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!

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!

Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning July 17

Wednesday July 21 from 3 - 6PM

Perfect for patio tables.

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: Matthew Cooper
Matt is well known not only for his tireless work on projects such as Leola Street Garden, but also for the colorful and tasty vegetables he brings to the market.

We are having a very good selection of fresh produce on Wednesday, stop by for a mid - week fix.

The Wednesday afternoon markets are going strong from 3 to 6 with plenty of local produce and food. We hope to see you there.

Saturday's produce selection continues to expand as well. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will harvest heirloom tomatoes such as Cherokee purple, red and yellow Brandywines, green zebras, and valencias, and also okra and lettuce. Sunshine Cove will have microgreens, lettuce, Swiss chard and patty pan and yellow squash. You will also find homegrown peaches, cucumbers, sweet corn, and of course Alan Souther's grass fed beef.

Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery has cutflowers really kicking in now including Annabelle hydrangeas, lilies, lavender, Alostroemeria also known as Peruvian lilies and summer saisies. This Saturday's potted plants will include tall and dwarf Shasta Daisies, lily bulbs and Raspberry Wine bee balm. Sandi Henry has many colors of day lilies for sale for $1.00 a fan. She is located in the center of the market, under the shelter, next to the storage shed.

This week at Nature's Wood Design, Laurie will have her Snoozarondack Pet Beds and her Swingarondack Single Human Swing. Check out all the goodies handmade by Laurie and nature's help. Fresh Art by Artist/ Expressive Arts Therapist Deborah Tallarico includes original acrylic paintings on reclaimed wood, printed cards on 100% recycled paper and original watercolor pins and necklaces.

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!

Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning July 3

Wednesday July 7 from 3 - 6PM

Yes Sir these are homegrown tomatoes you betcha.

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 Roehrig
Jason always puts out a very attractive display for Tumbling Shoals Farm. The bright colors only hint at the freshness and great flavor.

We are having a very good selection of fresh produce on Wednesday, stop by for a mid - week fix.

The Wednesday afternoon markets are going strong with plenty of local produce and food. Springhouse farm will be at the Wednesday and Saturday markets with a
variety of produce including summer squash, basil, and green beans. Pasta Wench will be there Wednesday with a special $1.00 off any box of frozen pasta. Saturday she'll have Sweet Potato Gorgonzola Walnut along with Four Sisters Cheese and all of the regular favorites. Don't miss the Gluten Free selections as well as the fresh dried pasta, a quick and easy meal that goes well with any fresh veggies from the market.

On Saturday Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will have colorful heirloom tomatoes such as Cherokee purple, yellow brandy wine and red brandy wine. You will also fine golden zucchini, 8-ball zucchini, patty pan squash, and okra. Roaring Fork Farm will have multicolored free-range eggs, "Candy" carrots and spring onions. Watauga River Farms have broccoli, new green beans, sugar snaps, yellow transparent apples and all kinds of pork.

Name that flower! Apparently it is easy to grow and is available at Pattye Kremer's booth.

Sunshine Cove will offer microgreens, yellow and green patty pan squash and red and golden beets. Goldenrod Farm will bring Pink Tip heirloom beans, spinach, bells of Ireland which is a lasting cutflower and great dried as well, sweet peas and purple and green basil.

Rebecca at Back Yard Bakery will have fresh fruit pies made with local fruit, pecan pies, lemon tarts and tomato pies. Megan Ward and Caleb Crowell of Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery will be selling dehydrated local veggie chips, raw chocolate and gluten free flax crackers. Fire From The Mountain will have the full array of hot sauces, Chipotle salsa and smoked Habanero BBQ sauce all made with hot peppers grown on our Watauga County farm in Zionville. They will likely have plenty of heirloom variety blueberries as well.

Yes you can buy livestock at WCFM! Think chickens and....bunnehs.

This is a great time to look over your home garden and fill any blank spots with waves of color. Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will provide dwarf Shasta daisy Snowcap, Raspberry Wine bee balm and Summer Sun Echinacea. My Favorite Plants will be offering Hydrangea such as Quick Fire, Little Lamb, All Summer Beauty, Queen of Pearls, and Oakleaf. They will also have butterfly bushes Adonis Blue and Low and Behold which is a new dwarf variety and Sixteen Candles Clethra.

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 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning July 3

Wednesday July 7 from 3 - 6PM

This week featuring sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and blueberries, all locally grown. As an added treat there will be live music by the Produce Pickers. Mountain Alliance will also be on site serving pancake breakfasts.

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: David Sengal
David has been an asset to the market for 5 years. He provides an attractive mix of veggies, cut flowers, and fine art every week.

We are having a very good selection of fresh produce on Wednesday, stop by for a mid - week fix.

Folks at the Watauga County Farmers' Market will be celebrating Red White and Blue Day this Saturday with music from the Produce Pickers. There will be late season vegetables including homegrown corn and tomatoes, and plenty of local and handmade goodies. Faith Mountain Farm will have sunflowers, spring honey, eggs, shiitake mushrooms and the usual assortment of baked goods. Sourwood honey is coming soon!

Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will have Cherokee Purple heirloom tomatoes and Brandywine heirloom tomatoes, golden zucchini, green zucchini, 8 Ball zucchini and patty pan squash, sweet sugar snap peas, broccoli and cheddar cauliflower. Creeksong Farm will have English and sugar snap peas plus grass feed beef. Springhouse Farm will have young red beets, early potatoes, variety of lettuce, spinach, sugar peas, Swiss chard, zucchini & yellow squash.

Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will ne offering loads of summer flowers such as mixed color lily bouquets, patriot red white and blue arrangements, lilies, larkspur and lavender. The lavender is French perfume 'Grosso' which is great for drying. Potted plants include Hydrangea 'Incrediball', rosemary, 'Blue Paradise Phlox', daylilies, and dwarf shasta daisy 'Snowcap'.

Pasta Wench will have five flavors of her new dried pasta along with plenty of fresh ravioli. Sweet Potato Gorgonzola is a summer favorite, as is the Cracked Black Pepper Fettucini that was highlighted by last week's cooking demonstration. Don't forget to ask for Gluten Free Fettucini and fresh herb bundles for making sauce right from the farm. Rebecca Kaenzig will have cakes and cookies for July 4 picnics as well as country ham biscuits.

Ruth Vannoy will display her handmade paper bowls which were dyed with walnut dye. Ruth has also started making fern gardens that will go nicely on tables, inside or out.

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 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!

This Saturday Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture will be offering samples of local food prepared with one of Elizabeth Wiegand's reciepies from her new book The New Blue Ridge Cookbook. The recipe originated from Shiloh Avery and Jason Roehrig. Stop by and have a nice treat.

Watauga River Farms will be at the Watauga County Farmers' Market with pork, onions, some sugar snaps, baby carrots and arugula. Also Charles Church will have plenty of lettuce, spinach, lamb's quarters, purslane, amaranth and kohlrabi. Recipes will be available. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will be offering heirloom tomatoes, sweet sugar snap peas, patty pan and golden zucchini squash, broccoli and cheddar cauliflower and rhubarb. Alan Souther will be offering grass fed natural beef. Plenty of homefrown vegetables have been spotted around the market including corn and cucumbers.

Harmony Acres will have the new No More Bugs in a solid now. It is great for the active outdoorsy type. They should also have yellow wax, jade and provider stringless French fillet beans and possibly the first batch of cherry tomatoes; yellow Zephyr squash and Sunburst patty pan squash will be plentiful. Sunshine Cove Farm will be offering microgreens, patty pan and yellow squash, red and golden beets and Melaleuca honey.

Megan Ward and Caleb Crowell of Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery will have samples of their Raw Ecuadorian Cocoa Chocolate, Gluten free Flax Crackers, blood sugar friendly Agave Cookies, locally grown organic dehydrated Veggie Chips and much more. Faith Mountain Farm will have cut sunflowers, spring honey, whole grain breads, regular and cocoa granola, and shiitake mushrooms.

On Saturday Lindy Johnson will have five varieties of blueberry plants. The Jersey is late with a medium to large berry, firm, good taste. The Duke is early ripening with medium to large berry with consistent high yield and the Blue Ray is early mid-season with large, firm, sweet berries. These three varieties are the northern highbush and very hardy. Two other types are Rabbiteyes; the Premier is early to mid-season with large fruit, excellent flavor and the Tifblue is mid-season ripening and the berries are medium to large and the plant has beautiful fall foliage, being rated as the best ornamental. Lindy also will have some of the different varieties of native azaleas. The Blueberry Ladies, Susan and Carol, will have lots of blueberries this coming Saturday.

Alicia Breton will have several varieties of Hydrangeas including Hayes Starburst, which is an arborescens type and shade tolerant growing to 2-3', Quick Firewhich is an early blooming paniculata at 6-8', All Summer Beauty, a macrophylla for sun or shade reaching 3-5' and Alice Oakleaf, sun to shade and 6-10'.

Debbie Tallarico will have original artwork including acrylic paintings on reclaimed wood, watercolor pins and necklaces and printed image cards on 100% recycled paper.

Grace your home, deck or garden with an elegant wrought iron hanging planter handforged by Tom Wooten. Planters are made from solid steel and bronze in a variety of styles and sizes, each artistically unique original is forged in fire by Tom using traditional blacksmithing techniques with utmost attention to detail.

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.

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. 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!

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!

Spring vegetables remain plentiful at both the Wednesday and Saturday markets, and summer vegetables are also starting to come on strong. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm and Cabins will have golden and candy stripe beets, sugar snap peas, broccoli, lettuce and onions. Rocking S Farm will have certified organic strawberries and grass fed beef and nearby Sunshine Cove Farm will have micro greens, kale, strawberries and red and green Oakleaf lettuce.

This week Watauga River Farms will have hot and mild pork sausage, ground pork, spare ribs, unseasoned bacon, spare ribs, ham roasts, pork chops, backbones, pigs feet,pork liver, spring onions, baby green garlic, baby chard, lettuce mix, spinach, lamb's quarters, sage, rosemary, lemon balm, chard. Faith Mountain Farm will have a fresh supply of spring honey. Produce will include radishes, onions, lettuce, and kale. From the kitchen we will have high energy chewy balls, fresh baked breads, chocolate granola, muffins, cinnamon rolls, scones, and cookies. Matt Cooper of Lively Up Farm will be offering fresh Dino kale, baby Rainbow chard and red and green Romaine lettuce. Springhouse Farm will have red and golden beets, young carrots, Swiss chard, spinach, and a variety of head and loose leaf lettuce.

Rebecca at Back Yard Bakery has hot country ham biscuits and hot savory scones every Saturday. She also has great cakes, stop by and get a slice and order a whole cake. You will also find fresh pasta and gluten free fettuccine flavors from the Pasta Wench.

There will be a wide variety of garden ready plants and shrubs at the market as well as peony cutflowers from Shady Grove Gardens and Nursery.

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.

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!

By the time you read this the Watauga County Farmer's Market will have had the first Wednesday market of the season. These will continue from 3-6:30 until the end of September.

There will be a special treat this Saturday, June 5, as Elizabeth F. Wiegand will be on hand to sign copies of her newest book, The New Blue Ridge Cookbook. Samples of her recipes prepared with market produce will be available thanks to Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture.

Faith Mountain Farm will have their first local honey of the season next Saturday along with radishes, onions, lettuce, kale, shiitakes, and your favorite assortment of fresh baked goods. The folks at Shady Grove Gardens and Nursery will be offering Lettuce Leaf basil, tomatoes including the taste test winner 'Chianti Rose', Rosemary and 'Grosso' Lavender.

Zydeco Moon Organic Farm and Cabins will be at both the Wednesday and Saturday markets broccoli, beautiful and delicious miniature and full heads of lettuce, lettuce mix, spinach, heirloom tomatoes and herbs, rhubarb for your favorite pie. Harmony Acres offer handmade natural lip balm, body lotions, and soap, fresh produce as well as pastured chickens ready to cook, while they last.

Sunshine Cove Farm will have microgreens with sorrel, carrot, red amaranth, radish, and more, a spring mix with broccoli raab, arugula, tatsoi, mustard, and kale, and red and green Oakleaf lettuce. Watauga River Farms will be bringing hot and mild sausage, ground pork, backbones for stew or grill, ham roasts, pork chops, pork liver, fatback, spare ribs, spring onions, green garlic, garlic scapes, lettuce mix, spinach, herbs, lambs quarter, rhubarb, mesclun mix, turnips at both the Wednesday and Saturday markets.

The Quilting Biddy's will be there rain or shine with new quilts, baskets, placemats and wall hangings and other wonderful mountain crafts.

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.

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!

There is plenty of fresh and tasty produce available Saturdays at Watauga County Farmers' Market including the full range of spring greens and fruit and the first of the summer harvest including some local tomatoes. Many good things will also be at our opening Wednesday on June 2, including the music of The Worthless Son In Laws.

This Saturday Tumbling Shoals Farm will have plenty of chemical free vegetables including lots of gorgeous and gigantic lettuces such as Romaine, red leaf, green leaf and Boston Bibb, rainbow chard and collard greens, green curly and Dino kale and radishes, both long mild French Breakfast radish and the lovely sweet and spicy red “Cherriette” along with the first beets of the season and nice peppery arugula.

Will and Jeff Thomas of Creeksong Farm will have spinach, lettuce, salad mix, arugula, herb plants and grass fed beef. Alan Souther will also have grass fed beef along with certified organic strawberries. Sunshine Cove will have more microgreens, and will have then all year long. They also offer bring mix with red bok choy, tatsoi, arugula, kale, mustard, broccoli raab, and mizuna spinach, lamb's quarters and purslane. Watauga River Farms will bring all kinds of pork, spring onions, baby green garlic, greens, herbs and rhubarb.

Springhouse Farm will have a large assortment of mix & match lettuce, Swiss chard, spinach, spring onions, radishes, and hopefully the beets will be ready. They will also be selling borage transplants, which have a beautiful nectar producing edible flower that attracts pollinators to your garden.

Megan Ward and Caleb Crowell of Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery will be selling raw, whole food vegan products including chocolate, flax crackers and granola. Everything is Gluten free and samples are available.

There are a great variety of annual and perennial flowering plants to choose from including Daphne 'Carol Mackie' and Carolina Allspice from Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery.

A thanks to everyone from Fog Likely Farm for donations of plants and moral support after the hail disaster. While waiting for the garden to regrow they have been forced back into the studios and as a result David Sengel will have more of his wood work. Susie Winters will also have a new art display.

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.

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!