Boone is a quaint college town nestled high in the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina not far from the Tennessee border. The town has a cool Farmer’s Market located next to a frontier park where you can visit the settlers’ original log cabins while buying local food and crafts.
The highlight of my trip there of all things was a delicious homemade natural smoothie! This smoothie was like no other – not only was it made on the spot with fresh ingredients, but it was made in a blender on a bicycle! Yes, organic goes powerless -- a bicyclist named Susan produced the power to run the blender. “Mango Smoothie” is made from the organic ingredients of coconut milk, mango and pure cane sugar, a concoction created by vendor Lisa Hummel, who also offers a choice of mango types and lets buyers add other ingredients to suit their smoothie palettes, such as dragon fruit and papaya.
