Riverside Chefs Create Custom Dishes Featuring Local Farm Ingredients for National Farmers Market Week

Homespun Kitchen, Pie95 Pizza, Cool Moose Cafe, and 13 Gypsies will offer dishes featuring fresh and local ingredients from Riverside Arts Market farmers, exclusively Aug. 3-9

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Jacksonville, Fla. (July 29, 2025) - To celebrate National Farmers Market Week, Aug. 3-9, Riverside Arts Market (RAM) is partnering with four neighborhood restaurants to create custom dishes featuring fresh and local ingredients from area farmers.

National Farmers Market Week is an annual celebration of farmers markets proclaimed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and coordinated by the Farmers Market Coalition (FMC), a membership-based nonprofit organization that supports farmers markets nationwide through training, technical assistance, and network-building. Each year, FMC’s National Farmers Market Week campaign highlights the vital role farmers markets play within our nation’s local food systems. 

To bring the nationwide initiative to a hyper-local level, RAM is proud to partner with Homespun Kitchen, Pie95 Pizza, Cool Moose Cafe, and 13 Gypsies, all locally owned restaurants in the Riverside neighborhood. Each restaurant has produced custom dishes featuring select ingredients sourced from RAM farmers, which will be available to diners Aug. 3-9 during the restaurant’s regular operating hours. The availability of the custom dishes at each restaurant is subject to change, as is the preparation of each custom dish. 

(All photos: Amanda Rosenblatt)

Homespun Kitchen (Riverside location only)
1030 Oak Street
Jacksonville, Fla. 32204
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 7am-9pm; Sunday, 9am-7pm

Dishes:

Market Toast - homemade bread, avocado, local tomato + garlic confit, local broccoli microgreens, sea salt, organic balsamic vinegar

Tomatoes: Preserving Nature Farm
Broccoli microgreens: Kravey Gardens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cucumber Lemonade - local cucumber juice, organic lemon juice, homemade simple syrup

Cucumbers: Alvarez Farms (Raiford, Fla.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pie95 Pizza
1510 King Street
Jacksonville, Fla. 32204
Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 5-9pm; Friday - Saturday, 4:30-9:15pm; Sunday - Monday, closed

Dishes:
Tuna Plum Kale Salad - local kale, tuna, local plums, ricotta, sunflower seeds, citrus + extra virgin olive oil

Kale and plums: Abundant Harvests Farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burrata Caprese - Roma + local cherry tomatoes, burrata, local julienne red onion, basil, balsamic vinaigrette, finished with balsamic glaze + extra virgin olive oil 

Cherry tomatoes and red onion: Abundant Harvests Farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cool Moose Cafe
2708 Park Street
Jacksonville, Fla. 32204
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 8am-2pm; Monday - Tuesday, closed

Dishes:

Irish Breakfast Hash - shredded potatoes, "super" cabbage mix & leafy green vegetables grilled in butter to perfection, and topped with braised corned beef and eggs

Eggs: Schmoe Farm
Onions, Swiss chard, kale: Abundant Harvests Farm
Brunch salt: Summa Salts

 

 

 

 

 

 

Country Farm Breakfast Sandwich - choice of toasted English muffin or bread, local breakfast sausage, local scrambled egg, goat cheese spread, finished with local brunch salt

Breakfast sausage and eggs: Schmoe Farm
Brunch salt: Summa Salts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13 Gypsies
887 Stockton Street
Jacksonville, Fla. 32204
Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 5-9pm; Friday - Saturday, 5-10pm; Sunday - Monday, closed
Reservations recommended by calling the restaurant at 904-389-0330 or visiting OpenTable

Dishes:

Peperonata - local sweet bell peppers stewed in local onions, garlic and tomatoes, seasoned with local Vampire Killer garlic salt, served over 13 Gypsies risotto

Bell peppers, onions and tomatoes: Abundant Harvests Farm
Vampire Killer garlic salt: Summa Salts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wet Cure Pork - pork loin preserved and marinated in a red wine brine for multiple days, served with 13 Gypsies’ peasant bread and housemade accouterments

Pork loin: Schmoe Farms
Brine salt: Summa Salts

 

 

 

 

 

About Riverside Arts Market
Produced by Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP), the Riverside Arts Market, colloquially known as RAM, is a true loyal-to-local market featuring more than 150 artists, farmers, makers, and entrepreneurs from the immediate region. Founded in 2009, RAM also includes the River Stage, offering the community free entertainment through local musical, dance, and other cultural interest activities. RAM operates every Saturday, rain or shine, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, visit www.riversideartsmarket.org.

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