Face coverings are recommended for all persons in the market.
One Way Flow encouraged.
Please don’t come to the market if you are unwell or at high-risk.
Wash your hands thoroughly as soon as you return home.
If you have any concerns, don’t hesitate to ask one of the market managers.
Be kind, be patient, and be considerate of the most cautious among us (Westover Beer Garden)
Pre-order for Pick Up
Local developer wosomoso.com provides the Westover to Go pre-order page allowing you to shop with multiple vendors on one order. Each vendor will have your order waiting for you at their booth. If you choose, on the order form, your orders can be collected at the Winter Food Hub
Smith Family Farms — call or text Leigh Smith at 571-220-0017 Pick up your orders at the market, between 9:00am – 1:00pm, on Sunday. Have your confirmation handy. CSA boxes sell out, so do your online shopping early!
Local developer wosomoso.com provides the Westover to Go pre-order page allowing you to shop with multiple vendors on one order. Each vendor will have your order waiting for you at their booth.
Smith Family Farms — call or text Leigh Smith at 571-220-0017 Pick up your orders at the market, between 8:00am – 12:00pm, on Sunday. Have your confirmation handy. CSA boxes sell out, so do your online shopping early!
In order to preserve physical distancing, entrance is from Washington Blvd and foot traffic flows one way up the street.
Check to see if there is a line to enter and go to the end of the line. There will be a “gatekeeper” monitoring the number of people entering and will tell you when it’s OK to enter.
Look for the bright yellow distancing tape if there are lines and in front of vendor booths.
Let the gatekeeper know which vendors you are picking up from, if there are no lines in front of them, you might be allowed to enter the market ahead of others waiting fin line for other vendors.
There are limited grab and go items from most vendors, which you are welcome to purchase, but pre-ordering is the best way to keep everyone moving safely through the market in a timely manner. See the end of this post for some of the grab-and-go offerings and plan your list in advance.
Market Community Safety
What We’re Doing
Vendors are set up further apart to allow more space in between
Reflowing foot traffic in one direction to minimize passing (enter at Wash. Blvd, exit at 18th Street)
Staying current on ordnance and guidance from state and local government and health departments
What You Should Do
Only one adult family member should enter the market to pick up purchases.
Kindly leave kids at home. We love children, but they add to crowding at market and pose a risk to our senior shoppers.
Please don’t come to market if you are unwell or at high-risk. We recommend following current CDC guidelines for facial coverings while out of the home.
Wash your hands thoroughly as soon as you return home.
Once you’ve picked up your orders, we ask you to exit at the opposite end on 18th Street so that other customers can enter.
If you have any concerns, don’t hesitate to ask one of the market managers.
While pre-ordering is the preferred method of acquiring ALL of your market shopping, some vendors bring pre-packaged produce, value-added and prepared food items for sale. You are welcome to pick up whatever you need, but please make a list, know what you want, and refrain from browsing while at the market. Here are some of the items that were available at the last market. Check with your favorite vendors for this weeks offerings.
Westover Farmers Market managers and volunteers are working hard to ensure that customers and vendors are safe in the market and everyone has access to locally grown, healthy and delicious food.
To
all our WFM family of customers, vendors and volunteers. Watch this
space for links and information for online ordering for Sunday pick up
at Westover farmers markets. The onsite logistics are evolving to make
sure everyone shops and works in a safe environment, but many of our
producers and vendors have already retooled for this new reality and we
will do whatever we are allowed to do to support them.
Here is
the official announcement from the Virginia Dept. of Agricultural and
Consumer Services: “VDACS Commissioner Dr. Jewel Bronaugh clarified that
farmers markets may only accept pre-ordering or online ordering — items
have to be packaged and ready for pickup at the market. This order goes
into effect at 11:59 PM on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 and will remain in
place until 11:59 PM on Thursday, April 23, 2020.”
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For information on pre-ordering for pickup at the Westover Farmers Market on Sunday mornings, please refer to the Online Westover Farmers Marketplace. For information about vendors not available on the Online Marketplace check their Vendors description.
Online ordering now available!The Westover Farmers Market is trying out a new online ordering system.
Market customers may place and pay for their orders Monday through
Friday and then pick up their orders from vendors on Sunday. Never miss
out on your favorite food items again! Participating vendors include:
BrainSnac, Cold Country Salmon, Dimitri Olive Farms, DMV Empanadas,
Holly Brook Farms, Paella to Go, and Prufrock Artisanal Goods. Place
your order here: https://woso.co/westover.
The Westover Farmers Market will not take place on Sunday, March 27. We wish all a very happy Easter. And for those looking for some entertainment, on Saturday March 26 the annual Westover Easter Egg Hunt and associated festivities will take place behind the Reed School at 10:30 am. Guaranteed fun for the whole family. See you back at the market next on April 3.
There are some cooking ventures that are scarier than others. For some people, making pasta is something they would never try and leave the job to the professionals. Others may want to take on the challenge and try to make it themselves. But by the end of this recipe, you will see that making raviolis is not as hard as it may see. With the right ingredients, you can go far! Continue Reading
A new seasonal farmers market recipe from International Palate:
We all know that strange feeling when you realize that something you thought occurred a few weeks ago actually occurred a few months ago! The feeling presents itself more so as a shock…a shock of how quickly time goes by. Well, it’s 2016 and I’ve been waiting to share this recipe since May 2015…8 months ago. This recipe has been sitting on the back burner for quite some time now, only because it still feels like I made this recipe a week or so ago. But now, it’s finally time to share this recipe…before I forget about it again for another 12 months. Continue Reading.
The Westover Farmers Market will be open this Sunday during usual winter hours, 9 – 1. Vendors will be back with their seasonal fruits and vegetables and with wonderful baked goods and other locally prepared foods. Come to the market to see where all of last Sunday’s snow has been placed! A monumental effort by local market volunteers to get the market reopened.
On account of the impending snow and the likelihood of difficult travel conditions, the Westover Farmers Market will not take place on January 24. Impromptu snow angel competition on the Reed School plaza instead. Stay safe, and see you on January 31.
