There is plenty of fresh and tasty produce available Saturdays at Watauga County Farmers' Market including the full range of spring greens and fruit and the first of the summer harvest including some local tomatoes. Many good things will also be at our opening Wednesday on June 2, including the music of The Worthless Son In Laws.

This Saturday Tumbling Shoals Farm will have plenty of chemical free vegetables including lots of gorgeous and gigantic lettuces such as Romaine, red leaf, green leaf and Boston Bibb, rainbow chard and collard greens, green curly and Dino kale and radishes, both long mild French Breakfast radish and the lovely sweet and spicy red “Cherriette” along with the first beets of the season and nice peppery arugula.

Will and Jeff Thomas of Creeksong Farm will have spinach, lettuce, salad mix, arugula, herb plants and grass fed beef. Alan Souther will also have grass fed beef along with certified organic strawberries. Sunshine Cove will have more microgreens, and will have then all year long. They also offer bring mix with red bok choy, tatsoi, arugula, kale, mustard, broccoli raab, and mizuna spinach, lamb's quarters and purslane. Watauga River Farms will bring all kinds of pork, spring onions, baby green garlic, greens, herbs and rhubarb.

Springhouse Farm will have a large assortment of mix & match lettuce, Swiss chard, spinach, spring onions, radishes, and hopefully the beets will be ready. They will also be selling borage transplants, which have a beautiful nectar producing edible flower that attracts pollinators to your garden.

Megan Ward and Caleb Crowell of Hold the Heat Raw Food Makery will be selling raw, whole food vegan products including chocolate, flax crackers and granola. Everything is Gluten free and samples are available.

There are a great variety of annual and perennial flowering plants to choose from including Daphne 'Carol Mackie' and Carolina Allspice from Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery.

A thanks to everyone from Fog Likely Farm for donations of plants and moral support after the hail disaster. While waiting for the garden to regrow they have been forced back into the studios and as a result David Sengel will have more of his wood work. Susie Winters will also have a new art display.

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 for more information. We will be there rain or shine!