Farmers Market update for July 16, 2021
All sections of the market are now open. Be sure to visit all three!
Market hours:
Tuesday: 8am - 2pm
Saturday: 8am - 2pm
Come visit NC Cooperative Extension - Lenoir County Center's Locally Delicious corner and sample a tasty treat that will sure to please your taste buds!
Special Event planned by our vendors
Our vendors will spiff up their booths and have special prices for their first “Christmas in July” sale. Come to the market to get a head start on your holiday shopping.
Vendors for Saturday
Barnet Cattle Farm - this beef is delicious. Do yourself a favor, talk to Melissa about her farm and buy your family grass fed beef, light the grill, and enjoy it.
TC Smith Produce - will bring freshly dug potatoes, canning tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, bell peppers, cantaloupe, watermelon, okra, bi-color, yellow and white corn and a variety of jarred pickles and veggies.
Porters Farms - will offer Heirloom tomatoes, green and speckled butterbeans , pink eye purple Hull peas, tomatoes, sweet corn, cucumbers, squash, and local blueberries, plums, peaches, watermelon, cantaloupe.
Kettle Style Snacks - Rodney's back from vacation with pork skins, pork rinds and fried peanuts.
GrassRoots Pork Company - Stop by and talk to Jessica about their method of raising their pigs......very interesting The Joneses raise Certified Animal Welfare Approved by a Greener World and Certified Non-GMO by AGW pigs outdoor and on the range. See Jessica for absolutely delicious sausage, pork chops, and more.
B & B Eggs - These eggs are really fresh and really good...Sandra will be at her booth on Saturday with sunflowers and fresh-cut flower bouquets in a vase.
TJ Designs - Teri will bring her delightful designs to help accessorize your home. Some are seasonal and some are timeless.
It's Holy Granola - An all-natural treat that can be used as a topping for yogurt or ice cream may be added to oatmeal, sprinkled on fruit, or just eaten by the handful as a healthy snack.
Cotton Blossom Bakery - A special selection of cookies. They are snapped up quickly, so shop early.
Above the Briery - Above the Briery will be at the market with lovely honey, a variety of native plants, and a challenge. See if you can find which of the photos show Poison Ivy. Anyone giving it a try gets a free honey stick!
If you have a specific interest in plants, let me know. There are too many to bring at once! For now, I am planning on the following perennials - two types of milkweed, coneflowers, Joe Pye Weed, Blue Mistflower, and Elephant's Foot. Shrubs - Beautyberry, Oakleaf Hydrangea, and Elderberry. Vines - Climbing Hydrangea and Crossvine. Ferns - Christmas, Sensitive, and Broad Beech. ALSO for you coastal place folks -three types of flowering plants (from Bogue Banks ecotype seeds) to support our Crystal Skipper butterfly that exists only along Bogue Banks! Check out the article in the current issue of NC Sea Grant Coastwatch magazine. https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/coastwatch/current-issue/summer-2021/the-butterfly-effect/?fbclid=IwAR1fZXWZ3fyps0ippd_A-iZu8tzBYKedC9S9ABWxHVLzrsoNVNy0YHepMZc
REGULAR VENDORS WHO WILL NOT BE HERE THIS WEEK :
-Andria's Crafts
-Seraphim Smith
-Happy Hearts Elderberry Syrup
-Family Craziness
-Kelly Bluhm
-Brothers Farm
