Nothing is more satisfying than fresh summer vegetables: fried, sautéed, roasted, steamed, boiled, pickled, or right off the vine. All the hand-picked green market goodies are selected fresh from plants grown in rich mountain or bottomland soil.
When you buy fresh vegetables and meats, the fragrance is mouthwatering. It’s so tempting, the oven might turn itself on. You better start shucking!
So, what’s for dinner? How about juicy pork chops, sweet corn on the cob, sliced purple Cherokee heirloom tomatoes, and a slab of hot cornbread? Don Deal (Highlands Farmers Market) and Mattilynn Sneed (Cashiers’ Local Grown on the Green), organizers of the green markets, guarantee supreme satisfaction. Sauté or steam summer squash, peppers, cukes, zukes, kale, shrooms, greens, onions, and green beans. Chill the melons, pop open the fresh baked goods, bury the berries in whipped cream atop homemade cake, then sit back and sippa cuppa coffee.
That coffee is this month’s feature vendor, the Great Commission Coffee in Dillsboro. Here’s its introduction: It took a long time for coffee to get to the Middle East –16 centuries as a matter of fact.
But, today, with the support of Great Commission Coffee, spreading good words and deeds are on their way all around the world.
Madi Rose, artist and fine cook; and Darryl, entrepreneur and ordained minister, make the team of MadnDad.
As family, they bonded on many things, but the most recent is launching a business.
Madi says, “We bought Great Commission Coffee, a coffee roasting business in September of 2024, and opened a Café Roastery in Dillsboro in October 2025. The mission of donating 100 percent of profits to ministries has been the same throughout.”
Their high-quality roasted coffee beans are sourced from Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Sumatra, and Nicaragua. They sell the beans, whole or ground, and send profits to Good Shepherd Guatemala, associated with North Carolina Baptist Children’s Home, their orphanage, medical clinic, and ministry assisted by MadnDad.
Support this Great Commission by purchasing 12 ozs., 2 lbs, 4 lbs. or more at Locally Grown on the Green, Wednesdays, 11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. (sip the samples). Great Commission doesn’t sell at Highlands Marketplace.
Highlands Marketplace, at Kelsey Hutchinson Park on Pine, sells food and products on Saturdays 8:00 A.M. thru 12:30 P.M., through October. Locally Grown on the Green in Cashiers is open on Wednesdays, 11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. thru October 28.
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