Product Deadline
Saturday Market - You may start listing and editing your products anytime between Friday to Tuesday evening. I will turn the site on for the customers Wednesday at 10am, and this will give me a few hours to contact you if I have any questions.

Product Names
The form where you add products instructs you, "If this market has established a naming convention (such as "Tomato - Cherokee Purple"), be sure to follow it. Look at the other products in this category to see if there is a pattern you should be following." Common mistakes are bad spelling, all lower case letters, and incorrect punctuation, naming things any old way makes the listings unorganized and harder for the customers to find what they're looking for. Following our established naming practice requires a small bit of effort from you, but it has much larger effects on our customers and market volunteers later in the week. The core name of the item goes first, followed by a dash, followed by the specific variety and other adjectives. If you are selling two sizes of the same thing, include the size in your product name. For example: "Arugula - Baby Roquette - Large Bag"

Products that do not follow our naming conventions will be changed without notice.

Pricing
You set all of your own prices, but the market keeps 11% of your sales as a "table fee". Keep that in mind while setting your prices. Also, if your prices are set below fair market prices, we'll adjust them up accordingly for the fairness of the other growers. We'll try to contact you first. Finally, please keep in mind that we are moving through many customers in a short period of time, so please keep your prices easy for everyone. That is, don't set something to $1.99 when $2.00 will do. The customers don't want to be digging for pennies and the cashiers can't be calculating that kind of change in a timely manner. We don't have cash registers, and have to do everything by hand.

Delivery
Saturday Market - Unless we've made other arrangements with you, please deliver your orders between 8:30-9:30am at our customer pickup location.

Your money will be waiting for you in the form of a check out of the shared cash box the week after the sale, so sales this week get paid for next week. This give us time to collect from the customers and get the money into the bank.

Labels and Packaging
It makes things so much easier for our market workers and our customers if you have your orders bagged (or packaged as appropriate) and labelled using the labels generated by this website (on your "View Open Orders" page, below).

Should your sales exceed the amount you actually have available, please fill the orders in the order they are shown. If there are orders you cannot fill, you can remove those orders from your sales on the website (on the "View Your Open Orders" page - the same page where you print labels). IT IS THE FARMER'S RESPONSIBILITY TO REMOVE ORDERS FROM THE SALES LIST, NOT THE MARKET MANAGERS'. FAILURE TO REMOVE ORDERS IN A TIMELY MANNER MAY RESULT IN INCORRECT PAYMENTS.
Farmer of the Day
Each market day, we have space available for customers to Meet the Grower". Here's how it works: You get a 6 foot table to set up however you like. You can bring information about your farm, samples, photos, products, anything you like. If you sell anything and bring your own cash box to make change, then you can keep everything you bring in - no table fee. If you want customers to just pay at the market's cash box, then we'll collect the 10% table fee just as if you'd listed through the website. Your choice. You need to be set up and ready to go by Wednesday at 11:45am or Saturday at 9:45am. If you'd like to reserve a market day, look at our sign up page..."Farmer of the Day Sign up

The "Extras" Table
We often have a limited amount of space for you to bring a few extras to sell. Here are the rules:

Everything must be appropriately packaged and labelled with your farm name, the product inside, and the price.

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