The Chilly Mermaid will be back this week featuring cookies-n-cream gelato and Amarena (dark cherry) swirl gelato. Catch the Mermaid while you can; they will only be at the next two markets this season.

The Creative Wedge offers samples of all available cheese each week! We suggest starting with our homemade dips, Smoked Gouda, Pimento Cheese, TnT Horseradish Cheddar and Beach Bum Bacon Beer Cheese. Then moving on to all the other delicious offerings!

Elizabeth Eats will be selling berry bites, vanilla cake bites, coffee bites, strawberry chocolate fudge, pecan cashew butter, savory nut and seed bread, vanilla almond milk, chocolate cashew milk, and turmeric almond milk. All products are gluten-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free, and organic.

Flour Child Bakery is enjoying the final weeks of summer fruit season with strawberry-rhubarb crisp, blueberry-peach lattice, and blueberry crumble pies. They are also bringing back their new banana oatmeal crumb cake, along with scones, cookies, gluten-free meringue cookies, and more.

Full Quiver Farm has plenty of pasture raised non-GMO eggs, pork, chicken and beef in stock. Pre-order for the market and check out ways you can save this weekend. The Farmers Grill will be up and running, so bring your appetite.

Virginia Beach Master Gardeners is at OBFM this weekend, so bring your gardening questions.

FOOD NEWS YOU CAN USE

We’re celebrating National Farmers Market week by having a membership drive raffle. Stop by the Information Tent for a chance to win a basket of farmers market goodies. Become a member through donation and get an extra chance to win. The winner will be drawn at the end of the market.

While you’re at the Information Tent, feel free to drop off back to school donations for the JCOC. We’re accepting school supplies, clothing and lunch foods for families in and around the ViBe to send our smallest friends back to school and ready to learn.

Swing by the ViBe Creative District at 18th Street & Cypress Ave for the unveiling of Virginia Beach’s first 3-D LOVE installation by artist Chesley De Leon at 11:30. Stay for the Commonwealth ViBez Summer Beer Garden in ViBe Park.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What’s vegetables favorite martial arts ??? … Carrot-ee !!!

RECIPE

PIZZA, PIZZA!

The Bakery at Riverside Farm has a challenge: pick up a ball of their pizza dough and shop the market for toppings to create your own OBFM Pizza.

What will top yours? Visit market vendors for meats, seafood, veggies, and more.

Share your pies on Instagram/Facebook and tag @thebakeryatriversidefarm, as well as all the vendors who contributed to it. Winner of the best photo gets a free ball of pizza dough and a loaf of bread of their choice.

Who has the best eye for the pie?

VENDORS

The Bakery at Riverside Farm

Beach Bees Apiary

Blooming Farmer

Buck & Bramble

The Butter Brothers

Chilly Mermaid

The Creative Wedge

Croc’s 19th Street Bistro

Cromwell’s Produce

Crunchy Carrot

Doughminion Donuts

Elizabeth Eats

Flour Child Bakery

From Rome with Love

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

Max the Knife Sharpening

My Vegan Sweet Tooth

The Neighborhood Harvest

New Earth Farm

Pelon’s Baja Grill

Pendulum Fine Meats

The Prissy Pickle Company

Red Mushroom Brewing Company

Speedy’s Sauce Co.

Three Ships Coffee

Udder Chaos Farm

Veg Out Gardens

Vy’s Pies

Whole Body Health

Whole-ly Rollers

Zinnia Girls