Cantaloupe, watermelon, peaches and peach ice cream, blueberries, tomatoes, sweet corn – all the special food treats of summer are for sale every Saturday morning at the Wake Forest Farmers Market in the Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street.
This coming Saturday, July 30, members of Wake Forest Arts will offer cool crafts for children from 9 a.m. to noon. The market is open from 8 a.m. to noon. There is always free music – leave a tip, the musicians are not paid – along with Master Gardener volunteers to help with your gardening problems and veterans in the VFW tent ready to give you a quip or take your money for one of their raffles.
If you like to eat well, you can find everything for a week’s meals at the market beginning with the many varieties and cuts of meats – beef, chicken, pork, goat, lamb, turkey and rabbit – along with eggs, seafood, breads and baked goods, fair trade coffee, chocolate and local honey.
There are also a number of other vendors offering jewelry, baskets, wood products, soaps, lotions, dog treats, fresh-cut flowers, perennial and annual plants, and herbs.
If you go to www.wakeforestfarmersmarket.org you can find the vendor list with a profile and contact information for each. The market is also on Facebook.
