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Sustainable Farming Association Guidelines for Growers/Vendors
WHO MAY PARTICIPATE
- Anyone in the Duluth and nearby communities may participate.
- A grower may participate once during the season
for a minimal participation space fee of $7.00 without being a member
of Sustainable Farming Association.
- To participate more than once - membership with the Sustainable Farming
Association is required. Cost are membership fee of $30.00 per year
and a weekly participation space fee of $7.00. Note that the $7.00 is
due only on days that growers participate. For more information or to
print the membership form, go to http://www.lakesuperiorfarming.org
You may also contact Leah Nelson at 218-940-2138.
- If growers themselves are not available to sell at the market, they
may have a representative (a hired helper from the farm or other family
members) sell the products for them. The representative should however,
be able to explain the growing techniques, if asked.
- Growers participating may be certified organic, grown in accordance
organic (if you sell less than $5000 in produce in a year), or sustainable
non-organic, but not required.
ITEMS THAT MAY BE SOLD
- When the market started in 2000, UMD Auxiliary Services stated that
only locally grown plants and food could be sold at the market. In 2008,
the rules changed so that locally made arts and crafts may also be sold
by growers to supplement the plant and other food item sales.
- Growers may only sell what they grow. They may not sell items grown
by other growers.
- Baked goods guidelines: http://www.dehs.umn.edu/poh_fwh_bakesale.htm
- If selling baked goods, must have a sign that says "Baked goods
are homemade and not subject to state inspection."
- Visit the Minnesota Department of Agriculture for other information
- Produce or products must be made or produced in U.S.A. Table must
have a sign that says "Produce or products made in U.S.A."
- A partial list of goods that have been sold at the Farmers Market
at UMD were:
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eggs
baked goods
berries
crafts
cut flowers
eggs
herbs & spices |
house plants
honey
jams & jellies
maple syrup
mushrooms
meats (inspected)
soaps |
teas
tinctures & balms
transplants
veggies
wild fruits
wooden goods |
PARKING/SET-UP
- At anytime, do not block the Kirby Plaza doors or bus loading/unloading
zone, while you are loading, unloading or setting up.
- Vehicles may be unloaded from Parking Lot K and goods carried to the
site, Kirby Plaza in front of UMD Stores.
- Lot K has parking meters that must be fed with coins or a parking
ticket may be issued by the UMD Campus Police.
- Growers may sell from their vehicles while parked in Lot K but will
not be as visible to customers.
- Growers are responsible in providing their own tables, chairs, canopies,
etc. Canopies may be set-up in the grassy area and taken down at the
end of the day.
- Growers are allowed under the edge of the Kirby Plaza awning.
- Growers may setup between 1:30 and 2:00 p.m. or earlier, if preferred.
During inclement weather, growers may set up inside Kirby Plaza unless
UMD Stores has reserved the space for other events.
SALE TIME
- Sale time starts at 2:00 p.m. and goes until sellout or 4:30 p.m.
- Growers must be courteous with customers and each other.
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