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Jack O'Looza Is This Weekend!🎃🍎👻👩🏼🌾 And Lots of Special Guests!
October 25th and 26th
Charlotte Terry
October 24, 2025
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Field to Table hosts four local farmers markets in the Arlington, Virginia area that provide goods grown, harvested, or produced within 125 miles of the markets. We are committed to providing fresh, high-quality products while facilitating a welcoming community atmosphere.
Farmers Markets at
Lubber Run | Fairlington | Cherrydale | Westover
For the Weekend of October 25th and 26th
All markets: Jack O’Looza 🎃, join us for some family friendly fun, carving and decorating pumpkins and with our Costume Contest. More details below.
Lubber Run: Chat with the Barrett Elementary School PTA, the Arlington Chorale, and Yorktown High School’s Crew Team!
Fairlington: This is the last weekend to chat with Master Gardeners about your gardening questions! Make sure you get your fall planting in before the first frost 🌱!
Westover: Special guest, Arlington’s Nature Centers, learn about their programs and learn about why leaves change colors 🍂!
Current Weather Forecast…
It’s getting cold fast with lows in the high 30s! Make sure you bring your jackets and reusable bags, and maybe get the ingredients for your favorite warm soup.
⛅ Saturday: Lows in the high thirties and highs in the high 50s.
⛅ Sunday: A bit cloudy, lows in the low 40s and highs in the high 50s!
🍎Working on your shopping list?🍎
This weekend, expect to see…
Apples - Basil - Beets - Brussels sprouts - Broccoli - Pears - Spinach - Arugula - Pumpkins - Carrots - Chard - Cucumbers - Grapes - Kale - Peppers - Potatoes - Radishes - Tomatoes - Zucchini - Winter Squash
Wondering how to cook these delicious foods? Check out our recipe page on our website!
Weekly Recipe Highlight!
Want to submit your own recipe for the Field to Table recipe collection? Submit through the form here!
Jack O’Looza is this weekend!
Join us THIS WEEKEND at all of our markets for a Halloween costume contest and Jack-o-lantern carving and decorating!
Come to the market table at 10:00am to show off your costume! Awards will be given at 10:30 for Most Creative 🎨, Funniest 😂, Scariest 👻, and Best Costume! All ages are encouraged to participate!
Join us for pumpkin carving and decorating as well! Purchase a pumpkin from a vendor or bring one from home! We will be providing pumpkin carving tools, stencils, paint pens, and googly eyes! Adult supervision is required while carving pumpkins.
Pumpkin carving
9:00am-11:30 at Cherrydale, Lubber Run, and Westover
10:00am-12:30pm at Fairlington
Where to purchase pumpkins:
Lubber Run: Barajas, Great Valley, and Linda Vista
Cherrydale: Great Valley and Linda Vista
Westover: Barajas, Great Valley, and Linda Vista
Fairlington: Kuhn Orchards sells small, handheld pumpkins for decorating, not carving, or visit the market table to donate for a pumpkin!
Here is the complete vendor list and map. This is Harvest Hue’s Juice’s last weekend at the market! Yalla Falastin will be absent this weekend.
Open Saturdays, from 8am-12pm, Apr-Nov | Barrett Elementary School
4401 North Henderson Street, Arlington, VA 22203
Barrett Elementary School PTA
Chat with the Barrett Elementary School PTA this weekend! Learn about how to get more involved!
Arlington Chorale
The Arlington Chorale is a vibrant, multi-generational chorus based in the DMV. Members come from a range of musical backgrounds and foster strong connections with each other through musical rehearsals and social events. They perform a diverse array of music, including well-known masterpieces by composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Brahms, as well as contemporary works that address pressing societal issues.
Chat with them this weekend about their upcoming performances and ways to get involved. Learn more here.
Already planning for the holidays? Chat with members of the Yorktown Crew team about ordering a holiday wreath!
Live Music: Jim Thorne
Music this weekend is by Jim Thorne! Jim has played a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, banjo, trombone, and later studied jazz flute and mandolin over the course of his life. He will be playing the guitar this weekend and singing vocals. Be sure not to miss it!
Jim has released a new album called “A Race in Space” where two characters, Tommy and Laura, are on missions to the planets and take a trip back in time to photograph early space launches and create a history display in the future. Hopefully he will play a few tunes from this album!
Check him out on Instagram here.
Vendor Spotlight: Big Boy Biscuits
Big Boy Biscuits believes in fresh, high quality food, with no fillers and additives and source ingredients locally whenever possible. From their hearty biscuit sandwiches to pimento cheese, they ensure simple ingredients come together to create something extraordinary. Visit them at the market for a hot biscuit sandwich, or order through them for catering! Find them on Instagram, here.
Open Sundays, from 9:00am-1:00pm, May-Nov at the Fairlington Community Center 3308 South Stafford Street, Arlington, VA 22206
Check out the complete vendor list and map.
Master Gardeners: Last Weekend! 9:00am-11:00am
Visit the Master Gardeners at their table, or in the native plant garden, to get your gardening questions answered.
Live Music: Swingology
Join us this weekend to hear Swingology! A DC-area band, Swingology performs hot jazz, bossa nova, manouche, swing and traditional jazz. You will hear violin, guitars, and bass which will make you feel like you’re in a Parisian cafe or Prohibition era speakeasy.
Check them out on Instagram.
Vendor Spotlight: Pleitez Produce Farm
Pleitez Produce Farm has been family owned since 2002. With 30 years of farming experience, they pride themselves on having a wide variety of high quality fresh fruits and vegetables that they grow with no GMOs or GESs. Check them out on Instagram here!
Visit them for lots of October produce, like potatoes, onions, peppers, cucumbers, and more!
Thanks to our Sponsors:
Open Saturdays, 8am-12pm, Apr-Nov | Dorothy Hamm Middle School
4100 Vacation Lane, Arlington, VA 22207
Check out the complete vendor list and map.
See you this weekend for bubbles galore!
Live Music: Andrew Acosta
Andrew Acosta is a singer and guitar player from the Washington D.C. area. Since the 1970s, he has performed solo and as the leader of the New Old Time String Band, playing traditional American roots and country music.
Vendor Spotlight: Ana’s Twist
Ana of Ana’s Twist, grew up in Ecuador, learning her love of cooking from her mother, grandmother, and studies of holistic foods. Every week she comes to our markets with empanadas, sorbets, soups, and juices, all of which she makes with local and seasonal ingredients. Find them on Instagram, here.
Check out her vegan, vegetarian, dairy free, and gluten free options! Ana has something for everyone!
Open Sundays, 8am-12pm, Summer (Apr-Nov) | 9am-1pm, Winter (Dec - Mar)
Cardinal Elementary School | 1644 North McKinley Road, Arlington, VA 22205
Open Sundays, 8am-12pm, Summer (Apr-Nov) | 9am-1pm, Winter (Dec - Mar)
Cardinal Elementary School | 1644 North McKinley Road, Arlington, VA 22205
Check out the complete vendor list and map.
Special Guest: Arlington Nature Centers
Have you ever been to Arlington’s Nature Centers, Long Branch or Gulf Branch?
Well, the Nature Centers are coming to you!
Chat with one of the Nature Center’s Naturalists about program offerings, our two nature center sites, and learn about why leaves change in the fall!
Vendor Spotlight: Spore and Seed
Spore and Seed is a small but mighty flower and fungi farm in Baltimore County, MD. They are committed to providing their local community with high quality fresh cut flowers and dried flower products grown in a way that honors nature. Started by Courtney in 2018, find incredible arrangements at the market and sign up for their classes, such as dried flower bouquet and wreath making. Check them out on Instagram here.
Upcoming classes include:
Weekly Scavenger Hunt Activity!
Each week, we post a challenge for you all to find chalk drawings of fruits or veggies scattered around the market. Find all of them, and come to the market table for a stamp on your punch card (provided there). Once you get 6 stamps (you get one per week), you get a prize!
The weekly challenge will be posted in the newsletter and Instagram, which can be found, here!
Live Music: Pete Erikson
Listen to Pete Erikson on the guitar and vocals this weekend! He plays a great medley of songs, from current hits to classics spanning decades.
Donate to the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) at our Market Tables
Field to Table has partnered with the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) to have donation boxes available each week at all farmers markets. Support the Arlington community by donating nonperishable food items (no glass, please) at our markets. Learn more.
AFAC is in most need of canned fruits, canned tuna, canned soups, canned vegetables, canned tomatoes, peanut butter (in a plastic jar), cereal, and plastic water bottles!