By the time you read this the Watauga County Farmer's Market will have had the first Wednesday market of the season. These will continue from 3-6:30 until the end of September.

There will be a special treat this Saturday, June 5, as Elizabeth F. Wiegand will be on hand to sign copies of her newest book, The New Blue Ridge Cookbook. Samples of her recipes prepared with market produce will be available thanks to Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture.

Faith Mountain Farm will have their first local honey of the season next Saturday along with radishes, onions, lettuce, kale, shiitakes, and your favorite assortment of fresh baked goods. The folks at Shady Grove Gardens and Nursery will be offering Lettuce Leaf basil, tomatoes including the taste test winner 'Chianti Rose', Rosemary and 'Grosso' Lavender.

Zydeco Moon Organic Farm and Cabins will be at both the Wednesday and Saturday markets broccoli, beautiful and delicious miniature and full heads of lettuce, lettuce mix, spinach, heirloom tomatoes and herbs, rhubarb for your favorite pie. Harmony Acres offer handmade natural lip balm, body lotions, and soap, fresh produce as well as pastured chickens ready to cook, while they last.

Sunshine Cove Farm will have microgreens with sorrel, carrot, red amaranth, radish, and more, a spring mix with broccoli raab, arugula, tatsoi, mustard, and kale, and red and green Oakleaf lettuce. Watauga River Farms will be bringing hot and mild sausage, ground pork, backbones for stew or grill, ham roasts, pork chops, pork liver, fatback, spare ribs, spring onions, green garlic, garlic scapes, lettuce mix, spinach, herbs, lambs quarter, rhubarb, mesclun mix, turnips at both the Wednesday and Saturday markets.

The Quilting Biddy's will be there rain or shine with new quilts, baskets, placemats and wall hangings and other wonderful mountain crafts.

The Wednesday markets will be held on Wednesday afternoons for the 2010 season. The hours have been moved up to 3 - 6:30PM, starting on June 2. 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!