May 30, 2007

Published in Wake Forest, NC

            They will receive balloons, eat the Vollmer Farm Famous Strawberry Ice Cream, make clay pottery, and decorate the gazebo parking lot with sidewalk chalk art.

            They can keep time to the music with bamboo clacking sticks, and there will be a special children’s performance on the hammered dulcimer.

            For everyone, the market vendors will be holding a drawing for some fabulous prizes donated by downtown Wake Forest merchants: coupons for Domino’s Pizza, a beautiful beaded purse from Sunny Side Up Tanning Salon and Boutique, and a one-hour massage from Heavenly Appearances Spa.

            Also, everyone should visit all the vendors to find the special treats around the market.

            You can find a host of vendors at the market every Saturday. It is open from 8 a.m. to noon in the gazebo parking lot on South White Street where vendors offer locally grown produce, meats, poultry and cheese along with baked goods, crafts, jellies, soaps, candles, lotions, sauces, garlic, pottery and garden art.

            The following vendors are regulars at the market:

• Mapleville Fruit and Berry Farm: jellies, jams and stained-glass art.

• Cedar Rock Farms: shitakes, vegetables, eggs, chickens and pheasants.

• Blessed Be Soaps: aromatherapy soaps, candles, lotions and more.

• The Flour Garden: breads, pies, pastries from organic locally milled flours and grains.

• Whetstone Homegrown Farm: specialty plants and trees, vegetables and fruits

• Homestead Farms: fresh cut flowers.

• Greenhill Farm: spring vegetables, baked goods and farm crafts.

• Chef Thom: specialty sauces and The Perfect Butt.

• Flying Pig Farm: fresh cut flowers, several varieties of garlic, 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 sculptures.

• Sleepy Goat Farm, artisan goat cheese (chèvre and hard cheeses).

• Rocky Ridge Farm: vegetables, berries, grapes and more.

• Wild Onion Farm: vegetables, eggs and more

• John Buettner: specialty plants, tropical plants, flowers and vegetables.

• Jeffrey’s Strawberry Patch.

• Local Master Gardeners to answer questions about your gardens and plants.

            Other vendors who will be appearing soon are:

• Blueberry Hill: fresh blueberries and vegetables

• Capritopia Farm: vegetables

• Lovejoy Pottery: beautiful handmade pottery.

• Melvin’s Gardens: herbs and plants

• 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.

            To find out more, go to http://www.wakeforestmarket.org.