Warwick Weekend Events: Quahogs, Food Trucks, Markets

WARWICK, RI — This week’s  Warwick Weekend events begin with Goddard Park’s Farmer’s Market and Roger Williams’ Food Truck Friday,  the final days of Quahog Week, a fundraiser 5K and an emerging artists exhibit.

The weather for this round of Warwick Weekend events promises to be kinda cloudy with temps in the mid to high 60s, according to the National Weather Service.

Warwick Weekend Events Friday:

Quahog Week Final Friday Quahog Week highlights the many restaurants, markets, fishermen, and food-based businesses committed to growing Rhode Island’s local food economy, with special emphasis on wild harvest clams. Restaurants and markets across Rhode Island will celebrate this sustainable resource and its year-round availability by featuring a quahog dish on their menu. Three local spots are participating: Iggy’s RI has a stuffed quahog special. Iron Works will be featuring their Rhode Island Stuffies, made with Chourico, fresh herbs, Old Bay, and sourdough stuffing – yum! And Dave’s Fresh Marketplace offers fresh shellfish, local, fresh seafood, and prepared seafood dishes.

Goddard Park Farmer’s Market Every Friday through Columbus Day Weekend, RI Grown, DEM’s farmer’s market program, hosts farmer’s market at Goddard Park selling delicious and freshly-harvested local foods direct from the farm to your dinner table.

Roger Williams Food Truck Fridays The Carousel campus at Roger Wiliams Park Zoo has a lot of open space and rolling hills shaded by trees, the perfect spot to grab dinner from a food truck and listen to music and entertainment during the park’s Food Truck Fridays event. The outdoor food truck festival at Carousel Village starts at 5 pm. Attendance is free, just pay for what you eat and drink from an ever changing rotation of more than 15 food trucks each week.

If you miss this one, don’t worry. They’re going on every Friday till the fall.

Norwood branch Library Building Club: Join other kids to create with Legos and Manga-tiles every Friday afternoon at the Norwood Branch.

WCFA ‘EMERGING’ Exhibit WCFA’s exhibit, running through June 6, ‘EMERGING 24,’ features Art created by 60 RI artists aged 14-22, in high school, college and from the ranks of the recently graduated. A closing reception and awards will close the event Thursday, June 6, from 6-7:30 p.m.  The gallery is open from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. every Wednesday through Saturday. There is no charge for admission.

Quahog Week Final Saturday Quahog Week highlights the many restaurants, markets, fishermen, and food-based businesses committed to growing Rhode Island’s local food economy, with special emphasis on wild harvest clams. Restaurants and markets across Rhode Island will celebrate this sustainable resource and its year-round availability by featuring a quahog dish on their menu. Three local spots are participating: Iggy’s RI has a stuffed quahog special. Iron Works will be featuring their Rhode Island Stuffies, made with Chourico, fresh herbs, Old Bay, and sourdough stuffing – yum! And Dave’s Fresh Marketplace offers fresh shellfish, local, fresh seafood, and prepared seafood dishes.

Breath of Hope 5K  Late last summer, our son, Landon, was diagnosed with a rare condition known as idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis, a form of interstitial lung disease characterized by hemorrhaging within the lungs. At this time, there is no known cure for Landon’s condition, but the physicians at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are working tirelessly to find the most successful treatment plans available and, ultimately, a cure.

 We are hosting a 5KSaturday, May 18th at 10:30 a.m. with registration beginning at 10 a.m. You can register for the 5K here at Eventbrite and then make a $35 donation. One hundred percent of the donations will be funding the first-ever study of this disease. Please make sure your first and last name used on the donation form matches your name used for the Eventbrite registration.

Conimicut Village Farmers Market This Saturday, May 11, 9am-12pm – starts The Conimicut Village Farmers Market at 955 West Shore Road just in time for Mother’s Day! The market runs every Saturday until Sept. 28.

WCFA ‘EMERGING’ Exhibit WCFA’s exhibit, running through June 6, ‘EMERGING 24,’ features Art created by 60 RI artists aged 14-22, in high school, college and from the ranks of the recently graduated. A closing reception and awards will close the event Thursday, June 6, from 6-7:30 p.m.  The gallery is open from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. every Wednesday through Saturday. There is no charge for admission.

Author: Rob Borkowski

Rob has worked as reporter and editor for several publications, including The Kent County Daily Times and Coventry Courier, before working for Gatehouse in MA then moving home with Patch Media. Now he's publisher and editor of WarwickPost.com. Contact him at editor@warwickpost.com with tips, press releases, advertising inquiries, and concerns.