Local Master Gardener Volunteers of Wake County have been regulars at the Wake Forest Farmer Market for many years, and this year they are expanding from helping adult gardeners to encouraging youngsters to become interested in gardening and nature.
The twice monthly children’s event will kick off Saturday, June 6, when the volunteers will show children how flowers and plants can be used to dye cloth and make artistic designs.
Children will choose flowers and leaves, lay them out on a quilt square and then use rubber mallets to smash them and transfer the dyes to the cloth. It’s cool. It’s very noisy. Kids love it. Bring your earplugs.
This will happen Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon though the market will be open from 8 to noon.
It is, of course, free, courtesy of the volunteers who will also answer questions from adults about their plant and gardening problems.
The Wake Forest Farmers Market is open every Saturday year round in the Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street.
This week drop by the manager’s booth and get a raffle ticket for this year’s Fathers Day gift basket. The winner will be announced June 20.
The Wake Forest Farmers Market is now advertising on the front page of The Wake Forest Gazette, and the ad has a link to the market’s website where Market Manager Robin Hendricks posts a list of that week’s vendors every Friday. Check it out.
For a full list of vendors and their wares, go to www.wakeforestfarmersmarket.org and you can also find the market on Facebook.
