Elizabeth Eats will be selling coffee bites, tropical bites, vanilla cake bites, strawberry chocolate fudge, pecan cashew butter, savory nut and seed bread, turmeric almond milk, chocolate cashew milk, and hazelnut cashew milk.

It Started With A Fig announces a new flavor: Fuzzy Nectarine Jam, full of white and regular peaches with zesty nectarine.

Jubilee Seafood is  bringing fresh-picked crabmeat to the market. They will  also have a few cleaned/frozen soft shells, as well asl clams, scallops, tuna, and hard crabs.

Mattawoman Creek Farms will have will have organic cucumbers, Italian cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, basil, kale, bunching Onions, savoy cabbage, beets, kohlrabi, Napa cabbage and sorrel.

The Orchid Station will be at the market with a good selection of blooming plants to choose from.

FOOD NEWS TO USE

Help The JCOC

Old Beach Farmers Market will be collecting hard food goods every Saturday for The Judeo-Christian Outreach Center (JCOC) in Virginia Beach from June 9th till July 7th.

Please drop all food donations at the information booth inside The Farm Market behind Crocs.

Items needed: Canned Fruits & Vegetables, Canned Meats, Canned Meals, Pasta and Pasta Sauce, Soup, Canned Beans, Macaroni and Cheese, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Cereal, Oatmeal/Grits, and Bottled Water/Juice Boxes.

A note from The JCOC “Each year more than 1,000 children and their families benefit from JCOC’s Family Food Box Program. We need your help! Our inventory of nonperishable food is unusually low right now. Please look at the list below, pick up a few items”

If you can’t stop by, please make a donation online at www.JCOC.org today!

Old Beach Markets on the move

With construction beginning on the 19th Street Corridor improvements, which is anticipated to take two years and reduce the street to two lanes, the Old Beach Markets have shifted locations around the corner.

The Old Beach Green Market and the Old Beach Art Market are relocating to the new ViBe Park at Cypress Avenue and 18th Street. A handful of farmers and other vendors of the Old Beach Farmers Market are affected as well. Market hours remain the same, 9 a.m. until noon on Saturdays.

The new park is behind Wareing’s Gym and across from Bad Ass Coffee. The park will also host afternoon concerts on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. Free parking is available at the Virginia Beach Convention Center and at The Runnymede Corporation on Cypress at 20th and 21st Streets.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What do you call a bunch of berries sitting around playing the guitar? … A jam session !!!

RECIPE

SWEET TEA GRANITA

June is National Sweet Tea Month. .My Sweet Tea Granita would be good served simply in a sorbet bowl garnished with fresh mint as a dessert, scooped into an old fashioned glass of bourbon for an after-dinner drink, or even spooned on top of oysters as an alternative to a mignonette or other sauce. 

Here’s how to make it: prepare two cups of tea. While hot, add a quarter-cup of freshly-squeezed lemon juice, 2 tablespoons sugar, and handful of fresh, chopped mint. Stir until sugar is dissolved, and allow to sit until cooled completely to room temperature. Strain into a 9- by 13-inch glass baking dish and sprinkle the zest of one lemon across the top.

Freeze the mixture for 30 minutes. Remove from the freezer and, using the tines of a fork, scrape the frozen crystals across the surface from the outside of the dish toward the center. Return the mixture to the freezer, and repeat the scraping process every 30 minutes until the mixture is completely frozen and granular, 3 to 4 hours. Store covered in the freezer; break up with a fork or potato masher before serving.

Recipe from Chef Patrick Evans-Hylton

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VENDORS

Beach Biscotti

Buck & Bramble

Chilly Mermaid

The Creative Wedge

Cromwell’s Produce

Doughminion Donuts

Elizabeth Eats

Flour Child Bakery

Full Quiver Farm

Give. Treat. Love.

Grace & Gratitude

The Green Cat

Iron Goddess Tea Room

It Started with a Fig

Joysicles Gourmet Pops

JR’s Microgreens of V.B.

Jubilee Seafood

Mattawoman Creek Farms

My Vegan Sweet Tooth

Nancy’s Natives

The Neighborhood Harvest

New Earth Farm

The Orchid Station

Pelon’s Baja Grill

Savor the Olive

Speedy’s Sauce Co.

SunnySnacks Organics

Three Ships Coffee

Udder Chaos Farm

Vy’s Pies

Whole Body Health

Whole-ly Rollers

Zinnia Girls