Fog Likely Farm

Contact Larry Denney at 336-384-2779.

James Wilkes owns Faith Mountain Farm in Creston, NC.

He can be reached at:

• 489 Big Laurel Road
• Creston, NC, 28615
• 336-385-3510

Alicia Breton is the owner of My Favorite Plants Nursery. Her love of plants has led her to almost ten years of growing annuals, perennials and flowering shrubs. She now has a greenhouse and 4 coldframes; she uses these to protect plants in winter and spring.
In addition to the Farmers' Market, Alicia can be found at her greenhouse from 10 AM to 2 PM on Monday through Thursday, and on Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM. Call her at (336) 877-1155 or send an e-mail.
My Favorite Plants Nursery is located in Todd, North Carolina. From Boone, take Highway 194 North at New Market Center. Turn left at Three Top Road and continue for eight/tenths of a mile. The drive is on the left, there is a fencepost with the number 9570C.

Susan Graham enjoys going to the market even after more than 12 years of working long hours in her greenhouses. Her enthusiasm is made obvious by a trip to her greenhouse in Todd, NC. She takes meticulous care of her plants and is rewarded with outstanding blooms and foliage.

Susan grows perennials, amazing hanging baskets, and starts bedding plants from seed. You will find flats of petunias, French marigolds that grow to eight inches, and red, white and blue pansies. Susan also grows annual and perennial herbs, including bright and fragrant Pineapple Sage.

Susan Graham has won even more fans with her hand knitted and felted wool hats. Susan hand knits the hats from wool and wool/mohair blend yarn in a rainbow of colors and currently has three styles for you to choose from. One style features a rolled brim with fun fur trim, another has a narrow brim in solids and stripes with a braided hatband. A fashionable beret completes the collection. All of Susan's hats will fit an average adult's size head.

The hats can be hand washed in cool water with a mild detergent, then blocked over a form or bowl for drying to retain their shape.

E-mail Susan Allen Graham.

The Greenes have been a special part of the Watauga County Farmers' Market since 1995. Each week they present an abundant display of fresh produce, garden plants, and domestic items. Shoppers are quick to buy up their supply of fresh farm eggs each week, knowing the unrivaled quality of fresh farm eggs.

Gene's boundless garden yields a variety of vegetables throughout the growing season. Lettuce and other greens, strawberries, and broccoli usher in the season. An amazing variety of beans follow, Tenderette, White Half Runner, Pink Tip, Peanut, and October Bean are some of the choices.

Mid-July is the time to anticipate the sweet corn harvest, and home grown popcorn will also be available. Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, blueberries, potatoes and sweet potatoes, and other staples are popular in season. Ultimately, pumpkins steal the show, and the Greenes have a large selection.

Iva Lee Hayes has been with the Watauga County Farmers' Market since it's beginning. She helped organize the market in 1973 and saw it open the following year. At that time the market was located at Boondocks Plaza near Hampton's Body shop. Ten or twelve other vendors participated, but of them, only Iva Lee and her daughter Sissy Moore are still members of the Farmers' Market.

Iva Lee sells all kinds of jams, jellies, as well as local honey, but is most well known for her homemade kraut. She also specializes in freshly baked pumpkin cake.The first week of the market, she brought three pumpkin cakes which were immediately purchased by one of the other vendors. She started baking more, and many Saturdays would sell 40 or 50 individual cakes, some customers buying enough to freeze some for the long winter months ahead. In the last ten years, she has decreased her supply somewhat. Loyal customers know to come early to avoid disappointment.

Also at Iva Lee's booth are many handmade crafts, such as dolls, baby quilts and wall hangings. She also brings plants from her garden, especially hens and chicks.

Sandi Henry has been making baskets for 22 years. Her sister taught her how to make her first basket and she later studied books to learn additional techniques. She has been selling baskets at Watauga County Farmers' Market for twelve years, and is an art teacher at Appalachian Christian School.

Sandi makes her baskets from hand dyed reed and often uses grapevine to make free form handles. One of her most popular baskets is a biscuit basket that is used for serving bread at the table.

Sandi added decorative mosaic items to her inventory about five years ago. She applies hand made tiles or broken pottery to chairs, tables, vases and planters.

Sandy also offers perennial plants and bouquets from her garden.

Sandi welcomes special orders, call her at (828) 264-5549 or send an e-mail.

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Dickie Jarrett grows an amazing collection of beautiful and unusual plants in his three greenhouses in Newland, North Carolina. He especially likes unusual ferns, and has a wide assortment of hardy and tropical ferns ranging in size from huge Boston Ferns to diminuative Table Ferns. He grows the uncommon Australian Woods fern from divisions each year, and keeps a supply of Japanese and Lady in Red ferns on hand as well.

Lovers of easy-care houseplants will be delighted with Dickie's begonia collection. He has perfectly grown pots of Iron Cross, Angel Wing, and the facinating Escargot Begonias along with Nonstop tuberous Begonias with their colorful blooms. Dickie prepares all kinds of hanging baskets as well, including baskets with the mid-blue blooming streptocarpus that will easily provide color all summer long.

Dickie also grows garden plants for the landscape, he has lots of colorful daylilies and around 4,000 boxwood liners.

Be sure to see Dickie's colorful and inventive birdhouses and wind chimes. He has unique birdhouses made from pine, cherry, oak, maple and black walnut, and wonderful mechanical hummingbirds and bluebirds for your porch or deck.

Contact Dickie by e-mail or visit Briarpatch Greenhouse in Newland from till 5 on Monday through Saturday.

Lindy Johnson, J.Jackson and Allen Snyder all live in Trade, Tennessee and share a booth at Watauga County Farmers' Market. J. and Lindy have been vendors at the market for seven years, and Allen has been coming here for six years. Lindy and J. own Tennessee Rose Nursery and Allen owns Shady Acres Nursery. Both nurseries grow shrubs suitable for the Blue Ridge Mountain area.

Lindy and J. specialize in native azaleas, hardy Hydrangeas grown from seed, and blueberry bushes. They also supply Shiitake mushroom logs.

Azaleas are members of the Rhododenderon family; they are grouped together because of their flower structure. There are around four hundred decidious native azaleas and derivatives growing at Tennessee Rose Nursery. Some are becomming rare in the wild due to the pressures of development. The lovely and fragrant R. arborescens is already on the endangered plants list. Lindy and J. select the best wild forms as seed sources, then raise the best plants from the seedlings. These shrubs and trees are not bothered by disease, have a long bloom period, and are often fragrant. They range in color from white, pink, orange and red. All are very hardy in full sun to part shade. Some will not perform as well in the deep South, but some will do well as far north as zone 3.

A favorite evergreen Rhododendron is the Littleleaf Rhodendron. The foliage has a pleasant woodsy scent and there are clear pink blooms in early May. Later in the month look for Kalmia which is also known as mountain laurel, and oak leaf Hydrangea which grows naturally from North Carolina to Alabama.

E-mail Tennessee Rose.

Allen Snyder grows many popular types of flowering shrubs. Early in the season he has dwarf and semi-dwarf varieties of Wigelia blooming in shades of pink and red. These are Canadian selections and very hardy. Later he has ninebark with attractive dark leaves, butterfly bushes, and varieties of Clethra including 'Hummingbird" and '16 Candles". He also grows evergreen shrubs such as boxwoods and false cypress ranging in size from low growing varieties to ten foot specimans.