Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning September 24

The Blue Ridge area has been enjoying some well needed rain lately but the forecasters say Saturday will be the turning point toward nicer weather. Lucky shoppers will be able to choose between the last of the summer's tomatoes and peppers and a bounty of fall pumpkins and apples.

Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will have a sweet crop of new broccoli, braising mix of mustard, chard and kale, heirloom tomatoes, spicy mustard mix and mixed lettuce. Ripshin Goat Dairy will offer a new product on Saturday, September 24th, our plain goat chevre aged a little and rolled into logs for slicing. Customers have been asking for this, so here it is.

Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery will be bringing fresh and preserved Hydrangeas, extra large yellow onions, white lilies and bulbs and beautiful bright dahlias. Blue Ridge Apiaries still has plenty of sourwood honey, as well as wildflower, infused, and creamed honeys.

Faith Mountain Farm will supply sourwood honey, comb honey, spring honey, chocolate cashew butter, sunflowers, zinnias, granola, pumpkin muffin, blueberry muffin, whole grain bread, chewy balls, and more. Pasta Wench has great seasonal pumpkin sage ravioli you don't want to miss along with fresh basil and other herbs to make the perfect sauce to go with her dried pasta.

Vendor of the week: Todd McNeil
Todd McNeil is the man to talk to if you want some fine Moravian chicken pies or some farm fresh eggs.

The hours of the Wednesday morning markets at Kmart have been changed to 9am to 1pm. We hope you will find this more convenient for shopping the local goodies we have in store for you. Please stop by on our last Wednesday for the best in local.

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 on Saturday mornings, turn next to First Citizens Bank on Highway 105 Extension and go to the top of the hill. Wednesday morning markets will start June 1 in the Kmart parking lot. 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!