Market Ready
Required Review Before Your First Market
Required Review Before Your First Market
A seasonal review to ensure every vendor is aligned with current market expectations, procedures, and standards.
Market Ready is required for all vendors each season before participating at Old Town Farm & Art Market. It brings together the information vendors need to understand how the market operates today and helps create a consistent, professional experience for vendors, customers, and staff.
Completion of Market Ready is required before your first market day.
Why Market Ready Exists
Over the years, we’ve learned a simple truth:
submitting an application is only the first step.
Market day success depends on understanding how the market operates today, not how it operated years ago, not how other markets operate, and not how we wish it operated.
Market Ready replaces scattered emails, long rule documents, and repetitive meetings with a simple, required review process that:
Clarifies current market-day procedures
Reduces confusion and last-minute issues
Protects vendors, customers, and the market
Saves time for everyone in the long run
This is not about adding more work.
It’s about simplifying how we all stay aligned.
Who Must Complete Market Ready?
Market Ready is required for:
All new vendors before their first market day
All returning vendors at the start of each season
Any vendor that receives a Warning Notice throughout the season
Vendors are responsible for ensuring that employees, family members, and representatives working for their business at the market also understand these expectations.
Market Ready is:
Clear and straightforward
Mobile-friendly and quick to complete. (Typically takes about 10 minutes)
Built from real market-day experience
Designed to support vendor success
Market Ready is not:
A test
A reflection of past performance
A lack of trust
It’s a shared commitment to professionalism as the market evolves.
Required Modules
Complete All Modules Below Before Your First Market
Each module is short, mobile-friendly, and designed to take just a few minutes to complete.
Please review each module carefully.
✅ Required Review Modules
Arrival times, setup, stall readiness, weather procedures, teardown, and on-site authority.
Professional behavior, prohibited conduct, appearance standards, and market culture.
Canopies, signage, safety, stall appearance, and weather preparedness.
Stall fees, tier pricing, attendance expectations, cancellations, and payment timing.
Final Step
After reviewing all required modules, complete the acknowledgement below to confirm completion.
Before participating in Old Town Farm & Art Market, vendors are required to review and understand the Market Ready materials.
By submitting this form, you are confirming that you have completed the required review material and agree to follow all Core Vendor Expectations, Market Day procedures, and Market Rules & Regulations.
Questions?
If you have questions after completing the required materials, please contact market management directly.
Thank You for Being Prepared
Prepared vendors strengthen the market.
Clear expectations protect everyone.
Professionalism makes Old Town Farm & Art Market the standard.