Farmingdale
Craft & Gift Fair
On the Village Green
Saturday & Sunday June 28-29
10am-5pm each day
With reasonably good weather 65-75 vendors and 3,000 shoppers.
Each fair has a limited amount of vendor spaces available for rent.
Prepaying is the only way to guarantee that space will be available for you when you arrive to sell.
Click here to prepay through our Vendor Application.
VENDOR RENTAL RATES
Artists, crafters, gift curators, farm stands, prepackaged food items exclusively for home consumption, individually operated independent service providers, and elected officials
$110 total rent for each space each day.
Food Vendors
Selling from stands.
$225 for each space each day.
Food trucks
Sorry, We are not permitted to rent space to food trucks for this event.
As a rule we try to limit competitiion for each food vendor's main menu item.
Food vendors are encouraged to include their entire menu on their application.
If there are concerns about certain items we will contact you to discuss.
Service Providers
$250 total rent for each space each day.
This refers to providers with more than a small handful of employees.
Examples are companies offering insurance, home improvement and related products, communications, real estate, health care, etc, who may or may not be affiliated with larger regional, national or international organizations.
When you successfully submit a Vendor Application an auto generated email will be sent to you with instructions on what to do next.If this email does not appear in your inbox check your spam folder.
To avoid delays when you check in, please bring the confirming email showing the fairs you have paid for and the amount you paid.
If space is availabel on the day of a fair, vendors may pay by cash or Zelle.
Charities
We offer space to charities for no rental fee.
By our definition, a charity does not have paid employees.
A charity is run excusively by volunteers.
Charitable organizations are welcome to email us their request for free space shop@nassaucountyfairs.com.
If we accommodate the request here are the requirements~
No items are offered for sale.
No donations are solicited or accepted.
Your booth is open for all advertised hours.
The free space is limited to literature and signage to create awareness, education, and involvement for your organization.
You must comply with all vendor set up and break down requirements.
Under no circumstances are individuals or groups permitted to distribute literature without our express permission.
Directions
GPS 361 Main St, Farmingdale, NY 11735
VENDOR RULES
When you set up in the morning do not place your items to the left or right of your space because you might be in another vendor's space and you might be liable for paying for the additional space.
During the selling day please be respectful and considerate of your neighboring vendors by keeping all items within the confines of your space.
Placing merchandise, signage, or chairs outside your 10'x10' space is unacceptable.
Vendors who leave early must carry or wheel their items to their vehicles.
Vendors are prohibited from calling out to shoppers and from walking through the fair to distribute literature or attract shoppers to their booth.
Vendors may only greet shoppers who approach their booth
VENDOR SET UP DETAILS
Set up time on Saturday and Sunday starting at 7am and continues throughout the morning hours.
The vendor lineup starts at 361 Main Street.
After you have unloaded, please proceed as soon as possible to park your vehicle in the Municipal Lot #4 at Wesche Drive and Cherry Street by the school.
This is the only place where vendors may legally park.
By order of the Village of Farmingdale, vendors and their employees who park in any other Municipal Lot or on any street are subject to being towed at their expense and barred from participation in future fairs on the Village Green.
Do not park on Main Street at any time except to unload or load when you arrive and leave.
If Main Street becomes too congested in the morning or at the end of the day vendors may be directed to 5 Rose Lane to unload or load.
Do not park on Rose Lane at any other time.
Do not use the Rose Lane entrance unless directed by our staff.
Vendors may not unload directly at their space because Farmingdale will not allow vehicles on the Village Green.
Vendors should be prepared to carry or cart their items from their vehicle to their space. The distance could be anywhere from 10'100' from your vehicle to your space.
In most cases we do not pre-assign vendor spaces.
Space is assigned when you arrive based on availibility and your acceptance of the space.
A yellow or green vested staff member will greet you and direct you to available space.
If you cannot find a staff member when you arrive to set up, please ask any vendor where they can be found or call us at 516-442-6000 because we might be anywhere on the grounds helping other vendors.
Do not set up on your own.
Set up only under the direction of a staff member.
Vendors set up on grassy lawn.
Vendor spaces vary in size from 3'x6 to 10'x10'.
Vendors may set up their own 10x10 canopy a 10x10 space.
Each space may or may not have some additional area to display wares.
Vendors are responsible for supplying their own fixtures, tables, tent.
Electric is not available.
Vendors and their helpers must park in the nearby designated vendor parking lot When we assign your space, we will let you know where you and your help must park.
Vendors may leave their tent and tables overnight, but under no circumstances leave merchandise overnight.
Vendors renting in advance for both days must leave tables and or tent frame in their space on Saturday night in order to guarantee having the same location for Sunday.
On windy days for public safety vendors setting up a portable tent must have at least 18lbs of weight on each leg of the tent.
Vendors who sell quality items that are displayed on a bare table only diminish the look overall appearance of the fair.
For your own good we strongly recommend covering your tables with a quality material.
Trade show top quality 6' fitted floor length black machine washable table covers are sold by show management for $20 while supplies last.
Vendors are responsible for removing any and all garbage, debris, boxes, etc. from their space and taking them away from the Fair grounds.