2024 Winter Season Hours
2nd & 4th Saturdays January through April
Noon to 2:30 pm
2023 Dates:
January 13 & 27 | February 10 & 24 | March 9 & 23
April 13 & 27
Visit Us
at Afterglow Brewing (nextdoor to the Railyard)
2330 Bowdens Ferry Rd, Suite 600, Norfolk, VA 23508
Weather Policy:
Markets are rain or shine unless weather is severe. Look for any necessary updates on our website and social media.
If it’s a chilly day, after you shop you can warm up by the brewery’s fire tables, inside the heated tent or inside in the taproom!
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Here Is Our 2024 Winter Market Vendor Lineup!
Aroma Coffee is a mobile coffee cafe’. They serve fresh coffee (hot and iced), lattes, frozen coffee, cold brew, and hot and iced tea refreshers. East Beach: Attends full time. Harvest Market: Attends select dates.
B4K3 is a Chesapeake-based woman-owned baking service that offers artisan sourdough and other breads, biscuits, scones and pies. Attends select dates.
The Big Belly Food Truck serves Asian/Pacific Islander inspired street/comfort food. Top sellers include Asian BBQ Bowls, Pork Belly Steam Buns, and Musubi. Attends select dates.
Located in Chesapeake, BrownTown Organics is a family farm growing produce using organic practices, with no chemical fertilizers or chemical pesticides. The Brown family takes pride in growing healthy food for the community.
Bucket's Biscuits is a natural dog treat company that creates delicious homemade snacks for our furry friends. All of the treats are made by hand (and with love) in Virginia Beach. Attends select dates.
Coastal Pickling Company produces small batch, hand-crafted, premium pickles. Pickles are available in 3 flavors: classic dill, jalapeno, and habanero. All pickles are refrigerated, to maintain freshness and crunch, without using artificial preservatives. They recently added a fresh pickle salsa to their product line, as well! Winter Market: Attends full time. East Beach: Attends select dates.
Crunch On Snacks makes freeze dried snacks. Amy and her team freeze dry candy, fresh fruit, fresh veggies and more—even ice cream! Sweet or savory, they’ve got you covered for snacking. These also make great care package gifts!
Dee’s Peanut Butter makes 5 flavors of handcrafted peanut butter, all sourced with local, Virginia peanuts!
Ellie’s Cellar offers eco-friendly, non toxic cleaners, laundry soap, dish soap, scrubbing paste and essential oil air fresheners. Made in Suffolk, VA. East Beach & Harvest Market: attends select dates. Winter & Summer Markets at Afterglow: attends full time.
The FARM FED food truck specializes in farm to plate cuisine. Menus change regularly, but expect to see their amazing fried chicken sandwiches, lumpia, pancit and seasonal specialties. Attends select dates.
Ginger Voodoo is a mother and daughter team committed to making organic bath and body products. For the market, they will be bringing body butters, scrubs, and soaks—all free from all chemical preservatives and chemical fragrances. All products are also vegan and cruelty free.
Based in King William County, Virginia, the Clark family produces all natural CBD products and grows their hemp using organic methods. Products include balms, creams, bath bombs, tinctures, gummies and dog supplements.
Hades Wood Fired Oven offers artisan-style pizzas with something for everyone! Attends select dates.
Lightweight polymer clay jewelry and accessories made by hand. Custom and seasonal designs available. Nina makes studs, dangles, hoops, bracelets, keychains and pendants for necklaces.
Chef-created condiments, including hot sauces, BBQ sauce, marinades, dressings and seasoning blends. Check out their fun apparel, too!
Katesy Things makes a variety of creative stickers and accessories, including key wristlets, badge reels and stretchy headbands/ear warmers. Attends select dates.
Kelsey Finnie is an Ohio born, Virginia based glass artist, working and making out of the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a BFA. She makes functional blown glass items that focus on color, function and design. Attends on select dates.
Krid’s Crumbs is a local bakery in Virginia Beach that specializes in sourdough. Kristin makes boules, sandwich bread, fococcia, babka, brioche, baguettes and more. Winter Market and Harvest Market: Attends select dates. Summer Market: Attends most dates.
Polo and Becca Beltran farm alongside Polo’s parents and other family members on Penn Farm in Colonial Beach, VA. They grow a vast array of fruits and vegetables year round, including some locally hard to find items like asparagus, figs, field peas, butter beans and their own peaches.
LOKAL offers European style breads, sandwich breads and other baked goods--all made with organic whole grain flour and all vegan! Choose from Sourdough, Ciabatta, Focaccia, Semolina and more--probably some you have never tried before!
Matt of MaD Seasoning is a local chef that cooks to Make a Difference. He's an executive chef and a graduate of Johnson and Wales University. Chef Matt teaches cooking classes at Kitchen Barn in VB. He is a social media influencer with his cooking videos have been viewed Millions of times on Tiktok and Instagram. As a cooking instructor he wanted to give his students something to help them cook better. That is why he created and now sells MaD Seasoning Salt. You use it anywhere you would use salt & pepper. It Makes-a-Difference.
Danielle offers handmade jewelry in gold and silver with designs influenced by her Japanese and Hawaiian heritage. New this season - permanent jewelry will be available! Attends select dates.
Mane Events is a mobile beverage service that operates out of a refurbished, vintage horse trailer. At the market, they serve scratch-made non-alcoholic sodas, slushees, smoothies and lemonades with locally sourced ingredients and produce. In the cooler months, hot beverages such as coffee, cider, tea and hot chocolate round out the offerings. In addition, they provide pre-batched craft mixers in cocktail kits that guests then take home and add their own spirits while following recipes provided.
Calling all popcorn lovers! Mr. Woody’s Gourmet Popcorn offers a full array of flavors from savory to sweet to deluxe. They bring us classics you’d expect such as kettlecorn, caramel and cheddar. But they also have some unexpected varieties—anything from dill pickle to lemon crunch to banana pudding popcorn!
Juliette is a soapmaker from Norfolk. She makes many varieties of soap using organic and natural oils, essential oils, fragrance oils (phthalate free), clays, hops, and herbs—including lavender from her own garden. She also makes a variety of beer soaps featuring VA Craft beers. In addition, she hand-makes salves, lip balms, shave bars, beard oils, facial oils, and organic insect repellents. Stop by to see Juliette and her husband Steve at the market.
NuLand Hot Stuff Company says they bring you “farm to flavor!” Their farm is a Certified Century Farm (meaning it’s been in their family for over a century), located in Pasquotank Co, NC, which is referred to as Newland. The family farm is where they grow hot peppers, and they manufacture their hot sauces and blood mary mixes at in Norfolk. They enjoy crafting fun flavors of “hot stuff,” where the flavors are surprising and unusual, with heat that builds (that does not offend). Between the bloody mary mixes and 16 varieties of hot sauce (and seasonal flavors), have some samples at the market and see what pleases your palate! NuLand has also recently added Hummus, Salsas and Salad Dressing to their product line! Harvest Market: Attends select dates. Winter Market, Summer Market & East Beach: Attends full time.
Pasta e Pani by Salvatore brings us fresh pastas, delectable pasta sauces, fresh hand-pulled mozzarella, Italian bread, Salvatore's nona's meatballs and more! Born in Naples, Chef Sal makes everything in the Italian tradition--using traditional family recipes. We see many delicious (and easy) Italian dinners in our future!
Peanut City Candle Co. is a small, female-owned, SCC-registered business in Suffolk, VA. They offer 100% USA-grown Soy Wax Candles and Wax Melts, all hand-poured. Their goal is to provide customers with non-toxic, highly-fragrant wax products that are produced with sustainable and safe products. Their candles and melts are dye-free, and are scented with American-made, Pthalate-free fragrances. Packaging and containers are reusable, recyclable and American-made, as well. East Beach & Summer Market at Afterglow: attends select dates. Winter Market and Harvest Market: attends full time.
Pinup Coffee Co is a small batch specialty coffee roaster in Virginia Beach. They source high quality beans, and use an artfully driven roasting and blending process to connect everyone to vibrant, enjoyable coffees to love and explore. Active duty owned and operated.
Riffle Farms raises grass-fed and finished bison meat. A veteran-owned small business tucked in the wild and wonderful mountains of West Virginia. Bison meat is heart healthy, has less fat in it than chicken, more protein than salmon, and more omega-3 fatty acids than even grass-fed beef! Their Bison Hot Dogs are also a big hit at the markets!
Riffle Farms raises grass-fed and finished bison meat. A veteran-owned small business tucked in the wild and wonderful mountains of West Virginia. Bison meat is heart healthy, has less fat in it than chicken, more protein than salmon, and more omega-3 fatty acids than even grass-fed beef! Their Bison Hot Dogs are also a big hit at the markets!
River Road Farm raises grassfed beef. Their cattle are born, weaned and raised naturally on over 200 beautiful acres of carefully selected grasses on their pastoral Franklin farm. They choose to raise their cattle this way because it contains the optimal balance of heart- and brain-healthy Omega 3, Omega 6, and CLA fatty acids. Their beef has fewer calories than grain fed animals and much less fat. They never give their herd hormones or antibiotics. River Road Farm's natural approach to raising grassfed and grass-finished cattle and being good stewards of their land allows them to produce some of the most delicious, marbled beef you will ever enjoy. River Road Farm also brings us eggs fresh from the farm!
Nikki brews Kombucha, a probiotic tea, at her studio/brewery in Norfolk. Kombucha has been around for centuries and its popularity has resurged in recent years as a "health drink” with digestive benefits. She has a set of flavors that are customer favorites that she offers year-round, as well as special seasonal flavors.
Full time special educator by day, a lover of all things food on nights and weekends, Sarah Wingate brings all kinds of treats to the market. Jams and jellies, spiced nuts, homemade candies, cheesecake jars and other yummy baked goods and her spicy Firecrackers. Attends select dates.
Soup Love specializes in 24 hour bone broths and hand crafted soups. Started as a passion project in her home kitchen, owner and head chef Amy Markman has always enjoyed cooking for her family and friends. When she began posting images of her homemade soups to her social media channels, her inbox began to fill with inquiries of how to get a bowl. Seeing the growth in interest, she decided to build a 150 square foot commercial chef’s kitchen adjacent to her home and began producing and delivering her deliciously heartwarming soups and bone broths throughout her community, as well as joining the lineup of local farmers markets. Bones and ingredients are purchased from local farmers when possible.
Stacey hand makes unique and whimsical high-quality sterling silver jewelry. She uses semi-precious gemstones and other natural items. Many pieces are one-of-a-kind and she also works with silver metal clay for truly exclusive pieces. Custom orders for memorial jewelry, bridal parties and other special occasion pieces are accepted. Attends select dates.
Craving something sweet? Camie from Sugarbee Treats has you covered. She enjoys baking all kinds of sweet treats in her home-based bakery. Selections and flavors vary, but you can expect to find a nice variety of freshly baked cookies, scones, cakesicles, mini bundts, whoopie pies & pretzel buns.
100% Organic, non-GMO, and plant based Vegan snacks for everyone! SunnySnacks Organics sells creative flavors of cereal, energy balls, trail mixes, and hummus. Gluten free, Whole30, Paleo, and Keto options. Creatively clean snacking!
Alli Cook applies her love of sewing and animals in her small business Talli Designs. She makes dog and cat bandanas, as well as bow ties in an array of fun fabrics. From Allie: “I love spreading joy through making the bandanas, and seeing people light up when they see how adorable their pets are with a bandana!” East Beach: Attends select dates. Summer Market, Winter Market & Harvest Market: Attends full time.
The Creamery is a “mom and pop” creamery specializing in gelato and sorbet. They use local produce whenever possible. All the flavors are amazing, and they come up with some unexpected combos sometimes! Come taste for yourself!
The Flower Farm at ONECommunity Museum offers locally grown cut flower bouquets, bulbs, and seasonal plants. The organization is a non-profit and all proceeds support their mission of improving health, wellness, education and sustainability in the community.
Tidewater Mushroom Co. is a Norfolk-based urban gourmet mushroom farm. They supply us with maitake, several varieties of oyster, king trumpet, lions mane and nameko fresh mushrooms, as well as dried oyster mushrooms and grow-bag kits.
John and Jennifer Christmas raise Angus beef and pork on their Suffolk farm. They often run weekly specials, if you are looking for a deal or to stock your freezer. They also bring us eggs!
Ulti-Mutt makes dog toys, collars and leashes. The “Snout Roller” toys are really puzzles you fill with kibble or treats for your dog. They feature many small holes to get your dog’s nose going, but only a couple holes large enough for food and treats to actually fit through. The wide tube with end caps makes cleaning and refilling a breeze. The Ulti-Mutt collars and leashes, made of biothane, are water resistant, odor proof, and washable/bleach-able. Available in multiple colors—you can mix and match or go monochromatic! Attends select dates.
Up In Smoke takes quality cheeses and smokes them to add unique flavor! They offer three varieties. Enjoy them on their own, as part of an interesting cheese board, or in your favorite recipes. Kevin also sometimes brings some extra surprises for us, like hot peppers from his garden, Virginia pecans covered in milk chocolate and handmade charcuterie boards.
Wharton Leather makes hand crafted leather goods that you're bound to love. From satchels and totes to wallets and belts, Matt offers a number of full grain leather products, each being customizable and unique. Summer Market & East Beach: Attends select dates. Winter Markets: Attends full time.