Farmers’ Market at Poplar Grove • Guidelines for Non-Farm Craft

The following guidelines are set forth to determine whether a proposed craft is eligible to be sold at the Farmers’ Market at Poplar Grove.  All non-farm crafts will be juried.  To be juried, applicants must submit 3 photographs or crafts items representative of the crafts to be sold. 

Crafts, for the purpose of the Farmers’ Market at Poplar Grove shall be: an item which an observer of the craft can appreciate the technique and execution of the employment of manual skills in the craft’s production.

            Non-farm crafts are produced from materials not grown or harvested by the crafts person.

Farm crafts are value added farm product produced predominately from materials grown or harvested by the farmer.  These crafts cannot constitute more than a quarter of the product sold by the farmer.  These crafts do not have to be juried; however they must meet all guidelines contained herein.

Specific Criteria  

1. All crafts must be hand crafted by the vendor or a member of the vendor’s farm or craft business.
   
   
2. Crafts must be the product of a home or cottage type industry using an intermediate type technology rather than an industrial type production.  To be considered “hand crafted”, the item must show evidence of manual skills obtainable only through a significant period of experience and dedication.

 Examples of unacceptable items would be, but not limited to: tracings of paint by number, postcards, prints, printed materials, ceramics or pottery from commercial molds, wood carvings using duplicating machines, kits in any form and any other items which clearly do not reflect originality of design.

    3.    No mechanical, optical, digital or electronic reproductions will be allowed, (with the exception of photography).

   4.    All crafts must be of excellent workmanship both in quality and design.

   5.     All crafts vendors must comply with and abide by the Farmers’ Market at Poplar Grove Rules & Regulations.

   6.     The Poplar Grove market manager has the discretion to immediately remove any craft item that is
           considered objectionable.