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Rehoboth Beach Farmers Market opens for 20th season

Located at Grove Park, there will be local vendors every Tuesday until Oct. 28
The Rehoboth Beach Farmers Market kicked off its 2025 season May 6. It will now be open every Tuesday through October. Pictured is Jeff Shirk leaving the market with a couple of tomato plants. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood
May 11, 2025

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Rehoboth Beach Farmers Market
Grove Park
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States

Cloudy skies turned blue for the Rehoboth Beach Farmers Market when it opened for its 20th season May 6.

Market Master Pat Coluzzi started the venture in 2006. She said it’s turned into a fun community gathering spot. 

“I love it here. This is my happy place, and it’s everybody else’s happy place too,” said Coluzzi.

The market kicked off in its traditional manner – Henry DeWitt walked the grounds playing his bagpipes before ending at the market’s welcoming table, where Coluzzi rang a cowbell to mark the opening of the season.

There are roughly three dozen vendors this year offering food, fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods, coffee, jams and jellies, desserts, seedlings for gardens and more.

Coluzzi said the market will celebrate its 20th year near the end of the season.

The Rehoboth Beach Farmers Market is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesdays, through October in Grove Park near the Rehoboth Avenue traffic circle. For more information, go to rbfarmersmarket.com or the market’s Facebook page for weekly updates.

Caribbean Sazón’s Mari Cifuentes puts the finishing touches on a freshly made empanada.
Old World Bakery’s Odalys Ramirez bags one selection of goodies while taking an order for more.
Spectrum Farms out of Felton has bouquets of its own special-cut flowers for sale.
In case the tent didn’t give it away, Anita’s Vegan Kitchen makes, among other things, guacamole.
Henlopen Sea Salt owner Steve Raleigh answers questions from customers on what type of salt they should use.
Fifer Orchards always has strawberries and rhubarb on hand when the market opens.
Belle Grove Tea Co. has a variety of teas made up for customers to taste.
He isn’t wearing his kilt, but Henry DeWitt walks the grounds while playing bagpipes to kick off the market season.
The weather is warming up, and it will be mojito season soon. Herbs, Spice, Everything Nice has the mint covered.
Stag Run Farm owner Lenore Brady shows off one big jar of honey.
All season long, the Community Resource Center will be collecting produce items to help supplement the loss of some planned food deliveries.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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