Stock up on Thanksgiving fare at holiday market

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Old Beach Farmers Market will hold a special holiday market from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 17 at Croc's Bistro, 19th Street and Cypress Avenue in Virginia Beach.

When you go, take along some canned goods, pasta and other nonperishable foods and drop them off at the Old Beach Green Market on Cypress Avenue just around the corner - the green market is holding a food drive for the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia. You will also find 12 vendors selling eco-friendly products.

Another market

The Portsmouth Olde Towne Farmers Market remains open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays on Court Street off High Street.

Greens and beans

In the mood for beans? "It all depends on the frost," said Barbara Henley of Henley's Farm on Charity Neck Road in Virginia Beach. You can pick your own butter beans and string beans until the first frost. Then you can pick your own collards afterward. Call (757) 426-7501.

Holiday meats

Tomorrow is the deadline for ordering fresh Amish turkeys, fresh and cured hams, duck, goose or lamb for Thanksgiving from the Five Points Community Farm market on Church Street in Norfolk. Order at the market or online at www.5ptsfarmmarket.org.

Fresh fish

With the arrival of the last two cold fronts, rockfish (aka striped bass) have made their appearance. The big fish migrate from the rivers into the Bay, said Richard Welton of Welton's Fresh Seafood in Virginia Beach. Welton gets the tasty fish fresh three times a week now. Oysters are getting fat and firm in the cold crisp air too, he said.

Correction

If you had trouble reaching Price Clark, who makes Prize's Pantry prize-winning sourdough breads, the correct email address is: pricec02@yahoo.com.

Mary Reid Barrow, barrow1@cox.net