Watauga County Farmers' Market

Jerry Harvey has been farming ever since he gave up the baby bottle. He spent his summers selling flowers for his parents and grandparents at the farmers' market in Tuskaloosa, Alabama. He sold his vegetables at another market in the mid seventies, and has been a vendor at Watauga County Farmers' Market for two years.

Jerry has five acres in vegetables and right now his crops are all scheduled to ripen when the sweet corn is ready to harvest. Jerry staggers the harvest by planting varieties that mature at different times. He plans to branch out into spring crops as soon as he can build fences to keep out bear, deer, woodchucks, and a host of other animals.