Since 2011
3 Tips for Market Etiquette in the Time of Covid-19
Dear customers, here is how we are honoring you during emergency measures:
1. Contact - keep 3’ minimum distance apart for non-family individuals
a. We need to keep our distance so we will be managing the crowd size entering and length of time at the market. 11:45am to 1pm are usually the less crowded hours.
b. We ask you to shop at a good pace to make room for other market-goers entering the market.
c. Touching – you touch it, you buy it! Let the farmer help you pick and fill your bags.
2. Washing
a. Please wash your reusable bags on delicate cycle and hang to dry, before bringing to our community market.
b. We have an assisted hand washing station at the welcome booth and vendors will have hand sanitizer for you to keep safe.
c. The interior bathrooms will be open.
3. Samples
a. We are limiting samples. Packaged samples only. If you are being passed a packaged sample, please do not take it by hand;
b. Ask the vendor to ‘place it on the counter’ for you to pick it up, in order to avoid contact spread.
1. Contact - keep 3’ minimum distance apart for non-family individuals
a. We need to keep our distance so we will be managing the crowd size entering and length of time at the market. 11:45am to 1pm are usually the less crowded hours.
b. We ask you to shop at a good pace to make room for other market-goers entering the market.
c. Touching – you touch it, you buy it! Let the farmer help you pick and fill your bags.
2. Washing
a. Please wash your reusable bags on delicate cycle and hang to dry, before bringing to our community market.
b. We have an assisted hand washing station at the welcome booth and vendors will have hand sanitizer for you to keep safe.
c. The interior bathrooms will be open.
3. Samples
a. We are limiting samples. Packaged samples only. If you are being passed a packaged sample, please do not take it by hand;
b. Ask the vendor to ‘place it on the counter’ for you to pick it up, in order to avoid contact spread.
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“Farmers markets play a critical role in providing fresh, nutritious and locally-produced food products to customers across the state,” said Maryland Secretary of Agriculture, Joe Bartenfelder in a release. “It is important that we keep that supply line open while making sure we implement the same preventative measures used in grocery stores.”
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Joe Bartenfelder, Maryland Secretary of Agriculture
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