Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning August 28

Wednesday September 3 from 3 - 6PM

All American Treats

Watauga County Farmers' Market will accept food donations on Saturdays for food insecure individuals and families. The Society of St. Andrews will be collecting and distributing the donations to local help organizations. Our farmers have been donating surplus produce for quite some time, and we would like to offer you the opportunity to help as well. You may also donate any extras you may have from your own garden. A cooler will be placed at the manager's stand for any donations.

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.

Vendor of the week: Kim Miller
Kim creates some amazing things from gourds including fashionable purses and intricate carvings with removable lids. Look closer and you will see a wide assortment of decorative items made of wood, stone and fabric.

We are having a very good selection of fresh produce on Wednesday, stop by for a mid - week fix.The Wednesday afternoon markets are from 3 to 6 with plenty of local produce and food. We hope to see you there.

The selection of produce at Watauga County Farmers' Market offers plenty of choices at both the Wednesday afternon and Saturday morning markets. This Saturday Roaring Fork Farm will have slicing, pickling and lemon cucumbers along with their famous free range rainbow eggs and a few bags of gourmet baby lettuce mix. Watauga River Farms will offer new pork chops and ribs and a few ham roasts to go along with the sausage, onions, garlic and other tasty items. The folks at Faith Mountain Farm have been busy preparing a new summer mix varietal honey along with Shiitake mushrooms, sunflowers, sweet yellow corn, red, white and blue potatoes, whole grain breads, and delicious baked goods for breakfast.

Tumbling Shoals Farm will have sweet ripe bell peppers and once again the pepper roaster will be at your service. You will also find sweet Corno di Toro peppers, Poblano chiles, mixed hot chiles, tomatoes, Cranberry Red potatoes, Japanese eggplant, okra, Butternut squash, Delicata squash, Blue Hubbard squash and Golden Delicious squash. Sunshine Cove Farm will have plenty of microgreens, heirloom tomatoes, Chanterais melons and patty pan squash. Zydeco Moon farm will have heirloom tomatoes, Cherokee Purple which won the contest for best tasting tomato, red and yellow Brandywine and Valencia. They will also have beets, a variety of sweet peppers and Delicata and acorn winter squash.

This weekend Pasta Wench will unveil her new flavors, spicy fettucini and a Jalepeno with Cheddar Ravioli.

Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will have a selection of potted perennials for late summer planting including butterflyweed, white 'Crystal Peak' obedient plant, pink snowberries, yellow globe Centaurea, strawberry plants and lavender. Katy Wilson will have still more beautiful hand-crafted jewelry with unusual stones.

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.

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!