About the Market – Orono Farmers' Market

Basic Documents

Market By Laws
Market Rules, revised Jan. 2012.
Market Application in printable pdf format. New applicants will also need to download and read the Market Rules & By-Laws (previous two items) to understand how the market works and what is expected of market members.
New Applicant Orientation Page where we give some advice on applying and attending the market and on being a good market member.
Tent Anchors – A page reviewing the ways we employ to hold down our canopies.
Notes on tying down your tent
Item Eligibility List. A work in progress of a document to define what the production criteria should be for food being sold at the market. A discussion about the purpose of this list can be found in the Item Eligibility Preamble.

Minutes of the General Meetings

MARKET SURVEYS

Survey results from Orono Farmers’ Market Survey, 1995, by UMaine. This survey was done when the market was just two years old, at a time there were few baked goods, meats or dairy items available. [pdf 653Kb]
Survey results from 2011 Orono Farmers’ Market survey. Requests to take the survey were in the market newsletter and on our new Facebook page.
Survey results from Dec-2015: comments left by survey respondents.
Survey results from Jan-2020 Survey.

MARKET BROCHURES

OTHER DOCUMENTS

Reserving meeting space
Market Policies
Orono-Veazie Garden And Cooking Club
Jobs Holders. Who has what jobs in the Orono Farmers’ Market, updated for 2007; more revisions to come.
Job Descriptions. A work in progress, where we’ll attempt to describe in detail
what each of the Jobs at the Orono Farmer’s Market entails.
Farm Check sheet. (in pdf format for printing) For use during farm check visits.
Also available as an editable and printable spreadsheet .
Market Assets. What does the market own?
End-of-Market Gleaning video taken at the market on a Tuesday afternoon in September 2012..
Market Signs – A page reviewing many of the signs our members use at market.
Our Bumper sticker Green on Yellow. (image file — colors approximate).
Crop Calendar. Shows when crops are in season. Also accessible from Orono Farmers’ Market home page.
And see how the Saco Farmers’ Market does a similar thing here.
Overhead views of . . .
- Downtown Orono showing Mill St
- Asa Adams parking lot that includes the Downtown parking lot for size comparison.
- Steam Plant Parking Lot at maps.google.com
Winter Market Pix – In the Mill Street Parking Lot, 18-March-2006.
Here is a Treasurer’s Report Template [pdf] from www.MFFM.org.
Promotion ideas: Saco Farmers Market has reproduced Russell Libby’s “Spend $10 a week on local food” commentary here.