Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning August 7

Wednesday August 10 from 3 - 6PM

Ask Lee Swift the name of this cantalope tasting melon

Watauga County Farmers' Market will accept 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: Chris Teague
Christian is not only a devoted and loving father, but he knows which plants grow best in our mountain climate and delivers them already well acclimated.

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.

Harmony Acres will have yummy pesticide-free blueberries, as well as fresh tomatoes, yellow wax beans and plenty of great soap products including some really great all-natural lip balm. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will bring plenty of heirloom tomatoes including red and yellow Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Valencia and German Johnson. along with okra and squash. Faith Mountain Farm will have white half runners, sweet corn, and red, white, and blue potatoes. They also have sourwood and summer mix honey along with whole grain breads, cocoa loco granola, scones, muffins, and cinnamon rolls.

Lee Carlton Swift will bring egg Gourds which are great for display or crafts, single serving size French melons which taste like a cantaloupe, Pineapple, Hillbilly, Black Sea Man, Costoluto Genovese and Chocolate Cherry heirloom tomatoes and mixed color Mini Belle and pimento peppers. Jill Nicklaw will be harvesting Chanterais melons, kale and French Filet, Purple Queen, Fresh Pick, Blue Lake beans for this Saturday's market.

Pasta Wench is offering fresh organic basil bunches for sauces to go with her amazing ravioli and pastas. The gluten free folks have been heard and there will be more coming for you this Saturday. Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery will have low temperature dried veggie chips made from organically grown local vegetables, raw vegan chocolate and locally made gluten free chips

Shady Grove Gardens will bring white cut snowberries, hydrangeas, and sunflowers along with pink Oriental lilies. You will also find plenty of garden ready plants such as rosemary and Asclepias tuberosa, also known as orange butterflyweed.

Ruth Vannoy is making new square bowls from her handmade paper, and will have new fern gardens thus weekend along with your regular favorites.

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!