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Special Events at the Market 2024
(5/7) Opening Day (5/21) Pollinator Day (6/4) Climate Smart Farm Day (6/25) Appalachian Day (7/23) Senior Day (8/21) Tomato Day (9/17) Pepper Festival (10/8) Día Latino (10/22) Fall Festival (10/29) Halloween! |
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Attagirl Boutique started as a hobby, which turned into a small business, due to the positive feedback from costumers. Ivette started making just hairbows and dog bandanas. She originally started making dog bandanas because her girl dog Maddie needed something cute to wear, and she is not a fan of dog clothes. She got a lot of compliments on the bandanas and started adding dog items to my collection. Some of her popular items are dog bandanas and sailor bows for dogs. Ivette is a resident of Watauga County a have been for over 32 years and is passionate about dogs. She is always looking for new ideas and to create products for dogs and their owners.
Facebook: @attagirlboutiqueboone Instagram:@attagirlboutiqueboone |
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B.A.D. Composting is a compost co-op that collects food scraps from individuals as well as providing gardening help like building compost bins and permaculture gardens. Soil is the basis of life, and by diverting food scraps from the waste stream and creating soil, they are giving new life to our communities. It’s Born Again Dirt!
Learn more: www.bit.ly/badcomposting Instagram: @b.a.dcomposting Facebook: @b.a.dcomposting |
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Carringer Farms: Don has farmed all his life-family gardens and farming with his grandparents/parents. Don and Belinda have had their farm in Franklin, NC for 10 years and participated in several different farmers markets and sold to several restaurants. In 2022, they sold their farm in Franklin and bought a 9-acre farm in Altamont, NC. They will be growing a lot of vegetables in the spring. They also grow microgreens and still have their bees that pollinate their crops, so they will have honey. They grow a lot of their plants from seed. Belinda makes jams, jellies, preserves, and relishes, along with baked goods.
Learn more: http://www.carringerfarms.com/ Facebook: Carringer Farms Instagram: @carringerfarms |
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Cat and Fiddle Co. crafts tallow based skincare infused with whole botanicals to soothe and nourish your skin. They hand-render local pasture raised tallow for moisturizers, lip balms, scrubs, and salves. Alongside their tallow, they offer a range of toners, masks, serums, and so much more! Free from unnecessary chemicals and fillers, Cat and Fiddle Co. products are designed to embrace the purity of nature, prioritizing local ingredients and traditional methods
Learn more: http://catandfiddleco.com Instagram: @catandfiddleco |
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Four Winds Farm is a woman owned and operated small farm located just outside of Boone. They strive to serve the community with sustainable, forest raised, non-GMO fed pork, organically raised vegetables, free range eggs, and seasonal flowers.
Learn more: http://www.fourwindsfarmboone.com/ Instagram: @fourwindsfarm.boone Facebook: @fourwindsfarm.boone |
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Persephone's Garden (fka Opossum Bottom) is a small urban farm nestled against the mountains in Johnson City TN. Way back in the 70s, Chris started gardening with his great aunt. While helping her in her garden, she taught him how to grow things without the assistance of synthetic products, which now, fast forward 40 years, is a more familiar term, organic. While many of the methods have changed since then, the base fundamentals of growing sustainably, improving the land on which you grow, and providing synthetic free food are still the same. Opossum Bottom strives to incorporate those fundamentals in their practices so that their produce is free of all synthetic products. No pesticides, no fungicides, no herbicides, nothing, just good practices, natural fertilizers, rainwater, and a love of growing.
Instagram: @persephonesfarmandgarden |
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Sheraton Park Farms is a local, regenerative agriculture farm located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in McGrady, North Carolina. They raise beef cattle, chickens for eggs, chickens for meat, turkeys and their favorite.....pigs! Ethically raised, pastured meats without antibiotics, steroids, or fertilizers!
Learn more: http://www.sheratonparkfarms.com/ Instagram: @sheratonparkfarms Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SheratonParkFarms/ |
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Lemon Lips / The Drink Machine produces fresh squeezed drinks on the spot for you. This means they cut the fruit and smash it when you order. You see the entire process while you wait. Their bottled drinks are produced in West Jefferson, North Carolina.
Learn more: http://lemonlipslemonade.fun/ Instagram: @lemon_lips_lemonade |
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Allyson Murphy Art: Allyson sells prints and originals of her illustrative landscape watercolor paintings that range in size from 4x4 to 8x10 pieces.
Learn more: http://www.etsy.com/shop/AllysonMurphyArt Instagram: @allysonmurphyart |
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Bug Lovers Native Plants is a nursery specializing in native perennial wildflowers, shrubs, trees, and grasses for home gardens and landscapes. Their focus is to sustainably produce plants native to the Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont of North Carolina with maximum benefit to wildlife and providing connections between homeowners and the surrounding ecosystems. All of their plants are grown from seed in Ashe County and do not use pesticides of any kind. Bug Lovers offers local ecotypes whenever possible and their practices include using containers made from recycled plastic or plant-based fibers. They offer a range of plants, but many are ideal for supporting pollinators and beneficial insects.
Learn More: http://www.bugloversnativeplants.com/ Facebook: @bugloversnativeplants Instagram: @bugloversnativeplants |
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Sleepy Bird Farm is the project of Pete LeGrand and Katie Bruce. Currently they are located on the Farm Incubator and Grower (FIG) in Valle Crucis. They are both interested in building their careers in farming and are excited about this opportunity to start! Katie and Bruce have been thoroughly blessed to have access to this land and are using this opportunity to grow a variety of vegetables and flowers for the community to enjoy!
Instagram: @sleepybirdfarm |
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Gala Crafts creates stained glass pieces. Their goal with stained glass is to capture all the wild, varied, spectacular colors and textures of nature in unique art, glass pieces. They love adding copper wire, antique glass plates, and even occasional spoons to their pieces to accentuate the natural movement of the glass. Whenever possible, they incorporate found and recycled glass, wire and bevels into their pieces. Gala Crafts has been working in the medium for over 20 years and has learned (sometimes the hard way) to love the music of breaking glass.
Learn more: www.galacrafts.com Instagram: @galacrafts Facebook: @GalaCraftArtisans |
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Ginny's Custom Creations specializes in beautiful wood turned craft items and operates out of Ashe and Watauga county.
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The Bag Lady makes an assortment of bags: market bags, travel bags, cross-body and shoulder bags at her home here in Boone. They are made of stain and water resistant upholstery material sourced from local upholsterers
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Pleasant Creek Farm, home of Handmaid Creations, is located in Trade, TN. They specialize in wholesome, natural body care for affordable prices and are committed to sustainable practices on their farm. They grow healthy and nutritionally dense vegetables and fruits using low/no-till gardening strategies mixed in with a bit of permaculture and experimentation.
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Blue Ridge Fiber Guild's purpose is to share fellowship and inspiration with other people with any level of interest and ability in any fiber arts and crafts; to share knowledge and skills with each other and the surrounding community; to promote to the community the fiber arts and crafts; to provide opportunities for revenue for the guild and for its active members.
Facebook: Blue Ridge Fiber Guild Group Instagram: @blueridgefiberguild |
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Forest Forage a first-generation family farm rooted in Butler, Tennessee. They approach farming as the central piece of building healthy, resilient, connected communities.
They practice diversified bio-intensive farming methods from inoculating mushroom logs, which are sourced locally and sustainably, to regenerative seasonal vegetable and herb production that promotes a healthy, balanced farm ecosystem. They are able to achieve zero to low tillage methods by incorporating crop and animal rotation, intentionally selected produce varieties, nutrient dense compost, and organic soil fertilizers when necessary. Forest Forage does NOT use harmful chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides) & GMO seeds on their farm. Instagram: @forest_forage_farm |
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Forgotten Way Farm. Offering grass finished beef and lamb, organically fed pork and eggs, they focus on the wellbeing of the animal — allowing them to exhibit their natural behavior and feeding on their natural diet as much as possible. Forgotten Ways Farm uses their farming practices only to manage the forages and land their livestock graze. They feel their holistic livestock approach offers the most nutrient dense products available.
Learn More: www.forgottenwayfarms.com Facebook: Forgotten Way Farm |
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Foggy Valley is a small scale homestead and pottery studio and are located in Sugar Grove, NC. The homestead is 100% organic and follows regenerative practices (no till, no chemical inputs of any kind, rotational crops). In addition to industrial clay, their pottery is made with wild clay harvested and processed in thier homestead. They hope to sell a mix of produce and pottery at this market, and while they have sold pottery in other markets, this will be their first year offering farm grown products, which will include garlic, eggs, greens, tomatoes, among others.
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Hellbender Farm is a sustainably-run farmstead and sheep farm in Ashe County, NC. They are named after the iconic and rare aquatic giant salamander that lives alongside the trout in nearby Helton Creek. In addition to being a working farm, they host weddings and events, farmstays, and starting in 2024, cut-your-own flowers and tea tastings on select weekends.
Hellbender Farm strives to run a sustainable farm and business. To them, this means using organic practices in farm fields, raising sheep humanely and with plenty of fresh grass to forage, minimizing plastics and other unsustainable materials in their packaging, using zero emissions electric vehicle for transport of products to and from the market, paying a livable wage to anyone they work with, and thinking through the impacts of their actions on their community and the environment. Learn more: www.hellbenderfarm.com Instagram: @hellbenderfarm |
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Laughing Springs Farm is located on the edge of Boone on 17 acres of land that they are grateful to begin stewarding. Established in early 2022, they are building their farm slowly as they come to better know the land with each season. They are still evolving their farm focus, but for now, they will be growing and sharing fresh diversified vegetables, milled corn products (grits, cornmeal) and medicinal herbal products.
Although new to the Boone area, they have been organic farmers for the past 25 years in a variety of places - as owners, managers, breeders, seed producers, educators - they have tried a bit of everything - and the learning never stops. They are looking forward to sharing their harvest with you! Learn more: www.laughingspringsfarm.com Instagram: @laughingspringsfarm |
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Land of Milk and Honey Farms is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC (Deep Gap) and run by Brad and Christa. They are a small farm providing USDA inspected beef and lamb, as well as honey, eggs, baked goods (by order), beeswax candles, raspberry starts (seasonally), and leather crafts. They have just under 25 bee hives which they collect from usually in the fall for their honey and also their beeswax for use in items such as candles. Land of Milk and Honey also offers baked goods like true sourdough bread made without commercial yeast, cookies, granola, bars, etc. Christa also does some leather products like purse clutches, wallets, and earrings. They welcome you to come and visit their small farm in Deep Gap and hopefully soon at their self serve farm stand.
Learn More: www.landofmilkandhoneyfarmnc.com Facebook: @landofmilkandhoneyfarms_llc Instagram: @landofmilkandhoneyfarms_llc |
