A Full Market Saturday Nov 21 2015

18/11/15 5:36 PM

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

 

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