customer guidelines

Thank you for shopping locally at the Watertown Farm & Craft Market! The long standing market is loyally located along Washington Street in Downtown Watertown each Wednesday 7AM - 3PM. The 2020 season has continued to provide our community with fresh homegrown and unique handmade products while implementing New York State mandates as an essential business in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are proud to offer an open-air market that is essential to the local community; a venue to buy healthy, local food, an opportunity for shopping while practicing social distancing and an avenue for our customers to connect with the people who grow their food.

We’d like to thank you, our shoppers and our vendors for your support in upholding New York State guidelines. As a community, we must continue to act in compliance with state mandates in order to maintain our status as an essential business and be allowed to continue operation of the market. 

We are operating under strict social distancing guidelines for the health and safety of our customers, vendors, and volunteers. Please help us keep the market safe and healthy by adhering to the following guidelines:
  • If you are not feeling well, please stay home, even with mild illness.
  • Masks are required in the market by customers, vendors and volunteers as per executive order 202.17
  • Only vendors can handle their products. Kindly ask vendors for assistance and be patient until they can attend to you. 
  • Customers should maintain social distancing, staying 6ft apart. Please be respectful of other customers' space and wait if there is someone already at the vendor booth you’d like to go to. 
  • Use the hand sanitizer stations around the market as needed.
  • There is no sampling of products at market.
  • Please come to the market in groups of two or fewer. If you’re a group of two, we encourage splitting up while shopping to get everything you need as quickly as possible.
  • Please do not linger to allow for appropriate social distancing requirements. 

Executive Order 202.17: Requiring any individual over age two, and able to medically tolerate a face-covering, be required to cover their nose and mouth with a mask or cloth face-covering when in a public place (including the Watertown Farm & Craft Market). 
Enjoy fresh, local produce and products from your own community! Thank you for your cooperation. 

With appreciation, 
Market Staff

Note: Guidelines subject to change per NYS directives       
​*Last updated 8, 3, 2020 ​

vendor guidelines

Our Market will be operating under strict social distancing guidelines for the health and safety of our customers, vendors, and volunteers ​under the direction of New York State, Agriculture and Markets. Please see below for the updated Interim Guidance for the Operation of Farmers’ Markets. Also see the Vendor Guidelines, in place to comply with directives from NYS. 

market guideline signage

Vendors, download and print the market guideline signs to display at your booth each week. Edits or alterations to sign content is prohibited. Laminating printed signs is permitted. 

No Mask, No Entry
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Wear A Mask
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Let Vendors Serve You 
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Social Distancing