We have been working with our vendors, board of directors, Lancaster Service Safety Director and Fairfield County Department of Health to create a plan that keeps real food within reach while also keeping us all safe.
We will depend on your cooperation for safety and success. You can help by keeping an eye out for how the market will operate, for any changes as we move through the season, and by communicating these new guidelines to friends in order to help get the word out. Thanks more than ever for your support of our local producers!
We take our responsibility to our farmers and producers and to you, our customers, very seriously. Our role to connect people with good food is more important than ever in these times. And we recognize that safety is our number one concern right now and must be at the forefront of all our decisions and plans. Minimizing risk from COVID-19 for not only our customers, but also our vendors, staff and volunteers will be paramount.
General Guidelines
We will encourage vendors to utilize pre-order/pre-paid sales as much as possible. This allows for access to local foods while encouraging contact-free transactions and social distancing at the market and providing a safer atmosphere for our customers and vendors. Vendors may collect orders & payments earlier in the week with the platform of their choice, and the market will advertise each vendor’s procedure. Vendors who choose to conduct in person transactions must do so in adherence to established guidelines.
Vendors will set up booths, not too different from our normal configuration, but with extra space (6-10 ft) in between booths. There will be metered pedestrian traffic into the market, with a widened central pedestrian aisle. Customers will enter from one location and move through the market with one way traffic, toward one exit location. They will pick up their own orders from the booths they have purchased from. Vendors will set up a table 6 feet in front of their booths for this purpose. We will use chalk, caution tape, and signage to communicate new procedures. Parking will remain the same, in the lot across Chestnut Street.
If we have more customers at a time than are allowed in the space, we will mark out places to wait 6 ft apart down the sidewalk. 8:30 - 9:00 will be reserved for vulnerable populations, market will run 8:30 - 12:00.
We will cancel all extracurricular activities (music, children’s activities, community organizations, cooking demos, etc) until further notice.
We will re-evaluate throughout the season based on the facts and recommendations available to us.
Guidelines for Customers
Guidelines for Vendors:
We will depend on your cooperation for safety and success. You can help by keeping an eye out for how the market will operate, for any changes as we move through the season, and by communicating these new guidelines to friends in order to help get the word out. Thanks more than ever for your support of our local producers!
We take our responsibility to our farmers and producers and to you, our customers, very seriously. Our role to connect people with good food is more important than ever in these times. And we recognize that safety is our number one concern right now and must be at the forefront of all our decisions and plans. Minimizing risk from COVID-19 for not only our customers, but also our vendors, staff and volunteers will be paramount.
General Guidelines
We will encourage vendors to utilize pre-order/pre-paid sales as much as possible. This allows for access to local foods while encouraging contact-free transactions and social distancing at the market and providing a safer atmosphere for our customers and vendors. Vendors may collect orders & payments earlier in the week with the platform of their choice, and the market will advertise each vendor’s procedure. Vendors who choose to conduct in person transactions must do so in adherence to established guidelines.
Vendors will set up booths, not too different from our normal configuration, but with extra space (6-10 ft) in between booths. There will be metered pedestrian traffic into the market, with a widened central pedestrian aisle. Customers will enter from one location and move through the market with one way traffic, toward one exit location. They will pick up their own orders from the booths they have purchased from. Vendors will set up a table 6 feet in front of their booths for this purpose. We will use chalk, caution tape, and signage to communicate new procedures. Parking will remain the same, in the lot across Chestnut Street.
If we have more customers at a time than are allowed in the space, we will mark out places to wait 6 ft apart down the sidewalk. 8:30 - 9:00 will be reserved for vulnerable populations, market will run 8:30 - 12:00.
We will cancel all extracurricular activities (music, children’s activities, community organizations, cooking demos, etc) until further notice.
We will re-evaluate throughout the season based on the facts and recommendations available to us.
Guidelines for Customers
- Customers must stay home and not return until they are free of fever for at least 72 hours without fever-reducing medication and improvement in respiratory symptoms and at least 7 days have passed since symptoms first appeared
- Please send one member from your household to pick up your food to limit the number of people in the space.
- Please prioritize essential food purchasing and discontinue social gatherings at the market until further notice.
- Practice the recommended 6 ft social distancing from one another while at market, and while waiting to enter market
- Please do not touch products until you’ve purchased them. Vendor will bag your products for you.
- Clean/sanitize your hands frequently.
- Please wear a cloth face covering as recommended by CDC guidelines: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html
- No pets allowed until further notice. (This does not include service animals.)
Guidelines for Vendors:
- Pre-orders with pre-payment are strongly encouraged and will be promoted.
- No vendors who sell solely artisan crafts until further notice.
- No on site food preparation or food sampling until further notice.
- Take your temperature before coming to market. Do not come to market if your temperature is more than 100.4 degrees F.
- Sick vendors, employees, and volunteers must stay home and not return until they are free of fever for at least 72 hours without fever-reducing medication and improvement in respiratory symptoms and at least 7 days have passed since symptoms first appeared
- Please wear gloves; Change to new gloves when you switch tasks.
- Please wear a cloth face covering as recommended by CDC guidelines: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html
- Sanitize your stand regularly. See CDC guidelines here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/disinfecting-building-facility.html
- Discontinue the use of tablecloths and other porous materials such as baskets. Please use only materials that can be washed and sanitized after use.
- Clean/sanitize your hands frequently.
- Use only new bags for the packaging and sale of goods.
- If collecting payments on site, designate one person to handle food and one person to handle payment if at all possible
