Springhouse Farm will be at both Saturday and Wednesday markets with carrots, red and golden beets, peas, Swiss chard, red mustard, and a variety of lettuces. Watauga River Farms will be at both markets bringing pork cuts and sausage, spring onions in bunches and pint boxes, green garlic, garlic scapes, turnips,lettuce, lamb's quarter, spinach, purslane, some herbs and chives.

Pasta Wench will offer a Wednesday Special of $1 off your first box of any frozen pasta and on Saturday will have gluten free and five flavors of dried pasta.

Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will be featuring cut flowers including peony, larkspur, deep purple lavender 'Hidcote', feverfew, colored yarrow, sweet peas and red penstemon. Plants will include lime basil, and APP Pepper. Apple Peak Pepper is a seed strain selected from Apple peppers grown at the 'Peak', thus the name - APP.

Faith Mountain Farm is introducing a new scone variety, Blueberry Lemon Zest, to go along with their Cranberry Pecan Scone and other baked goods and fresh baked breads. They will continue to harvest onions, radishes, lettuce, and Red Russian Kale. The spring honey flow was not real plentiful, but there will be a new limited supply of spring honey. Hopefully the first cut sunflowers of the season will also be available.

Zydeco Moon Organic Farm and Cabins will offer sweet sugar snap peas, golden and candy stripe beets, broccoli, cheddar cauliflower, golden and green zucchini, patty pan squash and spring onions. Jeff and Will Thomas of Creeksong Farm will sugar snap peas, spinach, salad mix, lettuce, beets, onions and grass-fed beef.

Carol Miller of Providence Farm will have a great variety of jams and jellies including the first peach of the season as well as brandied peach, brandied blackberry, brandied black cherry and a full selection of pepper jellies.

Sunshine Cove Farm will have microgreens, straight neck and yellow and green pattypan squash, red and gold beets and the first local honey harvest.

Hydrangea season is upon us and Alicia Breton will be offering 'Quick Fire' paniculata, 'All Summer Beauty' mop head, and 'Hayes Starburst' lace cap Hydrangeas this week.

The Wednesday markets will be held on Wednesday afternoons for the 2010 season. The hours have been moved up to 3 - 6:30PM, starting on June 2. 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.

The market basket at the top is to announce a fun new contest at Watauga County Farmer's Market. 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. Hope yours makes it!

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!