Starting in November, the Davidson Farmer’s Market will switch to a bi-weekly schedule. During the colder months of the year, the market will still offer products from more than a dozen farmers, including meats, cheeses, produce, seafood, baked goods, and other items.

Produce selections will likely include arugula, Asian greens, beets, cabbages, carrots, greenhouse tomatoes, lettuces, onions, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard, turnips, winter squash, and possibly greenhouse strawberries.

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Example of the hot dog cart approved by the DRB.

Davidson could be getting another fast-food hot dog business, and this one it would be right on Main Street. Davidson’s Design Review Board gave its approval last week for a proposed hot dog cart to operate near the Davidson public library and CVS. The cart still needs a town vendor permit.

Friedeh Kariminian of Statesville hopes to operate the cart, which would offer hot dogs, chips and canned drinks. She’s being represented during the approval process Read the full story

Owners Tommy and Anna Barbee with Brent Barbee, right, the farm manager. (Barbee Farms photo)

By CHRISTY SHI

The other night I received a photo from Tommy Barbee, showcasing his supper. “Look at what a farm boy can create,” he said. The picture displayed a bright green salad, replete with cucumbers, tomatoes, and more; all of which he had grown there at Barbee Farms, in Concord.

As a locavore (someone who eats a local diet), this notion of sharing stories about where one’s food came from is the norm.

But this exchange was special. You see, this time last year we weren’t sure Barbee Farms would exist today.

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What was hot at the N.C. State fair this year? Some news outlets would have you think it was the latest deep-fried whatever. But Andrea Weigle of the Raleigh News & Observer reports its actually cheese – North Carolina cheese. “For the first time, the state’s artisan cheese makers have a presence at the fair … (in a) tent, tucked between the Jim Graham Building and the Expo Center.”

LINK: “Cheese artisans wedge their way onto fair scene.”