Flat Rock Tailgate Market News - Oct. 29, 2009

Flat Rock Tailgate Market
Thursday, October 29th, 3 to 6 p.m.

Come get your pumpkin! Select from freshly carved or paint your own pumpkin. Or choose a not yet carved pumpkin ready for your own touch or simply bake them to use in soups, pies or other scrumptious deserts!!


Market Favorites: Jams, jellies, relishes, pickled okra, herbal teas or vinegars. Fresh beef, lamb and free range chicken & eggs. Fresh fish & seafood. Goat cheeses. Hummus & baba ganoush.

Fresh Baked Goods: Take home banana or pumpkin breads made with Amish flour, hearth baked breads, mamoul (semolina short bread) with strawberry & pecans, plain or herbed pita bread, baklawa, fruit tarts, awesome pecan bars or chocolate/caramel brownies.

Order Pies for the Holidays! Marvelous Pies are now taking orders for apple ($15), pumpkin, chess or sweet potato ($9) pies for the holidays. Stop and see Lisa or call her at (864) 908-2134.

Vendor of the Month: Melinda Hill
Melinda's been busy collecting pinecones, vines & curly willow branches in the woods for fall decorations in your home. Check out her herb vinegars and HOT peppers.

This Weeks Vegetables: Collards & mustard greens, lettuce & salad mixes, onions, white salad turnips, blue potatoes, Kennebec potatoes (a Main standard), delicious Yukon Gold & Red Pontiac potatoes (an ole' time favorite). New this week: leeks that can be can be fused into a scrumptious potato/leek soup, just right for these cooler, fall temperatures. Many traditional & Japanese winter squashes & pumpkins to purchase or bring your orders to Mollie for 1/2 bushels of squash - $20 for butternut, acorn or a mix.


Happy Halloween!!

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Sorry, no sales before 3:00 p.m

MountainXpress Best of WNC 2009 Awards

Several Flat Rock area businesses received honors in the MountainXpress Best of WNC 2009 Awards.

Carl Sandburg Home Best Little-Known Attraction

Best Art gallery:

#1 Hand in Hand Gallery 2720 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 697-7719 Where better to begin a gallery than as an artist studio? Jeweler Molly Sharp and potter David Voorhees did just that nearly 13 years ago. Their own studios have long since been relocated to make way for a variety of Southeastern artists, many of whom are members of the storied Southern Highland Craft Guild.

Festival

#2 Flat Rock Music Festival www.flatrockmusicfestival.com

Little-known attraction

#1 Carl Sandburg Home 81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat Rock, 693-4178 In 1945, the writer, poet and historian moved to 264 acres of Flat Rock countryside he named "Connemara" and spent the last 22 years of his life there. Today, the house and grounds are open for touring, and many of his books and papers are still on display.

#3. Flat Rock Playhouse 2661 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 693-0731

Music venue

#1 Back Room at the Flat Rock Wine Shoppe 2702 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 697-6828 With a capacity of only 100, the Back Room is what they call "intimate." But that's what owner David Brannock thinks brings an impressive list of local and touring acts back again and again. "True musicians want to play to people who want to listen," he says. The venue turned 4 years old last month.

#2 Flat Rock Playhouse 2661 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 693-0731

To view the complete list of winners in all categories visit MountainXpress - Best of WNC Regional Sections

Flat Rock Tailgate Market News - October 15, 2009

Flat Rock Tailgate Market
Thursday, October 15th, 3 to 6 p.m.


This Weeks Fruits & Vegetables: There will be local organic apples, potatoes, several varieties of winter squashes, eggplant, hot peppers - fresh or dried, sweet red peppers, fall lettuce & salad mixes, heirloom & slicing tomatoes, Lima beans, shiitake & what ever wild mushrooms pop up after all this wet weather!

Market Favorites: Fresh cut flowers, herb plants & hanging baskets. Angus beef, lamb, rabbit, chicken and free-range eggs. Fresh whole fish, shrimp, scallops and oysters. Goat cheeses. Jams, jellies, relishes, hummus & baba ganoush.

Fresh Baked Goods: Herb crackers & cookies from Jane, plain & herbed pita bread, baklawa & Mamoul with figs from his own tree at Majdi's booth, hearth baked breads, cookies, fruit tarts, Sweet Girl pecan bars, mint frosted brownies, peanut butter crunch bars and maybe a few more surprises.

Get some organic apples or pumpkins to
make your own special deserts!

Vendor of the Month: Melinda Hill

Stop by the "Flower Lady", and select from the brightly colored bouquets for your home. While there check out her spicy pickled vegetable mixes or her hand strung dried hot peppers.

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SEE YOU THERE!!
Sorry, no sales before 3:00 p.m.

Flat Rock Tailgate Market News - October 8, 2009

This Weeks Fruits & Vegetables: Japanese eggplant, okra, fresh & dried hot peppers, heirloom and salad tomatoes, winter & summer squash, pumpkins, salad mix, green & red bell peppers. Pears & many types of apples.

Market Favorites: Fresh fish & seafood. Lamb, beef, chicken and free-range eggs. Goat cheeses. Jams, jellies, relishes, honey, hummus & baba ganoush.

Fresh Baked Goods: Three different fruit tarts, chocolate/mint cheesecake bites, cranberry coconut chocolate crunch bars, pecan bars and maybe a few more surprises from Kristen's booth this week. Hearth baked breads, cookies, plain & herbed pita bread, baklawa, apple, chess & pumpkin pies or try a waffle cone with apple filling to munch on while shopping.

More Market Favorites: Fresh cut flowers, herb plants, hanging baskets, herb teas & bath sachets.

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See you there!

Sorry, no sales before 3:00 p.m.

Flat Rock Tailgate Market News - Vendor of the Month for October

Flat Rock Tailgate Market to Feature Melinda Hill as Vendor of the Month of October

The Flat Rock Tailgate Market will feature Melinda Hill of Hill’s Farm Plants, Inc. in Dana, as “Vendor of the Month” of October. Melinda grows greens, herbs, beans, onions, gourds, lots of peppers (hot and sweet) and a large variety of flowers (her favorites) including sunflowers, zinnias and dahlias. She sells at the Flat Rock Tailgate Market held every Thursday afternoon from 3-6.

Melinda grew up in Hooper’s Creek, NC and is the youngest of three girls. While growing up, her family grew most of their own food and preserved vegetables and fruit by pickling, canning and freezing. She and her husband now own their own farm which has been chemical free for the past seven years. When not gardening or marketing, Melinda enjoys reading the history of women from our mountain region to learn their survival techniques. “I still don’t understand how they were able to do all the work they did!”
vendor of the month

Flat Rock Tailgate Market News - October 1, 2009

Flat Rock Tailgate Market
Thursday, October 1st, 3 to 6 p.m.

Pumpkins, Pumpkins & More Pumpkins!!

Vendor of the Month: Melinda Hill
Melinda & her husband, of Hill's Farm Plants, Inc. in Dana, grows greens, herbs, beans, onions, gourds, lots of peppers and a large variety of flowers (her favorite) including sunflowers, zinnias & dahlias. Visit Melinda & try a sample of her pickled "Dilly Beans" or her vinegars infused with herbs.

Market Favorites: Jams, jellies, relishes, pickled okra, pickled peppers, tomato chutney, herbal teas, rosemary & blueberry vinegars. Angus beef, lamb and free range chicken & eggs. Fresh fish & seafood. Goat cheeses. Hummus & baba ganoush.

Fresh Baked Goods: New vendor, Marvelous Pies, will have apple, chess & pumpkin pies. Take home hearth baked breads, plain or herbed pita bread, baklawa, fruit tarts & tartlets, awesome pecan bars, mint frosted brownies, giant peanut butter Rice Krispie treats and herbed cookies & crackers.

This Weeks Fruits & Vegetables: There will be apples & pears, beets, salad greens mixes, eggplant, okra, potatoes, beans, fresh & dried hot peppers, sweet peppers, acorn, butternut & Japanese squash, heirloom tomatoes, salad & slicing tomatoes with half bushels of Roma tomatoes for canning, freezing or drying.

More Market Favorites: Fresh cut flowers, rose bushes, herb plants, hanging baskets, and Japanese Maples.

News From Deep Woods Mushrooms: Stop by to see Greg & sign up for a mushroom hunt this Saturday from 3 - 5 p.m. in Etowah. Also hot off the press "Shiitake Happens" t-shirts. Due to the significant rains in September, there will be a limited supply of fresh shiitake this week.


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See you at the Market!
Sorry, no sales before 3:00 p.m.