About the Lawrence Farmers’ Market

Our Covid-19 Precautions for 2021

While most of our staff and vendors will be vaccinated and we are an open-air market, we will continue to adhere to KDHE and CDC guidelines for our 2021 market and wear masks, ask our customers to wear masks, and maintain social distancing. We are holding off on bringing back events, entertainment, and eating and drinking on site for right now. We will be reevaluating our guidelines regularly. For now, we kindly ask of you:

Do not enter the market if you have Covid-19 Symptoms
Cover your mouth and nose with a mask
It is recommended you leave your pets at home
Maintain social distancing
Use sanitizing stations
No consumption of food or beverages allowed on site

Our Mission

The mission of the Lawrence Farmers Market is to provide children and adults in the Lawrence, KS area, with locally grown foods and farm products. This will be accomplished by improving access to local, healthy, affordable food through a direct farm-to-consumer marketing venue that will serve diverse populations, including those of low income.

Other goals that the Lawrence Farmers Market strives to achieve are increased education and support of Lawrence-area agriculture. The Lawrence Farmers Market believes that small, local farms are essential to the local economy and is committed to making economic and educational connections between Lawrence-area residents and local farmers.

Our Vendors

LFM is a producer-based market. A vendor must directly produce the majority of items offered on land the vendor owns, leases, or sharecrops. A vendor may not purchase from wholesalers to resell at the Lawrence Farmers Market. All products must be grown or produced in Kansas, within 50 miles of Lawrence (the Board of Directors may, based on need, make exceptions to within 75 miles through a process of review and majority vote of the board).

Our Board of Directors

A Board of Directors manages the market under the LFM Bylaws. The Board is comprised of 6 Vendors, up to 3 Community representatives (elected by the market members), and 3 staff members (the Market Manager, Financial Officer, and Director of Development) as ex-officio (non-voting) members.

New Vendor Applications are accepted throughout the year and reviewed at the monthly Board meetings.

Our monthly Board Meetings are on the first Tuesday of every month from 6:30-8:30pm and open to the public.

Our meetings are currently done virtually on Zoom:

https://ksu.zoom.us/j/94292236808