Bisbee Farmers Market
Vendor Information

Vendor Guidelines
(For printable mail-in form click on Vendor Application form
Coming Soon... in the meanwhile, contact Laura Smith, Market Manager)

Cost: Vendor spaces are $10 per week. All vendors must also pay a $5 one-time administration fee. (Small produce & agricultural food product vendors such as honey, eggs & pecans and non-profits are eligible for a special rate by contacting market manager at 520.227.5060 or laura.haba AT gmail.com.)

Set-up & check In: Set up time is 7 a.m. vendors are to check in at the market information booth upon arrival. Spaces are assigned by market manager and space priority is given to vendors of products for human consumption. Vendors prepaying three (3) months in advance will have their spaces held until 8 a.m.

Vehicles & Parking: No vehicles are allowed in the market place after 7:30 a.m. and prior to 12:15 p.m. except in emergencies. Vendors who require set up next to their vehicle can request adjacent street parking to vendor space.

Electricity: Electricity is available at the market at outlets near the bathrooms and the “music” tree. Vendors who use electricity may be subject to a small additional charge.

Locally grown: Produce must be home-grown within a 75-mile radius. Contact market manager for exceptions.

Crafts: Crafts must be hand-made locally; other items will be deemed "swap meet" items

Equipment: Vendors are to provide their own tables, chairs, canopies and umbrellas. Bring change and bags for customer’s purchases.

Marketing Tips: Vendors are encouraged to be creative with arranging merchandise. display sign with name of farm, ranch or business and its location as well as price listings. Recipes and information about products can enhance sales.

Clean-up: Clean up area of booth plus surrounding area before leaving.

Other Rules: There is no smoking or consumption of alcoholic beverages in the market place. Please keep your children under control at all times; the market assumes no responsibility or liability for any actions either caused by or involving your children. Dogs are to be leashed and under control at all times; vendors are urged to remind customers of this rule and report the offending dog to the market manager.

 

Processed Food Vendors

Processed food vendors must use a licensed commercial kitchen (and have copies of relevant permits or letter authorizing use of a rented licensed commercial kitchen), a food handler’s permit and a category I (for sale of foods that aren’t heated or cooled, for example baked goods without dairy products and honey, pickles), category II (foods that require being maintained above or below a certain temperatures, frozen meat, baked goods with dairy) or category III (foods prepared on site) food vendor permit. Contact Cochise County Health Department at 432-9400 about the food handler’s permit and Carlos Diaz at 432-9442 for other permits.

Licensed commercial kitchens in Bisbee that may be available for small food processors subject to permission of organization and payment if required, after obtaining a food handler’s permit. Processors using these rented kitchens must obtain a letter of authorization to be submitted to health inspector and may be inspected at the kitchen.

Commercial kitchens that can be rented:

Bisbee Community Y (432-3542), $10 per hour or $50/day with a $25 refundable cleaning deposit if kitchen is left as clean as found.

Bisbee Food Coop (432-4011) by permission of store manager.

Warren Community Church (432-4722, for church members only; others can apply through a letter of request to the church board and a $50/month donation.

 

Grower Programs

Backyard Gardeners Program:
Backyard growers with a small amount of produce can arrange with market manager to consign their produce at a market provided table (they receive half of proceeds of produce sale) or rent part of the table for a small fee.

Backyard Growers Group & Organic Garden Tours:
Growers or potential growers are invited to be part of an informal growers group to network and visit with other growers at periodic field trips for growers or Winter and Summer Organic Garden Tours (open to the public) put on by Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture. For more information contact Baja AZ at 520.378.2973 or valerie.mccaffrey AT bajaaz.org.

Arizona Farmers Market Nutrition Program:
Local fruit and vegetable growers can become authorized growers in the Arizona Farmers Market Nutrition Program (AZFMNP) which makes them eligible to accept AZFMNP coupons at the farmers market. In this program designed to increase fruit and vegetable consumption, women and children who participate in the WIC program and seniors who participate in the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) receive a booklet of coupons that can be redeemed for fresh, locally grown produce. These purchases of locally grown fruits and vegetables support farmers markets, provide income to growers and keep consumer food dollars in local communities. Contact market manager for date of free, one-time, 2 hour AZFMNP Grower Training class held once a year in Bisbee and bi-annually in Tucson.