Hampton Blvd Farmers Market

Hampton Blvd Farmers Market ties its identity to the Virginia Farmers Market Association, where its managers say they are proud members. That affiliation fits a market with a tightly defined focus: locally farmed, harvested, and produced agricultural goods, specialty foods, and a narrower lane for handmade household goods made largely with agricultural items. Set at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd at 7400 Hampton Blvd. in Norfolk, the market brings that local-food emphasis to a church property on Hampton Boulevard near North Shore Road. The result is a market that reads as food-first rather than craft-first, with the vendor mix built around produce, proteins, prepared foods, drinks, and pantry staples.

Why it matters locally

The market’s vendor rules draw a firm line around agricultural goods, specialty foods, and selected handmade household goods tied largely to agricultural items. That means the Norfolk stop at Good Shepherd is designed around food and farm buying, not around art, clothing, antiques, used goods, or mass-produced merchandise, all of which are excluded.

That local emphasis shows up in the roster itself. Shoppers can pick up fruits and vegetables from farms and urban growers, seafood, pasture-raised meats and eggs, local raw honey, locally roasted coffee, kombucha, breads, pies, cheeses, and specialty pantry goods from named regional businesses. Even the market managers’ connection to the Virginia Farmers Market Association reinforces that this is a market organized around farmers market practice rather than a general vendor fair.

What you'll find there

The mix here leans hard toward food you can cook with, drink on site, or carry home for later, with a noticeable range from raw ingredients to ready-to-eat market fare. Produce and proteins anchor the lineup, but the surrounding stalls add enough bakery, beverage, and pantry depth to turn one stop into dinner shopping plus extras.

• -Pick up oysters, dry packed scallops, shrimp, fresh fish, crabs, crab meat, and crab cakes from Captains Choice Seafood.
• -Find sauces, spice mix, salad dressing, aged country hams, ham salad, pork barbecue, petite savory pies, and wine vinegars from Cowboy Syd's Products.
• -Shop fresh fruits and vegetables from Eggleston Urban Farm.
• -Choose pasture raised chicken and eggs, farm-raised pork, grass fed beef, plus grilled meats and sandwiches from Full Quiver Farm.
• -Look for fresh fruits, vegetables, and farm-grown flower bouquets at Liliana Produce.
• -Gather fresh fruits, vegetables, and fresh herbs from Norma's Produce at Penn Farm.
• -Pour a bottle of kombucha from Red Mushroom Brewing Company.
• -Browse cheese spreads, regional artisan cheeses, crackers, Virginia peanuts, chow chow, hot sauces, and bloody mary mixes from The Creative Wedge.
• -Add sweet and savory pies, including tomato pies, from The Rustic Tart.
• -Sip locally roasted coffee, including cold brew, from Three Ships Coffee.
• -Bring home artisan breads and pastries from Bodacious Bakehouse.
• -Stock up on local raw honey, cut comb honey, creamed honeys, beeswax cakes, handmade soaps, and body scrub from Sunshine Farm and Apiary.
• -Grab hand rolled soft pretzels and pretzel sandwiches from LMNz Twistet Pretzel.
• -Cool off with all natural pops from Joysicles Gourmet Pops.
• -Pick up yeast doughnuts made on-site and fresh squeezed lemonade from Klassic Doughnuts.
• -Add all natural dog and cat treats from BowWowMeow Baking Co..
• -Sharpen kitchen tools and other blades with Max The Knife Sharpening.

A special Thanksgiving market may be added in November if space allows, and that is when the market may include a handful of local artisans with handmade goods.

Know before you go

Parking is the first detail to plan around: the church lot can accommodate some, but not all, market customers, and overflow parking shifts to nearby streets. The market specifically asks drivers not to block residents’ driveways when using neighborhood street parking.

This is a no-dogs market, so that policy may shape your trip before you leave home. Restrooms are not available on site. The market runs rain or shine, though brief thunderstorms early in the market day can temporarily pause sales, and widespread storms or storms in the final hour may force an early close. If weather does interrupt the day, the market posts a notice on its home page.