This year’s summer solstice – the moment when the earth’s axis is most inclined toward the sun – will occur at 4:38 p.m. Sunday, June 21 – but the vendors at the Wake Forest Farmers Market are celebrating a day early with the “Turning of the Seasons.”
The events on Saturday, June 20, in the Renaissance Plaza in downtown Wake Forest will feature two turning masters. Jim Wallace produces kitchen implements, bowls and stools on his woodturning lathe. Nancy Redman is a well-known North Carolina potter who makes bowls, platters, garden art, vases and a variety of functional and whimsical clay objects. Both will give demonstrations that the whole family can enjoy.
The Wake Forest Master Gardeners will host the second of their Summer Children’s Garden Workshop Series, this time helping youngsters make pine cone bird feeders with the help of vegetable shortening, pine cones and bird seed.
The market, as always, will be open from 8 a.m. to noon, and the music this week will be by Willie Hill.
The drawing for the Father’s Day Gift Basket will take place at 11:30 a.m. Tickets may be purchased until 11:30 at the market manager’s booth. There is no need to be present to win.
Every week the market offers pasture-raised meat, eggs, honey, fresh flowers, baked goods both savory and sweet plus gluten-free baked goods, seasonal produce, and now fresh-picked peaches, perennial and annual plants, soap and lotions, pottery, bird houses and more!
Visit the Wake Forest Farmers Market on Facebook or www.wakeforestmarket.org.
