The Watauga County Farmers' Market will continue on Saturdays through the end of October. We are grateful for the nice weather at almost all of the markets this season, and even for the past Saturday when the rain held off until almost quitting time. Once again the home game did not affect out parking at all and there were plenty of spots for customers. The market will once again have holiday markets on the Saturday before and after Thanksgiving, November 21 and 28, from 10 until 2. We hope everyone will be able to come out and see the great things we have planned.

This Saturday the 17th will be the Appalachian Crafts Day with live music provided by the South Fork Cane Cutters. Watauga County Farmers' Market has a great group of local hand crafters, among them Earth Harmonies' jewelers Amantha And Ryon Calhoun who will have plenty of new autumn necklaces, fun holiday earrings, and also wire wrapped hair barrettes.

Springhouse Farm will be back with an assortment of hand-picked leaf lettuce, pumpkins including pie pumpkins with mom's delicious pumpkin bread recipe, Brussels sprouts, kale, and a variety of peppers, including the hot paper lantern. Springhouse Farm uses no pesticides on the produce. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will have spicy arugula, mixed lettuce, beets, spinach and beautiful purple cauliflower. Unless we get a real frost, Fog Likely Farm will have the last Roma beans of the season, lots of pristine arugula, cilantro and watercress.

Matt Cooper of Lively Up Farm will be harvesting plenty of Butternut, Red Kuri and Spaghetti Winter Squash, kale Dino and All Blue and Kennebec potatoes. Susan Wright of Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will bring what will most likely be the last of the summer flowers, lots of Hydrangeas and globe amaranth to dry, snowberries and orange holly, as well as great sweet yellow storage onions and winter squash.

The Pasta Wench will bring along her famous Butternut Squash with Carmelized Pear & Garlic ravioli this week, along with the popular Great Pumpkin Seasonal ravioli - yum!

Join us at the market on Saturday October 24 at 11:30 for the International Day of Climate Action group photo to be presented to world leaders at the United Nations. This will be a opportunity to add your voice to the call for serious action in Copenhagen to reduce carbon emissions and limit global warming. The photo will be taken at high noon. This event is taking place in thousands of locations all over the world. For more information, visit www.350.org.

EBT transactions have been going without a hitch. If you or someone you know Has an EBT card we encourage it's use, please stop by the manager's booth.

Find us every Saturday morning 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!