Saturday August 8th and Sunday August 9th

1 pm to 5 pm both days

Join local farmers and Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture for a fun-filled summer weekend! Enjoy the bounty of food and flowers in the beautiful North Carolina mountains while supporting local sustainable farms in Allegheny, Ashe, Watauga and Wilkes Counties. Interviews with the farmers will be posted on the High Country Farm Tour Blog.

Wrist bands are $20 in advance or $25 if purchased at a farm, and are good for one carload of people for the entire weekend—or pay $10 per farm. Buy a wristband in advance for only $20 from a location below.

• Ashe County Farmers’ Market, Saturdays & Wednesdays, 8AM-1PM
  “Back Street” of West Jefferson off Jefferson Ave/Hwy 88N
• Bare Essentials Natural Market
  273 Boone Heights Drive, Boone 828-262-5592
• Earth Fare
  178 West King Street, Boone 828-263-8138
• Original Mast General Store in Valle Crucis
  Highway 194, Valle Crucis 828-963-6511
• Mast General Store in Downtown Boone
  630 West King Street, Boone 828-262-0000
• Spin A Yarn
  207 Backstreet, West Jefferson 336-846-7746
• Watauga County Farmers’ Market, Saturday mornings, Wednesdays 4-7 PM
  Horn in the West parking lot off Hwy 105 Extension in Boone 1-828-355-4918

Credit card purchaces can be made at Earthfare in Boone.

Download the High Country Farm Tour Map or the BRWIA Farm Tour Brochure or pick one up at one of the above locations.

Volunteers are needed and can attend the tour for free on the day they are not volunteering. To register as a volunteer please send an email with your name, phone number, day and time you’re available, and farm preference (if any).

Volunteers should arrive 20 minutes early to meet the farm owner and learn what they will need help with. They should bring a chair, water and change for selling wrist bands. The volunteer packet will contain 10 wristbands for on-site sales. The wrist bands are $25 per car and a single farm visit is $10. Please print out an attendance sheet using our Word Document or PDF.

Questions? Please call Kelly Jo at 304-923-7474.

The map below is for reference only. Please use the specific directions given by the farmers in the brochure to travel to the farms. A larger version of the map can be found at HomeGrown Directory

[gmap markers=green::36.58309,-81.586018:Big Horse Creek Farm
1610 Old Apple Rd
Lansing, NC + 36.19593210228108,-81.78754806518555:ASU Agroecology Research Farm
Dutch Creek Rd
Valle Crucis, NC, 28679
+ 36.21643202286343,-81.7862606048584:Watauga River Farms
2953 NC Hwy 194S
Valle Crucis, NC, 28679 + 36.205633,-81.669656:Spin A Yarn
207 Backstreet
West Jefferson, NC, 28694+ 36.388145,-81.500026:Crosscreek Farm
2416 Nile Road
Sparta, NC, 28675
+ 36.23458139660314,-81.2427806854248:Tumbling Shoals Farm
Tumbling Shoals Road
Wilkes County
+ 36.54315657733332,-81.43306732177734:Zydeco Moon Farm
2220 Big Helton Road
Grassy Creek, NC 28631
+ 36.53832942872818,-81.29977226257324:Rocking S Farm
567 Garvey Road
Piney Creek, NC, 28663
+ 36.50729056377847,-81.56185626983643:Old Orchard Creek
410 Swansie Shepherd Road
Lansing, NC, 28643 + 36.195257,-81.820786:Apple Hill Farm, LLC
400 Apple Hill Road
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