High Country Farmers Market

High Country Farmers Market brings a small Boone vendor mix that leans toward handmade foods, garden goods, and craft work rather than a long roster of lookalike stalls. The market’s current lineup ranges from scratch-made baked goods and gourmet pasta to spring vegetables, lettuces, plant material, eggs that may be available, and folk art from working studios. That gives this market a distinctly High Country feel: homestead growers and small makers selling products tied closely to their own kitchens, gardens, and studios. For shoppers in Boone, it reads as a compact stop where prepared foods and artisan goods share space with seasonal farm offerings.

What you'll find there

Sweeter by the Season, The Pasta Wench, and the homestead-focused vendors give this market a mix built as much around made-from-scratch food and small-scale production as around raw produce. Crafts are part of that mix too, with one vendor focused on beaded jewelry, prints, postcards, and posters tied to market photography.

• -Pick up scratch-made baked goods from Sweeter by the Season, a small local business using all-natural methods and organic and local ingredients in its seasonal offerings.
• -Look for featured sweets from Sweeter by the Season such as cupcakes, blueberry pie, and peach muffins, alongside other organic and natural baked treats.
• -Find one-of-a-kind beaded jewelry, animal-and-icon pendants, and assorted crafts from Kingfisher Crafts.
• -Browse Kingfisher Crafts for farmers market photography prints, postcards, and posters in addition to its jewelry work.
• -Shop The Appalachian Shed for garden-related plant material grown through organic, sustainable homestead practices.
• -Check The Appalachian Shed for heritage breed chicken eggs, which may be available, along with folk art from working studios.
• -Expect spring vegetables and lettuces from Buckskin Hollow, a homestead centered on living closer to the land and reducing petroleum-based energy use.
• -Bring home all-natural gourmet pasta from The Pasta Wench, a small family-owned company.
• -Add homemade gourmet sauces from The Pasta Wench, which uses 95% ingredients from North Carolina organic growers.

The overall selection is narrow but distinct: baked goods with rotating specialties, pasta and sauce for ready-to-cook meals, and a few vendors rooted in homestead growing and handcraft.

Know before you go

No dogs are allowed, which is the clearest visit rule to factor in before heading over. The market is at 178 King Street in Boone, a central in-town address that makes it easier to pair a stop here with other errands or downtown time. Restrooms are not available on site, so plan accordingly if you are building this into a longer outing. Payment methods are not clearly stated, and SNAP/EBT details are not listed here, so shoppers should come prepared with a flexible payment option. Given the current vendor mix, this market makes the most sense if you are specifically shopping for baked goods, pasta and sauce, garden plants, spring vegetables, eggs that may be available, or handmade crafts rather than expecting a broad general market spread.