his or her own beautifully delicious creation. Come and join in the fun! While you're there, take a look at the hundreds of exciting cutter designs we offer. If you don't see what you are looking for, we can create your design for you!

Help us pay for our parking lot! The top prize in the care2.com "love your farmers' market" contest is 5,000, which would help us out with our commitment to reserving the entire parking lot for our customers. The top market right now is in Michigan, and we all know we can come from behind to beat them. Vote for Watauga County Farmers' Market at http://www.care2.com/farmersmarket/4668 and please leave comments as well.

Find us every Saturday morning and on Wednesday afternoons from 4-7 at the Horn in the West in Boone. Turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Call WCFM manager Karen Bauman at 1-828-355-4918 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!