Just in time for the summer solstice on Monday, June 20, the Wake Forest Farmers Market will host The Turning of the Season on Saturday, June 18, a highly anticipated event when local wood turners and potters and other artisans demonstrate their crafts and sell their wares. Bring the children because they are always fascinated, watching a bowl emerge from a chunk of wood or a vase grow to its full height under a potter’s hand. Big folks like to watch as well.
Summer’s bounty is reaching the market which is open from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday in the Renaissance Plaza parking lot on Brooks Street at its intersection with Elm Avenue. You will find a variety of good things to eat and drink including peaches, blue berries, asparagus, seafood, coffee, baby spinach, whole-grain bread, cheese Danish, red and yellow grape tomatoes, kale, ham slices, granola, lamb chops along with much much more. There is music every fine Saturday and kids’ crafts in the play tent.
A partial list of vendors include the following although not every vendor is there every week: A Stitch Niche, Back Alley Roasters, Blueberry Hill, Brachi-Le Petit Roll, Brogden’s Produce, Bullocks Nursery, Edna Lee’s Farm, The Flour Garden, Gabie’s Garden Vegetables, Good Grace’s Dog Treats, Green Knight Farm, Heaven Scent Honey, Heritage Farm Eggs, Heritage Seafood, Homestead Flower Farm, Jay Woodcraft, Kalawi Farms, New Light Baskets, Poppy and Purl, Redman Pottery, Rolling Fog Farm, Serenity Meadows Farm, Strong Arm Baking Company, That’s Good Chocolate, Triple B Farms, Turtle Mist Farm, Walk Ahead Farms, WF Veterans Organizations, Wood Leaf Honey, Wrenns Farm and Yummies.
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.
