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!