March 21, 2007

Published in Wake Forest, NC

            Almost all of the favorite vendors from prior years will be there along with newcomers such as the Sleepy Goat Farm, which will offer artisan goat cheese, both chevre and hard.

            The market organizers say there will be 16 vendors on opening day along with musician Paul Davis.

            Another 11 vendors will begin selling at the market in the next couple months.

            The organizers are planning a number of special events beginning with the May 12 grand opening as the market – and the produce rev up to high gear. There will be a customer appreciation and children’s day June 2, a picnic at the market June 30 when visitors can enjoy tasty dishes made with fresh local ingredients, a summer harvest celebration on July 28, a dueling chef competition featuring garlic on Aug. 18, and the Second Annual Four-Alarm Chili Cook-off on Sept. 29 when the proceeds will benefit the Wake Forest Fire Department.

            You will find the following farms and people at the market on April 7:

-- Mapleville Fruit and Berry Farm: jellies, jams and stained glass art
-- Cedar Rock Farms: shitakes, vegetables, eggs, chicken and pheasants
-- Blessed Be Soaps: aromatherapy soaps, candles, lotions and more
-- Polecat Mountain Farm: pasture raised poultry, eggs and pork and vegetables
-- The Flour Garden: Breads, Pies, Pastries from organic locally milled flours
            and grains.
-- Whetstone Homegrown Farm: specialty plants and trees, vegetables and fruit.
-- Chef Thom: specialty sauces and The Perfect Butt
-- Flying Pig Farm: fresh cut flowers, several garlic varieties, garlic butters
            and spreads
-- Betty's Bloomers: heirloom vegetables, plants and flowers
-- Triple B Farm; pasture raised pork, beef, poultry and eggs
-- Redman Pottery: beautiful locally made pottery
--Robin's Nest: Home: garden and lawn sculpture
-- Sleepy Goat Farm: artisan goat cheese (chevre and hard cheeses)
-- Rocky Ridge Farm: vegetables, berries, grapes and more.
-- Wild Onion Farm: vegetables, eggs and more
-- John Buettner: specialty plants, tropicals, flowers and vegetables
            Joining the market later in the season are:
 -- Blueberry Hill, fresh blueberries and vegetables
-- Capritopia Farm, vegetables
-- Lovejoy Pottery beautiful hand made pottery
-- Mevins’ Gardens, herbs and plants
-- Jeffery’s Strawberry Patch
-- Homestead Flower Farm, fresh cut flowers and bouquets
-- Greenhill Farm, eggs, vegetables, baked goods and farm crafts
-- McCallisters, gourd art, herbs, garden related gifts and artwork
-- Meadowbright Farm, vegetables, eggs, flowers and more, catnip cat toys
-- Powell Roper and Victoria Pender, heirloom tomatoes and many more vegetables
-- William Lord, honey

            The farmers’ market is open from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday from April 7 through the end of October in the South White Street gazebo parking lot.