Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) announces that Opening Day for the 43rd season of the Baltimore Farmers’ Market & Bazaar has been scheduled for Sunday, June 14, 2020, from 7 am to 12 pm. Originally scheduled to open on Sunday, April 5, the market was postponed in response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) crisis. The postponement has allowed for careful adaptation of the market to adhere to distancing recommendations and enforced restrictions.

BOPA is committed to providing an adapted market season that is healthy and safe for attendees, participants, volunteers, and staff. The season is scheduled to run weekly on Sundays through December 20, 2020, with continuous adaptation to the evolving situation. The Baltimore Farmers’ Market & Bazaar, located underneath the Jones Falls Expressway (JFX) at Holliday and Saratoga Streets, takes place rain or shine.

In this first phase of reopening, the market will operate solely as an essential food source with a reduced number of vendors providing food and alcohol only.

Please read below for important operational and layout changes to the market. BOPA will continue to adapt to the market throughout the season as needed.

Starting Sunday, August 30, we're adding hot food vendors to the market. The newly added vendors are Beef Barons, Ekiben, El Taco Loco, Konscious Katerers and El Sabrosito. Some of these new vendors will be setting up and operating on Holliday Street. Although they will be operating outside of the gated section of the market, masks are still required to receive service and customers are encouraged visit the hot food vendors as the last stop of their market trip.

Operational Changes

General Changes

• Parking validation for Mercy Bunting Garage is not required for the two-hour free parking period.
• Additional handwashing and sanitizer stations are available throughout the market footprint.
• No maps or takeaways are available at the Welcome Tent.
• There are no scheduled First Sunday events.
• There will be no cooking classes or cooking demos.
• There will be no activations from market sponsors.

Vendor Changes

• Limited to essential vendors, subject to change (see some of the participating vendors HERE)
  • Farms producing food
  • Bakeries
  • Ready-to-go food prepared off-site
  • Alcohol
• Required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): cloth face covering.
• No sampling of food allowed.
• New vending locations, subject to change week by week.
• Reduce/eliminate cell phone use during preparation and during market practices, or use alcohol-based wipes to disinfect cell phones (CDC Advice).
• Separate and specific employees available for taking money (cashless and signature free, preferably).
• Vendors to bring their own portable hand washing station, if possible.
• Pre-packaged available as much as possible.
• Pre-orders taken as often as possible.

Customer Changes

• Visitor capacity will be limited and subject to change.
• Required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): cloth face covering.
• No groups larger than 4.
• Maintain 6 feet of social distance.
• No eating at market, no lingering.
• No rifling through produce bins.
• As always, no pets or smoking.
• We encourage only 1 household member to shop, if possible.
• We encourage customers to limit cell phone handling at the market to reduce cross-contamination (source).
• Cashless transactions, if possible.

Market Layout

• A 10’X10’ empty space will be reserved between all vendor stalls.
• One-way directional flow of the market loop (clockwise), with floor markings to indicate direction.
• Prohibited entrances:
  • Saratoga Street
  • Fallsway
  • Gay Street
• Holliday Street and Holliday St. Island will be utilized for customer queue with floor markings for 6-foot distancing.
• No restaurant pick-up is available behind the diner.
   

Market Map (Updated 8/27/2020)
 

List of Market Vendors

Alternative Access

While only a limited number of essential vendors will be available on Opening Day, many businesses remain open and accessible from the comfort and safety of home. The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts has compiled a list of resources for alternative access to the farms and vendors that currently offer pickup, delivery, and shipping options. 

Farms
Food
Bazaar
Farmer to Face 

Baltimore Farmer's Market & Bazaar Recipe Book
In acknowledgment of what should have been Opening Day for the 43rd season of the Baltimore Farmers Market & Bazaar, the team at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts has assembled some of their favorite seasonal and farm-to-table meals that can be created straight from a market or farm. As we each stay home to remain healthy, we hope this recipe book offers a hopeful vision of a Sunday, soon to come, spent together under the JFX.

Recipe Book
 

The Baltimore Farmer's Market & Bazaar, Maryland's largest producer-only market, offers an assortment of fruits, vegetables, dairy, meats and seafood, bread and home garden plants, in additions to bath and body products, clothing, fashion accessories, home furnishings, Maryland souvenirs and original works of art. Sunday throughout the season also include live music and cooking demonstrations. This season's fill list of vendors is available here. BOPA looks forward to welcoming attendees to the 43rd season as soon as possible.