Watauga County Farmers' Market

Saturday Morning August 27

Plenty of Late Summer Vegetable Choices

We will all have a great treat this Saturday when Gamekeeper Chef Sam Easley will offer a cooking demonstration using local produce from the market.

This Saturday Sunshine Cove will have microgreens, cherry tomatoes, and Anaheim Sahuaro peppers. Zydeco Moon Organic Farm will have juicy red ripe raspberries, heirloom tomatoes, snow peas, fingerling potatoes, okra and beautiful red and orange peppers. Ripshin Goat Dairy will have goat milk feta cheese, we know some of you have been waiting a long time for this.

Fall is just around the corner at Faith Mountain Farm where they hope to harvest some spaghetti and butternut squash soon. Pick up some whole grain bread and local honey and granola to provide a nice breakfast treat for you and your family during the week. Sunflowers and zinnias will brighten your home with their beautiful colors. You can also check out this Saturdays great bread puddings at Lulu's Sweet and Savory.

Shady Grove Gardens will have seedless burpless cucumbers along with pickling cucumbers. For fall planting there will be hardy perennial mums, Boltonia white Aster and Sweet Autumn white Clematis and for cut flowers colorful gladiolas, dahlias and zinnias.

Vendor of the week: The Pasta Wench
Andrea Morrell delights us every week with an ever expanding selection of tasty and creative pasta flavors.

Blue Ridge Apiaries will be bringing to market on Saturday a new crop of Sourwood Honey, Wildflower Honey, Infused Honey, and Creamed Honey. Pasta Wench will have some great seasonal specialty ravioli this week like Butternut Squash with Carmelized Pear and Garlic, and Pumpkin Sage.

Tom Wooten, master blacksmith of Fiddler Forge, offers elegant hand-forged creations for garden lovers. His artistically unique hanging planters and bird feeders are made using mixed metals of solid steel, copper and bronze. All are forged in fire using traditional blacksmithing techniques with utmost attention to detail. He has a variety of both ornate and functional styles and sizes to choose from with matching brackets for hanging, as well as custom-order plant stands, cabin tables, and his new whirligig wind vane.

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.

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!