Farms Near Norfolk, VA

This market runs in Norfolk's East Beach neighborhood, a planned bayside community near Ocean View at the city's northern edge. The address, 8631 Albemarle Drive, places it a short walk from the Chesapeake Bay beaches. As a neighborhood farmers market on the water side of Norfolk, it draws local growers and food vendors during the warm months. Coastal markets often run seasonally, so check the current schedule before visiting.

Norfolk

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A neighborhood market on Newport Avenue in the Talbot Park section of Norfolk, near Wards Corner in the city's north end. This established residential area between downtown and the Ocean View waterfront gives nearby residents a local spot for produce and farm goods without heading to a larger regional market.

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A free neighborhood food market in Norfolk's Broad Creek area, beside the Jordan-Newby Anchor Branch Library on Park Avenue. It runs through the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore, handing out fresh produce and grocery staples to local families at no cost. This is a food-access distribution point, not a working farm or retail stand, so days and hours follow the Foodbank's posted schedule. Confirm the next distribution with the Foodbank before heading over.

The Ghent Farmers' Market serves Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood, a historic district of early-1900s homes near the Elizabeth River. Set near 730 Spotswood Avenue, it draws produce and prepared goods from Tidewater and Eastern Shore growers during the season. Ghent has long been one of Norfolk's most walkable, close-knit corners.

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A downtown Norfolk market on Saint Paul's Boulevard, beside St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the city's oldest building, dating to 1739 and still bearing a Revolutionary-era cannonball in its wall. The market brings local farmers and vendors to the civic-center area, serving downtown workers and residents with fresh produce near Norfolk's business district.

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The Community Feed at Berkley operates on South Main Street in the Berkley neighborhood of Norfolk, on the south side of the Elizabeth River. It is listed as a community market focused on fresh-food access for the area. Public details are limited, so contact the organizers directly for market days, hours, and what is offered.

Court and High Street Portsmouth

Run by the city's events office, this market fills Court and High Streets in Olde Towne Portsmouth, the historic waterfront district across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk. Vendors line the downtown blocks with Hampton Roads produce and prepared food during the market season.

Virginia Beach

Cowen Synthetics is listed as an agritourism site on Rodney Lane in Virginia Beach, but nothing about a farm or visitor operation could be verified. The name reads more like a manufacturing or trade business than agriculture, so this looks like a mislabeled directory entry.

Hampton

The Buckroe Beach Farmers Market sets up near the bayfront park in Hampton, a short walk from the public beach and bandstand. It's a warm-season market that runs alongside Buckroe's summer concert and outdoor-movie nights, with local produce and vendors filling the park grounds.

A Wednesday farmers market at the Virginia Beach Town Center on Market Street, the city's downtown district of shops and restaurants. Vendors set up midweek with produce, prepared food, and local goods for the office workers and residents around the plaza. The midweek timing sets it apart from the region's weekend markets.

This market sets up along Settlers Landing Road in downtown Hampton, on the waterfront where the Hampton River meets Hampton Roads. One of the oldest continuous English-speaking settlements in the country, Hampton pairs its historic harbor with a walkable downtown of shops and museums. Regional farmers bring produce, flowers, and baked goods, and the market draws foot traffic from the nearby carousel, air and space center, and marina.

A community farmers market on High Street in the Churchland area of Portsmouth, on the city's west side across the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River. This residential corner of South Hampton Roads gives local growers and food makers a neighborhood venue for seasonal produce and homemade goods.

Chesapeake

Virginia Beach

Shore Drive Farm Market sits at 2947 Shore Drive in Virginia Beach, along the corridor near the Chesapeake Bay beaches. Roadside markets like this one sell Tidewater-region produce through the long coastal growing season. Look for local vegetables and fruit in season on the drive toward the bayfront.

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Held at Chesapeake City Park off Greenbrier Parkway, this market gives the city's northern neighborhoods a weekend produce stop. Vendors bring vegetables, baked goods, and crafts to the park's open grounds during the growing season, drawing on Chesapeake's mix of suburban and farm land.

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This is the midweek edition of the Chesapeake Health Department's farmers market on North Battlefield Boulevard, running Wednesdays through the season. The department organizes it to make fresh vegetables and local farm goods easy to grab on a weekday.

Chesapeake's Health Department hosts this farmers market at its Battlefield Boulevard offices, part of a public-health effort to put fresh produce within easy reach. Local vendors bring seasonal vegetables and farm goods to the site during the growing season.

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Lilley Farms and Nursery works land on Tyre Neck Road in Chesapeake's Western Branch area, in the Hampton Roads region. It's listed as both a nursery and an agritourism farm, meaning plants and seasonal produce; call ahead to confirm what's in stock.

Newport News

Virginia Peninsula Foodbank serves the greater Peninsula — Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg, and the surrounding counties — moving donated groceries and fresh produce to partner pantries and mobile distributions. The Chestnut Avenue site in Newport News is one of its distribution points, not a farm or public retail market. Fresh fruit and vegetables often move through these giveaways when they are in season. Contact the Foodbank directly to confirm distribution days and eligibility.

Chesapeake

This Chesapeake farmers market operates on Reservation Road in the Great Bridge section of the city. Chesapeake keeps more working farmland than most Hampton Roads cities, so its markets tend to carry genuinely local produce along with eggs, honey, and prepared foods from area vendors.

The Chesapeake Farmers Marketplace runs beside City Hall on Cedar Road in the Great Bridge area, giving downtown workers and nearby residents a midweek produce stop. Expect a compact market with local growers and food vendors during the warm-season months.

Virginia Beach

The City of Virginia Beach Farmers Market is a permanent, year-round market on Dam Neck Road, built around standing shops and produce stands rather than pop-up tents. Butchers, bakeries, a garden center, and restaurants share the site, and the city runs seasonal events like fall hoedowns there.

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LF Market operates on Knotts Neck Road in Suffolk, the sprawling Hampton Roads city long tied to Virginia's peanut trade; Suffolk is where Planters built its Mr. Peanut brand. Northern Suffolk sits along the Nansemond River in Tidewater farm country, where local growers bring produce and homemade goods to neighborhood markets.

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Mount Pleasant Farm sits on Mt Pleasant Road in the rural southern reaches of Chesapeake, part of the farmland that borders the Great Dismal Swamp in Hampton Roads. The agritourism listing suggests seasonal on-farm activity, but specific offerings weren't available online. Contact the farm to learn what's grown and whether it's open to visitors.

Virginia Beach

Lynnhaven on the half shell: the Ludford brothers of Pleasure House Oysters hand-raise their crop in Virginia Beach's Lynnhaven River, restoring a legendary oyster that once traveled to the tables of presidents. Boat tours through the working oyster farm mix entertainment with estuary education, while the harvest supplies a select circle of Virginia Beach and Norfolk restaurants.

Virginia Beach

Pleasure House Oysters — the Ludford family's Virginia Beach oyster company — is reviving the Lynnhaven oyster, once renowned as the best in the world, caring for every oyster entirely by hand: selected, tumbled, graded, cleaned, counted, and packaged. Three educational boat tours take guests behind the scenes on the Lynnhaven River, and the oysters appear exclusively at fine Hampton Roads restaurants like AAA Four Diamond winner Terrapin.

Game's Farmers Market operates at 503 Harpersville Road in Newport News, on Virginia's Peninsula within the Hampton Roads region. Neighborhood markets like this one carry seasonal produce, eggs, and homemade goods sourced from Tidewater growers through the warm months.

Virginia Beach

Hunt Club Farm has anchored the farm scene on London Bridge Road in Virginia Beach for decades, running a petting farm with pony rides daily from 11 to 5. Big seasonal events fill the calendar: a Harvest Fair in fall, a Spring Fling with an egg hunt, and a Halloween festival. Families also come for the TreeWalk ropes course, the BirdWalk aviary, summer camp and field trips, plus a seasonal farm market. Open daily 10 to 6.

Virginia Beach

The Coastal Harvest Feast is a Virginia Beach food event listed at 2101 Parks Avenue, near the Oceanfront and Neptune's Park. The name points to a seasonal farm-to-table or harvest-themed gathering. No standing details were verifiable online, so check locally for this year's date and format.

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Goldpetal Farm is on Seaboard Road in the Pungo farmland of southern Virginia Beach. The name points to cut flowers, a growing draw in this rural corner of the city where small farms sell blooms and produce direct. Little is published online about hours or offerings.

Held on the Christopher Newport University campus along Avenue of the Arts, this market serves students, staff, and the surrounding Newport News neighborhoods. Campus markets like this one rotate through local produce and food vendors during the academic terms.

Newport News

This market runs at City Center at Oyster Point, a mixed-use plaza built around a fountain in Newport News. Office workers and nearby residents get a warm-season market with produce, cut flowers, and prepared-food vendors set up around the plaza.

Newport News

This market runs at City Center at Oyster Point on Town Center Drive in Newport News, in the office-and-retail district around the fountain plaza. Regional farmers bring produce, flowers, baked goods, and prepared foods to a Hampton Roads city built around shipbuilding and the James River. The City Center setting draws lunchtime and after-work crowds from the surrounding businesses.

Red Mill Green Market runs at 2181 Upton Drive in the Red Mill Commons area of southern Virginia Beach. The coastal Tidewater setting brings produce growers and local food vendors together for residents of the city's south end. It operates seasonally on the region's long warm-weather growing calendar.

Chesapeake

Hickory Ridge Farm runs on South Battlefield Boulevard in Chesapeake, near the North Carolina line. It's listed for agritourism, a common setup in this area for fall pumpkins and family farm days, though the farm doesn't post details online. Contact them directly for seasonal hours.

Virginia Beach

Flanagan Farm sits on Princess Anne Road in the rural Pungo section of Virginia Beach, an area known for its produce farms and roadside stands. The farm is listed for agritourism, with no website posted. Stop by along Princess Anne Road or call ahead to learn what is in season.

Virginia Beach

Flanegan Farm sits on Princess Anne Road in the Pungo area of Virginia Beach, the city's rural southern farm belt. Pungo is strawberry and produce country, and farms along this stretch run roadside stands and pick-your-own in late spring and summer. Specific details on the farm are limited online.

Chesapeake

Triple R Ranch spreads across nearly 400 acres in Chesapeake, running year-round camps, trail rides, and riding lessons. Summer programs range from mini and day camps to teen and adventure camps, and the ranch runs a Special Equestrians program alongside private and group lessons. Church and school groups book retreats with lodging and meeting space. The office keeps Tuesday-through-Saturday hours.

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A produce farm on Princess Anne Road in the Pungo farming district of Virginia Beach, the rural southern end of the city long tied to strawberries and summer vegetables. Vaughan Farms sells its harvest from a roadside stand. Its website is being rebuilt.

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Cullipher Farm runs a berry and pumpkin patch on Princess Anne Road in the Pungo farming area of Virginia Beach. The farm offers pick-your-own berries in summer and a pumpkin patch in fall, plus homemade ice cream and grass-fed beef. It's one of several working farms in Pungo that draw city families out for the day.

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Suffolk

A youth-focused farm on Godwin Boulevard in Suffolk where teenage interns work the fields for pay and community-service hours as part of a personal-development program. The farm sells the vegetables its interns grow, funding a mission built around the young people rather than the produce alone. It runs as Hope for Suffolk, a local nonprofit.

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Virginia Beach

The Vaughan Family has been farming and living on the same land since the early 1700's. Sustainable farming is not just a phrase, it is a way of life passed down from generation to now the 8th generation. We have been named a Century Farm in Virginia, and now also a Bicentennial Farm and we are proud to still be actively farming. Sustainable farming is a way of ensuring that the land, and all its resources are maintained for future generations. Promoting soil health, managing water runoff and us

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Pick-your-own fruits, attractions, grass-fed meat, local/regional produce & provisions, and more.

Suffolk

This seasonal market sets up along Main Street in Smithfield's historic district, the Isle of Wight County town on the Pagan River known for its 18th-century architecture and cured hams. Curb markets like this one put area growers and makers within walking distance of the old downtown storefronts. Expect Tidewater Virginia produce in season.

Smithfield

These markets serve Smithfield and surrounding Isle of Wight County, with a downtown site at 115 Main Street in historic Smithfield on the Pagan River. Smithfield is the home of the country's ham trade and Smithfield Foods. Local growers and food makers bring produce, eggs, and homemade goods during the season, a short drive from the James River near Hampton Roads.

A downtown market on Main Street in historic Smithfield, the Isle of Wight County town known worldwide for its cured Smithfield hams. The market sits in the walkable historic district along the Pagan River, drawing shoppers to local produce, meats, and crafts among the town's preserved 18th- and 19th-century storefronts.

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Lamp Light Farm is a licensed small family farm in Suffolk, Virginia following regenerative permaculture with no chemicals or pesticides — utilizing what the land provides through the seasons. Beyond farm products, the family offers education and support for aspiring farmers, preserving old trade crafts and advocating for sustainable living in unity with wildlife.

Smithfield

Darden's Country Store sits in Smithfield, Virginia's ham country, selling cured ham and homemade goods from its farm store on Bowling Green Road. The shop leans into old-fashioned country fare rather than a large agritourism operation. Check the store directly for current stock and hours.

Moyock

J.C. Rose Farms is on Camelia Drive in Moyock, in Currituck County at North Carolina's northeast corner near the Virginia line. It's a family farm in the coastal Albemarle region; its specific crops or farm-stand offerings aren't documented online. Reach out directly to confirm what's available.

Cape Charles

Shockley Farms works land on Seaside Road near Cape Charles, on Virginia's Eastern Shore in Northampton County. The Shore's sandy soils and long growing season make it prime ground for tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and other produce sold at local stands. Specific crops and hours for this farm aren't confirmed online, so contact them before visiting.

A Virginia farm listed by name alone, with no city or product details online. The playful name hints at poultry or eggs, though nothing published backs that up. Its offerings and location stay unconfirmed for now.