Watauga County Farmers' Market

Watauga County Farmers' Market will be celebrating Spring Greens Day this Saturday with the crowd pleasing music of The Produce Pickers. There will be plenty of greens to celebrate this weekend, and practically every vendor will bring their own favorite varieties to the mix. James Wilkes will have green leaf lettuce and mesclin mix along with free range brown hen eggs, poplar honey, and fresh bread. Roger and Don Owens will be bring fresh cabbage to enjoy with their sugar snaps, snow peas, pickling cucumbers, and they are pretty sure to have some homegrown squash this weekend.

Charles Church will be harvesting tasty and nutritious lambsquarters and red chard to add to the fresh greens mix along with onions, garlic, sugar snaps, and all kinds of pork. Charles also has some fine looking cinnamon ferns for planting. Reba Greene will begin the cabbage harvest from her garden and hopefully will have more May cherries this weekend.

Larry Denny has various potted herbs ready for planting and a few more tomato starts including some heirloom varieties. Larry will have columbines and painted daisies in bloom, and a good supply of mixed lupines. Ruth Vannoy will have potted rattlesnake ferns, decorative fern gardens, and some fine looking potted catnip for the cat lovers out there.

Watauga County Farmers' Market will be open on Wednesday mornings starting on June 18, and you can find us Saturday mornings 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, send an email or visit http://wcfm.info for more information. We will be there rain or shine!