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Winter Makers Market This Weekend! 🎁 + We were on the news! 📹
December 21st
Charlotte Terry
December 19, 2025
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.
For Sunday, December 21st
Current Weather Forecast…
🔆 Sunday: A sunny day! How welcome! Looks like the high is 50 and the low is 28 degrees. The perfect morning to stroll around the market!
This Weekend! Visit Westover Winter Makers Market
Mark your calendars! Westover Farmers Market is hosting another Makers Market this Sunday! Shop local for your holiday gifts!
We will be hosting…
Grasshopper Girl Designs stylish cork accessories
Clayfully Yours clay jewelry
Jen’s Handmade Petals & Pals handmade crochet
Authentically by Alex clay accessories
The Littlest Things candles, cards, and crafts
🥕Working on your shopping list?🥕
This weekend, expect to see…
Apples - Brussels sprouts - Carrots - Cauliflower - Collard Greens - Fennel - Leeks - Lettuce - Mint - Mushroom - Oregano - Parsley - Spinach - Squash - Sweet Potatoes - tomatoes - Turnips - Romanesco
Wondering how to cook these delicious foods? Check out our recipe page on our website!
Want to submit your own recipe for the Field to Table recipe collection? Submit through the form here!
Produce Pick: Romanesco!
💚 Hailing from the Cabbage family, Romanesco was originally grown in Rome and is now grown worldwide!
🥦 It shares characteristics with Broccoli and Cabbage and contains important vitamins and minerals, lots of fiber, and boosts your immune system with beta-carotene!
👩🌾 Find it at the farmers market at Twin Springs Fruit Farm!
📰 Field to Table Articles of Interest 📰
This week’s Article of Interest is Field to Table’s very own news interview! Thank you to Ryan Miller and team for this opportunity! Watch using the link below.
Fighting Food Insecurity in Arlington
As a part of Field to Table’s mission of fighting food insecurity in Arlington, we donate annually to Arlington Food Assistance Center and Culpepper Gardens.
Arlington Food Assistance Center: Since Field to Table’s inception, AFAC has sent volunteers to Field to Table markets for weekly pick-ups of donated produce from farm vendors and nonperishable foods donated by market customers. In addition to our annual monetary contribution of $10,000, our markets donate thousands of pounds of freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, which are immediately distributed to Arlington residents experiencing food insecurity.
How you can get involved: Donate nonperishable food items at the farmers market collection bins located at the market tables, donate to AFAC, or volunteer your time.
AFAC is hosting their 14th Annual Empty Bowls event on Supper Bowl Sunday! (2/8)! This event is a luncheon fundraiser featuring many delicious homemade soups made by chefs from local restaurants and beautiful hand-thrown bowls created by local area artists. Consider a sponsorship to be a part of the event! Use the link here!
Open Sundays, 8am-12pm, Summer (Apr-Nov) | 9am-1pm, Winter (Dec - Mar)
Cardinal Elementary School | 1644 North McKinley Road, Arlington, VA 22205
Open Sundays, 9am-1pm, Winter (Dec - Mar) | 8am-12pm, Summer (Apr-Nov)
Cardinal Elementary School | 1644 North McKinley Road, Arlington, VA 22205
Check out the complete vendor list and map.
What happened to the music?
Wondering what happened to the music at the market? During the winter market, Westover does not host weekly musicians to protect freezing fingers, toes, and instruments! We will have musicians again in April!
Want to keep up with our musicians? Check out their websites and social media pages to see where they will be playing over the winter!
Vendor Spotlight: Black Rock Orchard
Black Rock Orchard is a family farm located in Carroll County, Maryland on the Pennsylvania border. Their claim to local fame is an original Mason Dixon mile marker located in the plums.
They offer a wide variety of tree fruit and berries, including raspberries, sour cherries, gooseberries, blueberries, pluots, apricots, peaches plums, pears, gooseberries, elderberries, figs and an insane number of apples varieties, including both traditional and modern cultivars.
Black Rock Orchard works hard to meet the challenge of being able to offer a wide variety of fruit, from summer raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries, apricots, nectarines and peaches to fall pluots, Italian prune plums and fall raspberries.
They are proud of the wide selection of apples they grow, starting with summer varieties such as Lodi, Summer Rambo and Ginger Gold, early fall favorites like Honey Crisp and Jonagold and ending with old favorites like Stayman Winesap and Ida Red and newer varieties like Pink Lady and Gold Rush. Our selection of apple cultivars includes unique heirloom varieties like Golden Russet, Hauer Pippin and Calville Blanc. Recent plantings include EverCrisp and LudaCrisp.
They also grow a wide selection of pears including Asian Pears, Bartlett, Magness, Seckel and Bosc, including some new USDA pear varieties especially developed for their local growing area.
Because of their improved storage methods and use of greenhouses, they can provide our community with apples and pears throughout the season and extend tomato (including specialty greenhouse and heirloom tomatoes) and fig growing seasons!
The owners, David Hochheimer and Emily Zaas, support one family and employ 6 additional full time workers all year. Their fruit sales at Westover help keep their farm in business. Supporting small farms and orchards like theirs is instrumental in keeping their family farm intact as an agricultural farm, so thank you to loyal customers like yourselves!
THIS WEEK’S (Too snowy last weekend!) 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!
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!