Certified by the California Department of Agriculture since its 1992 founding, the Ocean Beach Farmers Market occupies the entire 4900 block of Newport Avenue between Cable and Bacon Streets every Wednesday. The market draws more than 100 vendors weekly, mixing certified growers with hot-food stalls serving international street cuisine alongside the live-music stages and artisan craft booths that define OB's event calendar at venues like The Thursday Club. Produce comes direct from regional farms under CFM rules that require growers to sell their own harvest, which means shoppers can ask the farmer who picked their strawberries how the crop was irrigated. Artisan vendors rotate through a juried application process managed by the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association, the nonprofit BID operator that has run the market since its launch. Gallery and studio artists selling at the market extend the same Newport Avenue creative corridor anchored by BE Studios just blocks away. Full-block street closures, on-site CFM compliance inspections, and OBMA-coordinated vendor logistics make this one of the largest single-street certified markets in San Diego County.