C A R T E R E T C O U N T Y FRESH HARVEST DATES FARM for VEGETABLES in CARTERET COUNTY STANDS Farmers and gardeners in Carteret County are able to harvest fresh, healthy vegetables almost every month of the year. Some vegetables grow best in the cool, shorter days of late winter and early spring, others need warm summer soils, and some prefer that time when summer begins to fade to fall. This chart helps you understand which vegetables are freshly harvested and ready for your table each month of the year here in Carteret County.

If you want to preserve any of these vegetables For more information and classes about gardening, or food while they are fresh and abundant, consider production, preparation, and preservation, plus health and canning, freezing or pickling. nutrition, go to the Carteret County Cooperative Extension’s website: http://carteret.ces.ncsu.edu VEGETABLES ASPARAGUS KALE Choose a TURNIP & MUSTARD GREENS month and slide KOHLRABI your finger down LETTUCES to see what vegetables are BEETS & RADISHES being harvested COLLARDS, CHINESE CABBAGE that month. ONIONS

SPRING PEAS (ENGLISH, SNAP, SNOW) CROPS SEASON BROCCOLI, CABBAGE Choose a vegetable C R Y S T A L C O A S T TURNIPS and slide your finger across to find the STRAWBERRIES month when LEEKS it will be ready. produce POTATOES GREENHOUSE TOMATOES & CUCUMBERS

SUMMER SQUASH (ZUCCHINI, YELLOW, PATTY PAN)

CUCUMBERS (SLICING AND PICKLING) CrystalThe SNAP BEANS (GREEN BEANS) ’S SWEET CORN SOUTHERNCoast ® MELONS (CANTELOPE & OTHERS) OKRA TOMATOES, PEPPERS & EGGPLANT SUMMER FOR YOUR HOME GARDEN: CROPS SEASON FIELD PEAS (COWPEAS) GROWN HERBS & FLOWERS WATERMELON VEGETABLE and HERB SWEET POTATOES

SEEDLINGS KALE MUSTARD GREENS

TURNIPS & RUTABAGAS EDGEWATER COLLARDS GARDENS • CABBAGE

Robin Pitten CROPS SEASON BROCCOLI & CAULIFLOWER FALL/WINTER 358 Hwy 70E WINTER SQUASH (BUTTERNUT & ACORN) Williston, NC PUMPKIN (252) 729-1842

NEWPORT GARDEN CENTER • Wally Emory & Heidi Skinner for more information go to: http://carteret.ces.ncsu.edu 291 Chatham Street Newport, NC (252) 223-4120 to Havelock 2 to New Bern 70 NEWPORT 70 to Ocracoke 7 6 4 THE PLANT STAND 1 at FRIENDLY MARKET MOREHEAD CITY 58 2 • 101 24 Greg & Jackie Garner to Jacksonville CAPE 3 BEAUFORT 205 Friendly Road SWANSBORO CARTERET

Morehead City, NC ATLANTIC BEACH HARKERS 5 Fort Macon facebook.com/theplant 8 State Park ISLAND standatthefriendlymarket EMERALD ISLE

Hammocks Beach Cape State Park REDFEARN’S Lookout NURSERY, INC • 1. GARNER FARMS 3. GUTHRIE FARM PRODUCE 6. SIMPSON’S FARM Allan & Judy Redfearn Newport: 173 Sam Garner Road 5417 Highway 24, Newport 743 Highway 70, Bettie New Bern: 501 Garner Road 4. JW MERRELL FARM 7. WILLIS FARM 1018 Cedar Point Blvd 2. GRAY’S PRODUCE 1725 Highway 101, Beaufort 575 East Chatham Street, Newport Hwy 24 Newport: 228 Shore Road 5. MEADOWS FARM 8. WINBERRY FARM PRODUCE Cedar Point, NC Beaufort: Beside Burger King, Hwy 70 603 Highway 24, Cedar Point 1006 Cedar Point Blvd, Cedar Point (in front of Ace Hardware) (252) 393-8243 There is a certain satisfaction, even joy, that comes when you select good food from a bin of vegetables harvested that same morning. It just feels right to hunt Garner Farms Gray’s Produce for and gather up the best from each new season to feed yourself and your family. CLAYTON GARNER, JR RANDY GRAY It's easy to get that feeling here at the Crystal Coast. Let us introduce you to Newport: 173 Sam Garner Road, Newport, NC Friday afternoons and some Saturdays mornings your local farmers, and teach you which | New Bern: 501 Garner Road, New Bern, NC | | beside Burger King, HWY 70, Beaufort | vegetables and fruits they are harvesting OPEN April to Mid August & Early Sept thru October (in front of Ace Hardware) each month of the year. Collards available Thanksgiving & Christmas seasons OPEN May thru July & Mid September thru December At the Garner farm stands you will find their home grown strawberries, At Gray's Produce stand you will find home grown bush snap asparagus, snap beans, lima beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, beans, bush lima beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, cantaloupes, Planting your own garden? cantaloupe, carrots, cauliflower, collards, sweet corn, Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, collards, sweet corn, pickling cucumbers, slicing slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, cucumbers, kale, mustard, okra, onions, snap peas , English Meet the folks that grow seedlings for you, lettuce, mustard, okra, onions, peas – garden, snap and snow, field peas, garden peas, field peas (cowpeas), sweet and hot peppers, Irish right here in Carteret County. hot peppers, sweet peppers, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, summer squash, winter squash, tomatoes, turnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, summer squash, watermelons, and cut flowers. Garner Farms also has a bakery at the field tomatoes, turnips and watermelons. C R Y S T A L C O A S T Newport location.

In addition, this farmer makes available vegetables grown by other produce Carteret County, North Carolina, and SC farmers and from the North Carolina State Farmers Market.

*Dates of operation for all stands are approximate, as the seasons for berries and vegetables changes from year to year based on the weather. Guthrie Farm JW Merrell Produce Farm

SHERRY GUTHRIE JW MERRELL MARKETS OFF FARM and TAJUANA G. HILL These intimate markets feature some vegetables and herbs, baked goods, jams and jellies, and crafts. Each 5417 Highway 24, Newport, NC 1725 Highway 101, Beaufort, NC may have offerings of county, regional or state produced | OPEN 1 week before Memorial Day (May) & | | OPEN April to Labor Day, 6 days/week; | honey, cheese, seafood, or other foods. close 1 week after Labor Day (September) Labor Day to Christmas, 5 days/week Olde Beaufort Farmers’ Market At the Guthrie Farm Produce stand you will find home grown bush At the Merrell farm stand you will find home grown strawberries, snap beans, bush lima beans, pole lima beans, beets, green beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, collards, slicing Beneath the live oaks at the County Courthouse in cantaloupes, collards, sweet corn, field peas (cowpeas) slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, kale, leeks, lettuce, mustard, downtown Beaufort. Saturday mornings April-December. and pickling cucumbers, okra, onions, sweet and hot peppers, okra, onions, English garden peas, snap peas, Irish potatoes, www.beaufortfarmersmarket.com Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, summer squash, tomatoes and summer squash, turnips, herbs and cut flowers. watermelons. The Curb Market In addition, this farmer makes available a wide range of Corner of 13th and Evans St, Downtown Morehead City. In addition this farm stand makes available vegetables grown by vegetables and fruit from other Carteret, North Carolina, SC and Open for the season 1st Saturday in May through Labor other Carteret County and North Carolina farmers, and from the VA farmers, the State Farmers Market, and other commercial Day. Open every Saturday from 7:30 - 11:30. North Carolina State Farmers Market. sources. The Friendly Market 205 Friendly Road, Morehead City - Corner of Friendly Road and Bridges Street. Open 7 days a week. Simpson’s Farm Meadows Farm and Nannie’s Bakery

OTHER EDIBLE JERRY MEADOWS GEORGE D. SIMPSON, SR. CRYSTAL COAST 603 Highway 24, Cedar Point, NC 743 Highway 70, Bettie, NC PRODUCTS | Next to Cedar Point BP and Grill on Highway 24 | | about 2 miles east of Beaufort | OPEN April thru December OPEN April thru July 6 days/week CHICKEN At Meadows Farm Stand you will find home grown bush snap October thru December & Yellow Bear Farm beans, pole snap beans, bush lima beans, beets, broccoli, Mid January thru March: Wednesday - Friday cabbage, cantaloupes, collards, sweet corn, pickling cucumbers, 2712 US Highway 70 East, Beaufort slicing cucumbers, kale, leaf lettuce, head lettuce, mustard, okra, At the Simpson farm stand you will find home grown greenhouse Yellow Bear Farm is owned and onions, English garden peas, snow peas, snap peas, field peas tomatoes and cucumbers, broccoli, cabbage, cantaloupe, operated by Kelly Johnson and Erica (cowpeas), sweet and hot peppers, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, collards, leaf lettuce, okra, onions, sweet peppers, hot peppers, Bondy. They raise chickens on pasture pumpkins, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, summer squash, winter Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, rutabagas, summer squash, and for meat and eggs and do all processing on-farm. Erica squash, tomatoes, turnips and watermelons. watermelons. and Kelly sell their products at the Olde Beaufort Farmers’ Market from April-December, but you can contact them to In addition, this farmer makes available vegetables grown by In addition, this farmer makes available vegetables grown by arrange to buy products from the farm when the market is other Carteret County farmers, NC farmers, SC farmers, and from other Carteret County and North Carolina farmers. not open. You can find Yellow Bear Farm on Facebook: the North Carolina State Farmers Market. facebook.com/YellowBearFarm or call (503) 791-9747

BEEF Marshallberg Farm 811 Straits Road, Smyrna Marshallberg Farm is certified organic Winberry Farm by the USDA; the herd is certified Willis Farm grassfed by the American Grassfed Produce Association. The black angus herd eats a variety of grasses and other forages. If needed, they ERNEST WILLIS DAVID AND SARAH WINBERRY are given hay in the winter but never fed grain or any other supplements, growth hormones or antibiotics. Find Marshallberg Farm online at: 575 East Chatham Street, Newport, NC 1006 Cedar Point Boulevard, Cedar Point, NC www.marshallbergfarm.com; email: | OPEN April thru December | | 1 mile west of the intersection of Highways 24 and 58 | [email protected]; or call (252) 241-0033 in Cedar Point At the Willis' farm stand you will find home grown asparagus, OPEN Mid April thru Thanksgiving green beans, lima beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, cantaloupe, Collards available in off season SEAFOOD carrots, cauliflower, collards, sweet corn, Chinese cabbage, slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, At the Winberry's stand you will find home grown Bogue Sound Carteret Catch leeks, lettuce, mustard, okra, onions, peas – both garden and watermelons, cantaloupes, tomatoes – both field grown and Look for the snap, field peas, hot peppers, sweet peppers, Irish potatoes, greenhouse, green beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, collards, Carteret Catch logo in sweet potatoes, pumpkins, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, summer sweet corn, cucumbers, eggplants, lettuce, mustard, okra, onions, local retail markets and restaurants. It is your guarantee squash, winter squash, tomatoes, watermelons, strawberries, and field peas, sweet peppers, hot peppers, Irish potatoes, sweet of fresh, local seafood landed by resident commercial blackberries. Willis Farm also prepares fresh baked goods in the potatoes, radishes, summer squash, winter squash, and turnips. fishermen. www.carteretcatch.org kitchen at the stand in Newport. In addition, this farmer makes available vegetables grown by The mission of the Carteret Catch is to raise the visibility of In addition, they make available vegetables grown by other other Carteret County and NC farmers, and from the North local seafood and commercial fishing through public Carteret County farmers, and from the North Carolina State Carolina State Farmers Market. education and marketing. Farmers Market.