Try Haywood

Haywood County offers a wide variety of fresh farm products, including tomatoes, peppers, and other produce; greenhouse and nursery products; and value-added products.  Look below for details on where you can purchase some of these great items.

Grocery Stores and Restaurants

Through the Buy Haywood project, we are working to feature Haywood County tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers at various grocery store chains and restaurants in Western North Carolina.  Here are a few of the locations where you can purchase Haywood County produce:

• Whole Foods Market
• Fresh Market
• Food Lion
• Bi-Lo
• Lowes Food Stores
• Aldis Food Stores
• Publix Supermarkets
• Christopher Farms on Crymes Cove Road near Waynesville.

 

We expect to announce more of these local and regional sales locations in the near future.
To be sure you are getting fresh, Haywood County produce, look for the blue and green “Haywood County NC Mountain Grown” sticker or logo.  Please note that in some cases our products may not be clearly labeled at the locations listed above.  Either way, we encourage you to support these companies, because they are supporting our efforts to provide high-quality products to community-minded consumers.

If your favorite local grocer or chef isn’t yet offering Buy Haywood fruits and vegetables, please talk to your local store manager or restaurant owner and let them know what you want. If these businesses know that locally grown products are important to their customers, they are much more likely to make the switch to local products!

* Special Note for Buyers

If you own, operate, or buy produce for a grocery store chain or restaurants and you are interested in offering Haywood County tomatoes and peppers, please contact Jay Johnson with J. W. Johnson Tomato Company Packing House, (561) 289-6611 or jay@jglproduce.com. You can also download the Buy Haywood Spec Sheet in in Word or PDF document:

Buyer Product Specifications Sheet (Word)

Buyer Product Specifications Sheet (PDF)

 

Farmers Markets/Tailgate Markets

If you are interested in other products grown in Haywood County, you might also want to visit one of Haywood County’s three tailgate markets. They open in mid-May and continue through the end of the growing season (roughly early October). For more information, contact Tim Matthews at Haywood County Cooperative Extension, (828) 456-3517.

• Pigeon Valley Farmers Market – Saturdays from 1-5 p.m. at Cold Mountain Market on Highway 276 in the Bethel Community (just west of the intersection of Highways 276 and 110).
• Canton Tailgate Market – Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in the parking lot next to the Municipal Building on Park Street in downtown Canton.
• Waynesville Tailgate Market – Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in the parking lot of Badcock & More on North Main Street in downtown Waynesville.

 

Greenhouse and Nursery Products

Haywood County also offers a wide assortment of locally grown greenhouse and nursery products.  For complete listings of our participating growers, please visit our greenhouse and nursery page.

Value-Added Products

Our 2008 Value-Added Product Search Contest yielded three winners: a smoked tomato jam created by Chef Charles Hudson with Sunburst Trout Company ( www.sunbursttrout.com) and a Mediterranean pasta sauce and a Mucho Macho pasta sauce by Chef Ricardo Fernandez of Lomo Grill (www.lomogrill.com), both in Haywood County.  Production of these new items is in the works, and current plans include products for purchase at local and regional festivals, farmers’ markets, and supermarkets.  Please visit their websites to learn more about their efforts, and check back with us soon to learn more about when and where these new products will be available.