Saturday, Sept.19, will be special at the Wake Forest Farmers Market because local crafts people have been invited to show and sell their wares.
Along with the usual vegetables, meats and eggs, you will find whimsical, practical, beautiful one-of-a-kind locally handmade crafts including children’s clothing, pottery, garden art, ready-made raised garden beds, houses for birds, bats and butterflies, paintings, colorful organizational accessories, stationery and cards, jewelry, wreaths, soaps, beauty products, butters and balms, candles, photography, toys, scarves, baby items, hand spun alpaca wool and hats, scarves, purses and dolls, crochet, knitted items and much more.
Some of the featured vendors include A Stitch Niche, Alpaca Dreams, Graceful Organization, Jewels of Turtle Mist Farm, Kookie, Papercuts, Painted Chicks, Poppy & Purl, Redman’s Pottery, Rose Trail Images and Serenity Meadows Farm. There may be more by Saturday.
The Wake Forest Farmers Market is open every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon in the parking lot at Renaissance Plaza near the town’s Renaissance Centre at the corner of Brooks Street and Elm Avenue. New visitors will be amazed at the variety of offerings from ripe peaches to honey to seasonal vegetables to breads and baked goods to handmade soaps to pasture-raised meats to seafood fresh from the coast.
You can always check www.wakeforestmarket.org for information about the vendors and the special visitors each week.
