Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning August 21

Wednesday August 25 from 3 - 6PM

Spanish Flag Vine

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: Tom Wooten
Our village blacksmith, Tom Wooten of Fiddler Forge, will be back this week with his elegant hand-forged hanging planters and birdfeeders. The unique designs are created using mixed metals of solid steel and bronze, forged in fire, with the finest quality in detail, strength and durability.

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.

This Saturday Watauga County Farmers' Market will be celebrating tomato and garlic day with the music of The Forget Me Nots. We hope you will all come out and enjoy a fine day with us.

The Emmons family announce the birth of Glory Zion Sunday morning. Mother and daughter are both healthy and doing well. Harmony Acres Soap Company will be at the market this Saturday purple and green okra, yellow wax beans, stringless green beans, flowers, blueberries and the world's best lip balm.

Springhouse Farm will have heirloom Jacob’s Cattle & Yin Yang dried beans, a variety of heirloom & cherry tomatoes, squash, basil, bell & lipstick peppers, and the first acorn squash of the season. Zydeco Moon has a variety of heirloom tomatoes including Mortgage Lifter, yellow and red Brandywine, Zapotec and Cherokee Purple along with okra, delicata and acorn squash.

Sunshine Cove Farm will offer microgreens, Chanterais melons, patty pan squash and tomatoes. Goldenrod Gardens will be bringing Spanish flag vines which will bloom until frost with warm colored flowers you have to see, a fresh new crop of arugula and summer inspired wreaths. Come early before the cilantro sells out. Faith Mountain Farm will have sourwood honey, whole grain breads, cinnamon rolls, blueberry lemon zest scones, high energy chewy balls, and much more! Select native pink turtlehead or Chelone as garden ready plants or cut flowers Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery, gladiolas flowers will also be available.

Megan Ward and Caleb Crowell with Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery will be selling low temperature dried veggie chips made from locally grown vegetables and greens. Stop by their booth early to get a bag for $4.00 before they sell out. Back Yard Bakery has hot country ham biscuits and lots of fruit pies made with local fruit.

The Quilting Biddys have many new quilted goods including placemats, ASU lap quilts, baby and children's quilts, beautiful contemporary and traditional quilts and wonderful woven baskets to tempt buyers.

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!