Freeport Art Craft & Gift Fair

10am-5pm

On the Nautical Mile

At Sea Breeze Park   

The Nautical Mile

Come early and spend the day.

The Nautical Mile is alive throughut the day offering amenities to the many visitors in attendance. 

Fine dining, deserts, live entertainment, and family attractions are plentiful. 

Sea Breeze Park

Sea Breeze Park is a five-acre clean and manicured grassy oasis located at the foot of The Nautical Mile with beautiful unobstructed views of the surrounding canal and bay.

There is a built-in customer base because Sapphire Yacht Charters offers group trips throughout the day where passangers must walk through the fair when departing and returning.

Additionally, Captain Lou's Fleet and Freeport Water Taxi offer trips throughout the day from the Nautical Mile, all passing directly by the Fair.

The onsite building offer clean bathrooms.

A Nautical Mile Business Organization Event (NMBO).

Prepaying is the only way to guarantee that space will be available for you when you arrive to sell.

With reasonably good weather up to 100 vendors. 

Each fair has a limited amount of vendor spaces available for rent.

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 Vendor spaces are not available for this event.

All food and beverage are provided by nearby Nautical Mile Restaurants.  

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 Online 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 11 Richmond Street, Freeport

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.

Vendors in the front row have a sidealk in front of them. 

You are welcome to place your items on the sidewalk directly in front of your space when you unload.

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 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

Vendor line up starts at 7am on Richmond Street directly in front of the fair. 

Please join the vendor line and be patient while we check in each vendor and direct them to our field staff to be led to their space.

You can greatly help by simply unloading your tent, tables, and all other items into your space and moving your vehicle to the designated vendor parking lot as soon as possible.

Your cooperation will go a long way to minimizing congestion and making the process faster for those behind you in the line.

Vendor setup continues throughout the morning hours.

After parking in the designated vendor parking lot you may return to your booth to set up your displays and tent.

The vendor parking lot is just steps away and accessible throughout the day.

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.

Do not set up on your own. 

Our green/yellow vested staff members will greet you and direct you to available space. 

If you cannot find a staff member, please ask any vendor where they can be found.

Most vendor spaces are 10' wide x15' deep.

Corner Vendor spaces are 10'x10'.

There is room for vendors to set up a 10'x10' tent in their space and at least 3 six-foot tables in a U-shape.

Vendors are responsible for supplying their own fixtures, tables, tent.

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 their look and lower the overall appearance of the Market. 

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.