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!