Information for Potential Vendors

The Edwards Farmers’ Market is currently accepting FULLTIME and PARTTIME vendor applications for Summer, 2008. To apply for FULLTIME status, submit the application found on this site. To apply for PARTTIME status, please contact us via an email to edwards@rockymountainmarkets.com, or call 970-479-1711.

Are you Looking for a great Farmers' Market to sell your Product(s)?

The Edwards Farmers' Market is in its fifth season and has firmly established itself as the locals’ market. Some of the finest farm and food vendors in Colorado already participate in the Edwards Market, but we’re looking for a few more such as:

Cheese
Seafood
Beef, Lamb Veal
Pies

If you’re interested and would like more information, please send an email to edwards@rockymountainmarkets.com with a description of the product(s) you would like to sell. Also, please include how you learned of the Edwards Farmers’ Market. THE EDWARDS FARMERS' MARKET DOES NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM CRAFT VENDORS.

To: Potential Vendors for the Edwards Farmers' Market

The Edwards Market is an old-fashioned farmers’ market, focusing on farm and food products. Craft vendors are not being accepted! Almost all of our customers are locals. They are health conscious and most are looking for fresh natural and/or organic products. Many customers are now doing their weekly food shopping at the Edwards Market and are leaving with 3-5 shopping bags full of the freshest and highest quality Colorado fruits, vegetables and gourmet foods. Parking is so convenient that some customers make multiple trips to their vehicles to deposit a case of juicy Palisade peaches or several bags of farm fresh vegetables and then return to make more purchases.

There is no deadline to submit application, but most of our vendors are returning from last year so there are only a few spaces available for new vendors. Once they’re gone, that’s it. Our policy is to increase product variety while trying to keep competition between vendors to a minimum. Several of our vendors reported that Edwards was their best revenue market. Our customer surveys demonstrated a growing loyalty to the Edwards market. Many new customers told us they were referred to the Edwards Market by their friends or neighbors, who were already regulars at our market. The Edwards market is the locals’ supermarket. Here locals can find freshly-made gourmet foods and tasty produce that was picked ripe just hours before instead of flavorless produce that was picked green weeks ago and shipped hundreds or thousands of miles.

For those unfamiliar with Edwards, it’s growing rapidly and is already the largest population center in Eagle County. It also has one of the highest household incomes in Colorado. The Edwards Market is located in Edwards Corner at the town’s major business intersection and has two hundred free onsite customer parking spaces. Residents from nearby Avon, Arrowhead, Bachelor Gulch, Beaver Creek, Cordillera, Eagle, Eagle-Vail, Gypsum, Minturn, Singletree and Vail have become regulars.

The market fee is $600 for a 10X10 tent space which works out to about $40 per day. There is no additional percentage fee and no town sales tax. We are also accepting a few part-time vendors. Email Edwards@rockymountainmarkets.com for information. The 2008 Edwards Farmers’ Market runs every Saturday from mid-June to mid- September (June 14 – Sept 13). The hours of operation are a comfortable 9:30am to 2:00pm.

The Edwards Market won't ever have a large number of tents because of its focus on food and tent space limitations; but at thirty plus tents, it’s not a small market either. Several current vendors say Edwards is their top revenue market. If you’re interested in joining a great locals’ market, please complete our application form and submit it with a $100 deposit for each tent space you want to reserve. If you’re accepted, your deposit becomes non-refundable and the remaining fee is due by April 1, 2008. If your application is not accepted, your deposit will be returned. Keep in mind that there are only a few spaces available for new vendors. For a fulltime application, please visit the Vendor Application page on this site. If you are interested in becoming a parttime vendor, email Edwards@rockymountainmarkets.com or call 970-479-1711 for more information.