Jean Gordon
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 9:27 am

The Farmers Market in Lake Lure returns again Friday, May 11 for the second week this season. The market will be open each Friday until the end of October. Hours are 3-7pm each Friday.

The Farmers Market is located this year at Morse Park, 2926 Memorial Highway, between the Lake Lure Welcome Center and Washburn Marina.

Local farmers and hand craft artisans will be present to sell their food and wares.

There will be special live entertainment each week and a visit from a featured food truck.

Rutherford Barn, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization manages the Rutherford County Farmers Market with the intention of assisting in the development of a vibrant, sustainable, local food system that will be able to nourish most of the residents of Rutherford County.

Rutherford Barn staff and volunteers believe in the importance of shopping local, and are devoted to increasing the ease with which residents are able to procure the healthiest, freshest, and most nutritious foods available.

The Farmers Market only allows for the direct sale of farm and garden raised products from within a strictly local area, including Rutherford County and any contiguous county. Artisan vendors are allowed based on space availability and through a juried process managed by a subcommittee of Rutherford BARN, not made up of current vendors for the sake of transparency and equability.

Artisans create everything they sell. Farmers grow everything they sell, or work together with another local farmer to increase the availability of these hyper-local goods, always with transparency.