Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning July 24

Wednesday July 28 from 3 - 6PM

These are some fine looking carrots, don't you think?

Watauga County Farmers' Market will begin accepting food donations on Saturdays for food insecure individuals and families. The Society of St. Andrews will be collecting and distributing the donations to local help organizations. Our farmers have been donating surplus produce for quite some time, and we would like to offer you the opportunity to help as well. You may also donate any extras you may have from your own garden. A cooler will be placed at the manager's stand for any donations.

During the month of August we will be photographing our customer's market baskets. Afterwards the photos will be shown on the website for voting. The 12 top rated baskets will go into a market calender.

Vendor of the week: Doug Hutchinson
Doug and Tammy Hutchinson not only enhance the market with tasty organic vegetables and bright flower arrangements, but they also sell colorful chicken eggs by the dozen.

We are having a very good selection of fresh produce on Wednesday, stop by for a mid - week fix.The Wednesday afternoon markets are from 3 to 6 with plenty of local produce and food. We hope to see you there.

There will be an abundance of local produce at the next Watauga County Farmers' Market. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will offer heirloom tomatoes such as Valencia, red and yellow Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, and Dad’s Sunset. Sally and Joe will also have okra, lettuce and squash. Sunshine Cove Farm will have microgreens, lettuce, pattypan and summer squash and Chanterais melons.

Watauga River Farms will bring will have new pork chops, ham & shoulder roasts, hot & med. sausage, ground pork, spare ribs, backbones, fatback, new red potatoes, half runner beans, stringless beans, purple beans, spinach, lamb's quarters, purslane, red and/or white or yellow springs, fresh garlic, kohlrabi, chard, baby chard, collards, carrots, turnips, basil. Faith Mountain Farm will have a fresh supply of sourwood honey this week along with fresh cut sunflowers, carrots, radishes, onions, and wild blackberries.

Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery grow an assortment of herb plants ready to grow in your own garden including tasty and decorative garlic chives. You will also find Denver Daisy which is a beautiful dark centered Gloriosa type Rudbeckia said to be hardy in our climate and Clethra 'Vanilla Spice' which has fragrant white blooms much bigger than the standard Summer Sweet. This week's cutflowers will include fragrant Clethra Summer Sweet 'Ruby Spice' with pink flowers and 'Hummingbird' in white.

Pasta Wench will have some great new pasta flavors and also her Moet et Chandon Cremoso Sauce made with fresh organic basil from her farm.

Our village blacksmith Tom Wooten of Fiddler Forge offers elegant handforged iron creations for garden lovers. His artistically unique hanging planters are made using mixed metals of solid steel, copper and bronze forged in fire using traditional blacksmithing techniques. The distinctive style, strength and superior quality of Tom's designs add classic value to both traditional and modern home architecture from cabin to castle.

Ruth Vannoy has been busy making decorative photo frames made out of hand made paper, hand made paper bowls dyed with walnut shells, handmade paper cards decorated with pressed flowers, small fern gardens for the table, flower poundings and paper with flower poundings and decorated with ferns.

The Wednesday markets will be held on Wednesday afternoons for the 2010 season. The hours have been moved up to 3 - 6 PM every week through September. The market is having great success on EBT acceptance, you can call 1-828-355-4918 for more information on using EBT at the market.

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 or visit our website at http://wcfm.info for more information. We will be there rain or shine!