A Full Market Saturday Nov 21 2015
On this Saturday-before-Thanksgiving, 36 local food artisans and growers will be with us, along with special events to make your trip to the market deliciously worthwhile.
Our featured vendor is Lavender House, brainchild of herb aficionado (and VB Master Gardener) Billi Parus. This is the perfect time to try her aromatic herb blends to season your turkey and flavor stuffing. Whip an herb blend into butter for bread. Try flavoring cooked greens and salads with her infused vinegars. Make a glaze from herb jellies.
Billi will have numerous products to sample and printed recipes to take home. Bring your appetite and menu and she will help you craft Thanksgiving favorites with ease.
Mac Houfek will be at the market signing her handsome new book, Reflections on a Coastal Garden, written with the skillful eye of OBFM’s Ann Wright. This is a beautifully illustrated narration of one woman’s experience in transforming an overgrown yard into a distinct and welcoming landscape, chock full of ideas and gentle guidance. It’s a great hostess or holiday gift, and your purchase is doubly good, since all proceeds go to Norfolk Botanical Garden.
Congratulations to Pennacock Peppers, one of only four food winners of the 2015 Made in Virginia Award from Virginia Living magazine. Elisabeth and Kevin Oelhafen create their complex salsas from eight different peppers. Aren’t we lucky to have them in Virginia Beach?
Cold? Warm up with coffee from Three Ships Coffee or Roast Riders. Get a hot dish from Hashi Food Truck or soup from The Stockpot.
Part-time favorites return! Look for Brownies, Cookies & S’mores, Sandi’s Sandies, Beach Biscotti, Build Your Food, Edmonds Bison Farm, and A Weekend Baker, along with our original farm family, the Cromwells.
A number of our vendors are taking pre-orders, including The Bakery at Riverside Farm, Full Quiver, Vy’s Pies, Rockafeller’s, and more. Check their websites and order ahead for pickup on Saturday at the market. It’s good to know that what you want and need will be waiting for you.
And one last tip: Mattawoman Creek Farm has their signature sweet organic grape and cherry tomatoes, still going strong in November.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. See you Saturday.
Our Vendors
Artisan’s Bakery & Café
The Bakery at Riverside Farm
Beach Biscotti
Bergey’s
Brownies, Cookies & S’more
Build Your Food
The Creative Wedge
Croc’s 19th Street Bistro
Cromwell‘s Produce
Edmonds Farm
Fresh Batch Jams
Fudge Grudge
Full Quiver Farm
Give. Treat. Love.
Grace and Gratitude
The Green Cat
Hashi Food Truck
It Started With a Fig
Lavender House
Mattawoman Creek Farms
My Vegan Sweet Tooth
The Neighborhood Harvest
New Earth Farm
Pelon’s Baja Grill
Pennacock Peppers
Roast Rider
Rockafeller’s Restaurant
Sandi’s Sandies
Shady Goat Farm
Speedy’s Hot Sauce
The Stockpot
Terrapin Restaurant
Three Ships Coffee
Vy’s Pies
Whole-ly Rollers