Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning July 31

Wednesday August 4 from 3 - 6PM

Savoy Cabbage

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:Jason Brooks
You don't know what you are missing if you haven't tasted Jason's grass fed grass finished beef.

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.

Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will be offering heirloom tomatoes such as Cherokee Purple, Red and Yellow Brandywine, Green Zebra, Mortgage Lifter, Valencia and German Johnson along with squash and okra. Fog Likely Farm will finally have plenty of those good stringless Roma beans. Purslane really IS worth trying… excellent on a taco salad. Sunshine Cove will bring microgreens, kale and local honey.

Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will continue bringing lovely bunches of lilies and specialty cut flowers for you to make your own bouquets or they will make up a big beautiful bouquet while you wait, just ask Susan or Brent. You will also find lots of huge cut oriental lilies and bulbs.

Lee Swift will be harvesting plenty of the classic French herb salad burnet which tastes like cucumbers and is beautiful to look at to boot, Magilia Rosa cherry tomatoes which have a marbled egg shape and a fantastic flavor for salads,snacks and pizzas, Chocolate Cherry tomatoes, a beautiful array of heirloom slicing tomatoes, all organically grown and stringless Blue Lake green beans. Lee has potted Spanish flag vines about to bloom and she will help you put together a beautiful bunch of flowers. Don't let arranging overwhelm you, that is why she is here.

Faith Mountain Farm's kitchen will be baking muffins made with fresh local blueberries and blackberries and mixing up our new high energy chewy balls. The garden is producing red and white potatoes, sweet carrots, and a variety of cut sunflowers. Sourwood honey is still flowing from the apiary, but the supply is limited. Rebecca has tomato pies and all kinds of fruit pies made with homemade pie crust and local fruit including blueberries, blackberries and apples.

Add a graceful flourish to your home, deck or garden with Tom Wooten's hand-forged wrought iron hanging planters and birdfeeders. Each one is individually created with hands-on attention to detail. He has a variety of both ornate and functional styles and sizes to choose from, as well as solid steel brackets, either wall or ceiling mount,to hang them from.

Megan Ward and Caleb Crowell with Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery now have Local Veggie Chips made from locally grown squash, zucchini, kale and beets seasoned and low-dried to preserve valuable nutrients. Also don't forget to stop by their booth for a healthy breakfast cup of Hold the Heat's Sprouted Granola, Wheat and gluten free, this no sugar added granola is better that you would believe in Cacao Goji and Orange Almond Spice. Also available at their all raw, vegan and organic booth are flax chips in chipotle and sweet potato, spicy sprouts in a variety of sizes, brownies, agave cookies, Bona Fide Bars and raw chocolate. We would also like to invite anyone who is interested in the raw, vegan or gluten-free lifestyle to join the Boone Raw Food Community for their free family oriented raw food potlucks on August 7 and 17. For more information please e-mail boonerawfoodcommunity@live.com or just stop by the Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery booth for details.

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!