This Saturday at Watauga County Farmers' Market Foglikely Farm will have Roma green beans, young collards at their best, and Yellowstone carrots. Faith Mountain Farm will be bringing eggs, locust honey, spring mix honey, cranberry pecan scones, glorious morning muffins, whole grain breads, granola and other baked goods, Red Russian kale, green and rainbow Swiss chard, radishes and red potatoes.

The first fully-cured organic garlic grown by Otus Branch Farm is now ready. This coming week, we will have Inchelium Red softneck and German Porcelain hardneck garlics that are perfect for seed stock if you want to plant garlic of your own, long-term storage, and delicious eating right now.

Rebecca Kaenzig at Back Yard Bakery now has iced coffee and can do mochas and lattes. She also has lemon tarts as well as fruit pies. Rebecca loves your orders - call her at 828-264-1440 and pick up your dessert at the Watauga County Farmer's Market on Saturday or Wednesday. Megan Ward and Caleb Crowell with Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery will be giving free samples of their raw granola with fresh blueberries and homemade vegan milk every Saturday. Also stop by their booth to sample their handcrafted raw flax chips, spicy sprouts, and variety of raw granola flavors. Hold the Heat also sells fresh triple washed pesticide free mixed greens from their garden and fresh alfalfa/red clover and mung/lentil sprouts, please stop by to check it all out.

Shady Grove Gardens and Nursery will have orange Calla Lilies this weekend.

Tom Wooten, blacksmith , furniture designer and sculptor artist will be featuring his handforged wrought iron Hanging Planters with 7 different designs in a choice of sizes, stone-top tables & a new plant stand. Each artistically unique original is forged using traditional blacksmithing techniques, with hands-on attention to detail. The "Quilting Biddy's" will have colorful and beautiful placemats, table runners, baby quilts, aprons, and quilts of all sizes.

Chuck Nelson, Executive Chef at The Inn at Crestwood will be on hand Wednesday July 29th to put on a cooking demo using the produce available at the market. The dishes he prepares will be available as free samples.

NC Cooperative Extension will offer its second free Plant Clinic at the Watauga County Farmers Market on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 29 2009. The clinic will run from 4:00 – 6:00 PM, and will be staffed by Watauga County Extension Agents Meghan Baker and Richard Boylan. Home gardeners and commercial growers alike are welcome to bring samples of plants they have questions about. Extension agents Baker and Boylan will have reference materials on plant identification, diseases, and insects available at the clinic, plus soil sample boxes and other materials to assist growers in diagnostics and management. Growers wishing to bring samples to the clinic should pack them in plastic bags, to minimize the chance that any fungal spores or plant viruses could contaminate other plants at the Market. For more information, call Watauga Cooperative Extension at 828-264-3061.

Wednesday afternoon markets are a great option for those who can not come out on Saturdays. We have been averaging over 20 vendors on Wednesday with a great selection of produce, garden plants, foods and great hand crafts. There will be no sales allowed before 4PM to give our vendors time to set up properly.

The 2009 High Country Farm Tour will be held on Saturday August 8th and Sunday August 9th from 1 pm to 5. Wrist bands can be purchased online at the Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture website.

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!