Celebrate the solstice at the market’s Turning of the Season
Have you ever watched as a wood turner “finds” the bowl inside a tree crotch? Been fascinated as sloppy wet clay grows to become a vase? Looked closely at hanks of yarn and thread and then wondered how artists can assemble them into an art object or weave them into a table runner or blanket to treasure?
The Turning of the Season has been a favorite family fun day for years at the Wake Forest Farmers Market as children and adults alike watch, fascinated, as artists and artisans use their turning tools to create beauty. This year everyone is invited to watch wood turner Jim Wallace, potter Nancy Redman and fabric artist Sharron Parker demonstrate the techniques that go back centuries. You can also watch them at home at https://jimwallacewoodturning.com, http://redmanpottery.com and http://sharronparker.com/home.html.
If you can turn yourself away, you will find that summer’s bounty is pouring into the market with greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, asparagus, blueberries, peaches and peach ice cream. There are all the vendors with their varieties of meats – beef, chicken, pork, goat, lamb, turkey and rabbit – in cuts or made into sausages, eggs, seafood, local honey, baked goods, fresh-cut flowers, herbs, perennial and annual plants, chocolate, fair trade coffee, jewelry, baskets, wood craft, soaps, lotions and dog treats.
There will be music, kids crafts in the play tent, and Master Gardeners Kids Camp this week.
The farmers market 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.
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.
