The following are excerpts from an article written by Jennie Jones Giles in 2004 for the Hendersonville Times-News and includes additional information:

Since 1998, Alma Logan Avery has brought her produce, fruit, cakes and preserved goods to the Henderson County Tailgate Market.
“I’m the first to open and the last to close,” Avery said.
She arrives around 6 a.m. each Saturday, beginning sometime in March with her lettuce and onions. By 11 or 11:30 a.m. she begins to pack up the empty boxes and makes the drive back to her home in Bat Cave.
About a week before Christmas she is selling the last of her coconut and pound cakes, chow-chow and bread and butter pickles.
“I make cakes for people for whatever they want to give me,” Avery said.
A colorful butterfly made a brief stop on her sunbonnet as she stood in her yard surrounded by a myriad of flowers. Avery was remembering her youth.
“I grew up in Lake Lure, up on Cedar Creek,” she said. “I didn’t go to school. When I was a little girl, my Daddy would go to the field to plant stuff. I was a good cook, so he wanted me to stay at the house and cook. But I would cry to go to the fields and he would let me back. He would send me back about 11 a.m. to cook dinner.”
There were eight children in the family, six girls and two boys.
“It was a hard life, but it was a good life,” she said.
Her husband, Oscar Avery, owned seven acres of land he inherited in the Bat Cave community. The couple raised four children, growing their own food. They owned more land on top of a mountain near Chimney Rock, where they cut timber.
“He had a little orchard here,” she said, as she pointed to the apple trees growing at the back of the house, with mountains in the background. “He worked in the orchards and picked apples for James Hill and Foy Hill and just wherever he could pick apples.”
For 28 years, she worked at a plant in Mountain Home. Since she retired, she has spent more time in her yard and gardens, growing flowers and vegetables to take to the Tailgate Market.
“I run that tiller,” she said, referring to the large tiller at the side of the yard. “I’m going to pick beans today.”
Her large, blue hydrangeas are a big seller.
“I rooted them on the branch here,” she said. “Everybody loves that blue.”
Day lilies, dahlias, butterfly bushes, wild daisies grow on both sides of the mountain stream flowing next to the dirt road.
Across the road is the field containing the rows of yellow, crooked-neck squash and half-runner and Blue Lake beans.
“I’ve still got some carrots, beets and a few onions left,” she said.
The rows of rhubarb are still producing the fruit.
Alongside the field are blueberry plants and grapes.
“My blueberries are started and I planted these grapes two years ago,” she said as she stood next to the grape vine that was covered in bunches of white, seedless grapes ready to begin ripening.
“We got a place up in Edneyville we lease,” she said. “We’ve got beans and a little bit of okra planted there.”
Sometimes people stop by her home to buy her vegetables and cakes and her husband would take some of the produce to the WNC Farmers Market in Asheville, where he sold his apples each fall. The rest she took to the Tailgate Market.
“Everybody is friendly there,” she said. “I don’t meet any strangers. If people come, they’ll be loved. I sure try to show the love of God in my life.”
For several years, Avery sang with the Lake Lure Gospel Singers from her church, the Lake Lure Temple of Jesus. She went to Haiti twice with the singers.
“I sing solo now,” she said. “I couldn’t go and tape with them when I worked at the plant. I just sing mostly in church now.”
She also sings in her garden, as her lovely voice filled the air with “Jesus is my everything.”
“Sometimes I just get happy out there in my garden,” she said.
Avery never learned to read and can’t read music or recipes, but that never stopped her from singing her love for God or becoming such a well-known cook people place orders for her cakes. “These talents are gifts from God because I never got the chance to learn to read,” she said.
Her husband of 60 years, Oscar Avery, died in 2012. His family moved when he was a child to the Bat Cave community, where he grew up. He was a member of Blue Ridge Missionary Baptist Church in Edneyville and was the oldest member of the Bat Cave Fire Department at the time of his death. He  loved hunting and working in his garden.