Galax Farmers Market July 10 & 11

I hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday week and is ready for another weekend!  I want to thank all of you that came out last Friday- we had a great time and got a lot of positive feedback about our little market. New vendor applications continue to come in, along with all the usual summertime produce, and we're looking forward to some new and different folks to begin selling over the next few weeks, so stay tuned.

 There are a couple of details I'd like to share with you regarding the Galax Farmers Market:
 July 17 & 18 the market will set up in the parking lot next to Rooftop of Virginia.  Main street will be pretty full with the Smoke on the Mountain BBQ events, so please use the entrance on Center street.  This is a temporary location for that weekend only, and we'll be back at the usual market pavilion the next weekend, July 31 & August 1.  Special thanks to the Gregorys for their generosity in lending the space.

The Annual Tomato Tasting will be sometime in the month of August- date TBD.  Each vendor will contribute samples of the tomatoes they have for sale that week.  Greg has agreed to the Master of Ceromonies duty again this year and it should be a lot of fun.  (Of course I'm not biased at all...:))

And as always, we welcome your ideas and feedback whenever you'd like to share.  Catch me at the market on Fridays, or reply to this message, or call me at home: 276-236-4572. 

This week:  Hollerview Farm in Galax will attend Friday only, and Dave and Sara Byrne will have fresh greens: broccoli, beet,kale,mustard as well as lettuce, onions, and cut flowers for sale.  Patriotic potatoes: red, white and blue. Stringless beans, purple and green. Baked goods- I eat a square of their apple cake every Friday!  Leroy Guynn will have potatoes, honey, some squash and the season's first cucumbers!  Groundswell Farm will have dill to go with those cukes, as well as basil, parsley, eggs, baby beets, and lots of lettuce.  Please note GF vends Friday only.  Raymond Worrell from Lazy Branch Creations really is coming this week, and apologies to those that were looking for him last Friday.  He'll have a selection of sweet jams and jellies and some savory. New this week: basil jelly.  (Ask him how he eats it!)  Raymond thinks he'll have blackberries in the next two weeks, too.  Mr. Walker should attend, also, with his fresh onions, homemade breads, applesauce, apple butter and beans.

Market hours are 8-1 Fridays and 9-1 Saturdays.  Don't forget to pick up a recipe or two while you're shopping- the recipe files have lots of different types of dishes, all utilizing what we have at our market.  Bon apetit!

Take care and see you soon-
Sara