Open Market

All sales transactions at Farmer’s Market Online are strictly between the vendor and the customer. We do not process or monitor sales activity.
Most Booths offer several avenues for orders:
* PayPal direct payment links. We set these up for vendors who have PayPal accounts and want shoppers to be able to make purchases direct from the [...]

Vendors at Farmer’s Market Online communicate with and make sales to shoppers directly. We require no sales reports and charge no commissions. Consequently, we have no sales figures to offer, or comparisons to share regarding the marketability of one product over another.
Each Booth is limited to one featured product (and all available flavors or varieties), [...]

While we do not sell advertising for specific content pages linked from our Bulletin Board like the one on How to Start Farming or the Multiple Uses for Fruitcake posted on Farm Fresh!, we welcome listings for home-made, handcrafted and farm raised goods on the Buy Direct Directory as well as our Booths.
Advertising for resale [...]

We’ve been operating online continuously since 1995 and have grown from a dozen subscribers to an email newsletter to more than 1 million annual visitors to our website in 2008.
Our primary “partners” are the 200 or so vendors who lease Booth space and Buy Direct Directory Listings at Farmer’s Market Online.
We are also open to [...]

New products and vendors are promoted through our Open Market blog and our Twitter page.
Booths may also be linked, where appropriate, to pages on the Open Air Farmers Markets Directory and the Buy Direct Directory.
They may also be linked, indirectly by their featured products, to many of the content pages on the Bulletin Board and [...]

We recently started including photo links to products featured at Farmer’s Market Online in each state or province on directory pages like the California Farmers Markets Directory
and the individual market profile pages link the one for the Encino Farmers Market.
These links are provided at no extra charge to help promote our vendors’ products and the [...]

Yes. If you want to start accepting credit cards, we recommend opening a PayPal merchant account. There’s no setup fee or credit check. All you need is a current checking account into which deposits can be made. As purchases are made, PayPal deducts its commission and puts the rest in your account, which you can [...]

Over the past 12 months, Farmer’s Market Online has entertained 809,783 unique visitors (an average of about 2,236 unique visitors per day), with 2,553,975 “page hits” recorded. That averages out to 3.15 pages per visit.
We occasionally post reports on market traffic on the Open Market blog under the title “Farmer’s Market Online Today.” More frequent [...]

Each Booth space is leased in a particular section of the market (Meat, Handmade Crafts, Farm Supplies etc.) and each Booth is designed to feature one generic product and varieties thereof. This restriction is meant to make it easier for shoppers to go directly to the products they are looking for, and to get each [...]

We are associates of Amazon.com and feature links to selected products on their site. On product pages where we have no active Booth vendor Amazon.com product links may be featured in the middle of the page.
We do this in order to keep the page open and a selection of products available to shoppers. We endeavor, [...]