WCFMA & SOMA Present:
2022 Vendor Callout Meeting When: Tuesday April 26, 2022 @ 6:00pm Where: Conference Room @ City Hall (120 W. Washington St. Monticello) Discussion will include rules for vendors, what can be sold at market, packaging products, WIC/Snap vouchers, permits, POP Club and will also include a question & answer session. Mayor Gross will be on hand to answer any questions pertaining to the new home of the Tuesday Farmers Market. Saturday Market: May 14th – October 1st 10am – 1pm @ Rugie’s Dugout (1210 N. 6th St. Monticello) Tuesday Market: May 31st – August 2nd 5pm – 7pm @ City Hall West Bays (120 W. Washington St. Monticello) Please contact Tracy Davidson (Farmers Market Master) for any questions: [email protected]
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First, thank you again for expressing interest in being a vendor within the Monticello Farmers Market! Today, I was hoping to get a count on which Market each Vendor will be attending and items that will be found in your booth. (The Board has adjusted the fees this year to accommodate the shortened Market season. Tuesday Market 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on Constitution Plaza will be $10.00 for the season (Tuesday evenings July 7th - August 4th). No one can unload before 4:00 pm due to the Courthouse/Handicapped Parking. Anytime between 4:15 pm - 5;00 pm you may unload. If you need to utilize the cul-de-sac for unloading you are more than welcome. Please ensure that the South Side of the cul-de-sac is left open for our entertainment to unload and the North Side is left open for one of our Vendors. Saturday Market 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Rugie's Dugout, 6th Street will be $25.00 for the season (Saturday mornings July 4th - October 3rd). Anytime between 8:00 am and 9:00 am can be used for unloading and set up. We utilize the front part of Rugie's parking lot. If you are planning to have a booth on both Tuesdays and Saturdays it will be a combined fee of $30.00 for the season. I will have updated Vendor Applications at the first Markets to hand out.) Are you a Tuesday POP Club Activity or Education Vendor? Can you please send me a list of the Tuesdays you will be attending Market and a list of activities?
During this trying time, Our Board of Directors along with the City of Monticello asks: 1. If any of the vendors show any signs of illness — or if they have tested positive for COVID-19 within the past two weeks or had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 — they should not attend the market. 2. All vendor booths must have hand sanitizer and increase the frequency with which they will disinfect surfaces/objects throughout their booths.3. Vendors should take the following precautions for interactions, pricing, payment and bagging:
New vendors if you are unaware of our Power of Produce or POP Club, it is a great asset for our Market on Tuesdays. The Monticello Public Library and the Monticello Parks Dept., have created great programming for our youth at the Market. They issue POP Club Tokens of $2.00, that can be spent at your booth, for only produce, honey and maple syrup. I advise pre-bagged/packaged $2.00 items, because you are not to give out change for these tokens. At the end of Market, the POP Club Volunteers will tally up the tokens spent at your booth and each vendor is reimbursed via cash at the end of the month. With COVID19, there will not be a 2 Bite Club Activity within the POP Club activities this year. SNAP or Food Stamps is accepted at our Market. I have a machine that allows customers to use their HOOSIER Works card at Market. The customers can swipe their card for a certain amount of money. I will give them tokens, that may be used at participating booths, to be spent on SNAP appropriate items. At the end of the market day, vendors can come to me and I will swap their tokens for cash. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions by email or by phone: 574-870-0720. Again, thank you, I'm looking forward to a great first week of the Monticello Farmers Market Season! Thank you, Tracy Davidson Monticello Farmers Market Master Both Saturday and Tuesday Markets are now in full swing! We have had a couple cancellations due to rain, but all in all we have had some pretty good Markets! We are still short a few of our regular vendors due to the crazy weather this spring, making it hard to get their farms planted. We and their customers have sure been missing them! You will have to check out our brand NEW VENDOR, Sweeet Fudge Friday! Owner Connie Black hand makes her home made fudge and her daughter Michelle is selling the fudge at Market for her. TL High School Graduates and Students can attest to her delicious fudge, because she's been donating fudge every Friday to them for the last 10 years. POP Club has registered 44 kids so far this year. You do not want to miss this amazing summer program kids. If you haven't been yet, you have missed some great events. Last Tuesday during POP Club the Library kicked off their Summer Concert Series with the TIME TRAVELERS. Andrew Westfall with Purdue Extension demonstrated a Drone, Monticello Police Department came and let the kids check out a Police Car, Nothing But Knit (Hats for All Stars), have been teaching kids to knit, Amanda Shelton with Purdue has been doing exercises on the lawn, Two Bite Club and much...much...more to come such as the Monticello Fire Dept. NW Sewer Dist. Bike Safety with the Health Coalition, Susan Jordan with the Health Dept. too much to list. So please check out POP Club this summer! WIC Voucher Customers, the vouchers will be distributed July 16, 23 & 30 during the Market 5pm -7pm. Have a great week and see ya at the Market. Remember.... eat fresh, eat local!
Our first 2019 Monticello Saturday Farmers Market began yesterday at Rugie's Dugout on 6th Street. We had several vendors who ventured out to sell their wares on a beautiful, sunny, yet windy morning. Crosby Farms was well stocked in farm fresh eggs and beautiful hanging baskets. Harvest of the Fields was out with Jams, Jellies, Preservers, delicious Baked Goods and fresh local Asparagus, Green Onions and Rhubarb. Clawson's Sugar Bush offered their scrumptious locally harvested and made Maple Syrup and Maple Candy. D's Deals offered up fresh local Asparagus, Rhubarb and Honey. Musall's was out with healthy locally grown Herb Plants, fresh local Asparagus, Rhubarb, Green Onions, Kale and Spinach straight from their brand new farm partnership, S.L.O.T. Farms, (expect some great things from this farm in the future folks). Last, but not least a brand new vendor, Dragonfly Farms. Established in 208 and owned and operated by Leah George, Dragonfly farms offered local fresh Cut Flowers, locally grown Annual Flowers/Hanging Baskets, dried and fresh Herbs, Heirloom Vegetable Plants and beautiful hand poured Resin Collectables and Jewelry made with her own pressed flowers.. Watch for more vendors as the season progresses, Mulberry Shade Flower Farm (fresh flowers, herbs, oils, spices and crafts), The Farmer's Table (baked goods, pies, rolls, breads, ect…), Small Batch Honey Farm (fresh local honey). Blackwater Farms (locally grown fresh produce). The Mayor's Advisory Board (flowers, herbs and vegetable plants). The Monticello Farmers Market is always looking for more vendors and all Non For Profit Entities are always given FREE booth space. Our Tuesday Market and Power of Produce program begins May 28th, .5 p.m. - 7 p.m. downtown Monticello in the Constitution Plaza. Keep tuned in for important Market WIC disbursement dates. As always, eat fresh, eat local!
Calling all potential Monticello Farmers Market Vendors...
Join us Monday May 6, 6:30pm in Reynolds at the Purdue Extension Office. This meeting is a great way to network with other vendors. There will also be representatives from the POP Club and White County Extension, with info about WIC, Senior WIC, SNAP and the Health Department. We will go over safe market and food safety practices as well. We will have Vendor Applications at this meeting if you need one. Please feel free to email me Tracy Davidson the Market Master at [email protected] or call my cell phone at 574-870-0720 if you have any questions. We have some great NEW vendors this year and if you haven't been to Market, then you need to get here. The Farmer's Table ventures from rural Royal Center, IN and serves up a huge array of delectable home baked goods and home canned jellies, apple sauce and soups. Mulberry Shade Flower Farm comes from Rensselaer, IN and their beautiful non certified organic flowers, bouquets, vegetables, fresh herbs, dried spices and herb oils are out of this world! If Honey is your love, then you must check out the 8 oz or 16 oz jars of Honey harvested by Small Batch Honey Farm, from right here in Monticello, IN. Tuesday Market has ended for the Season, but gets to boast about it's National Farmers Week and POP Club Finale. Our grand total was 281 kids and adults attending and interacting with the Two Bite Club (watermelon by Musall's Fresh Produce), Educational (Foods from outer space by Twin Lakes Science Teacher Jill Gilford), Food Demo (outdoor oven baked pizza by Rob Musall and blueberry bread by White Oak Chef, David), Activity (growing Chives by Harvest of the Field), Special Entertainment (DJ Bob Musall with Music by Musall's)! We will be having a Special Tuesday Market on October 9th, 4 pm - 7 pm to coincide with S.O.M.A.'s We Love Our Downtown Celebration. Don't forget to come see us at the Saturday Monticello Farmers Market on 6th Street at the amazing Rugie's Dugout from 9 am - 1 pm.
The 2018 season has begun. We now have had two 2018 Saturday Markets and 1 Tuesday Market under our belts. You have got to check out our new vendors folks. Monon Meat Packing: Beef, Pork, Chicken, Veal and Frozen Pies, Small Batch Honey Farm: locally harvested honey and The Farmer's Table: baked goods, canned soup and local produce. You can still find your past favorites as well, Clawson's Sugar Bush: locally harvested Maple Syrup, Black Water Farms: flowers and locally grown produce, H&N Farms: farm fresh eggs, flowers and locally grown produce, D's Deals: locally grown produce, Harvest of the Fields: locally grown produce, baked goods, jams, preserves and create your own Fairy Gardens and Musall's Fresh Produce: Fair Oaks cheese, jams, jellies, preserves, vegetable plants, herbs and locally grown produce. If you missed Tuesday's POP Club Opening, you missed this: a live flash mob by the Twin Lakes Show Choir, live food demo by Marcia Kyburz (Fresh Broccoli Salad and Kale/Strawberry/Banana/Pineapple/Watermelon Smoothies), D's Deals held the 2 Bite Club with Rhubarb samples and Musall's Fresh Produce handed out FREE tomato plants to every POP Club Kid. Several kids took the Altheir Challenge and came back with their scavenger hunt feathers. We had over 40 kids sign up for POP Club and there is always room for more. Stay tuned for all of the upcoming POP Club Events. We have an awesome season planned! Remember eat fresh, eat local.
Are you a previous Monticello Market Vendor or are you a new vendor seeking out Market information? If you answered yes to either, then mark your calendar for the 2018 Pre-Market Vendor Meeting on Monday May 7th, 6:30 pm, at the White County Extension Office in Reynolds, IN. You won't want to miss this meeting. You will meet the Market Master, the White County Farmers Market Board of Directors, the POP Club Directors, other vendors, WIC office employees and Health Dept employees. We will be talking about SNAP Redemption, WIC vouchers and Rredemption, and Tuesday night POP Club and how it can benefit you the vendor. Plus, this is the evening you can ask all the questions you need, about becoming a Vendor. We can't wait to start the 2018 Farmers Market Season, who knows you may be the next new face at the market. Until then, eat fresh...eat local...
Spring is coming and with it Market will be starting back up again! Many of the vendors have already started their seedlings and are anxiously awaiting them to grow and the air and ground temperatures to warm up for planting. Market will begin Saturday May 19th with Tuesday Evening Market and POP Club beginning May 29th. If you are a vendor or a new vendor keep on the lookout for our Pre Market Vendor Meeting. This meeting will be held around the beginning of May. Do you have questions? Please feel free to contact myself Tracy Musall - Davidson (Market Master) at 574-583-8080, or the White County Extension Office 219-984-5115. Remember eat fresh, eat local.
If you missed Tuesday's POP Club End of Season Bash and The National Farmers Week Celebration then you missed out. With 236 visitors at Tuesday's Market, our vendors were ecstatic! Our guest Chef stirred up Gazpacho, Zucchini Spaghetti and Watermelon Juice. White Memorial Hospital passed out bicycle helmets, Music by Musall's played some awesome tunes. We gave out extra POP Club Bucks and $3.00 Market Vouchers. School may be back in season and Tuesday Market may be closed, but Saturday Market is still running strong! We had 213 visitors at the past Saturday Market. Also, POP Club Kids remember you can still receive your POP Club Bucks at either Musall's Lawn & Garden M-F 9am - 5pm or at the Saturday's Market until October 28th. |
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