What you need to know about today’s opening of our no-touch, three-section market
The Oceanside Morning Farmers Market is reopening today, May 21, as a no-touch market in Downtown Oceanside. Operating as an essential service under the San Diego County public health order, MainStreet Oceanside’s farmers market will now have three socially distanced sections from Ditmar Street to Tremont Street on Pier View Way, with two sections on the east side of North Coast Highway and one section on the west side of Coast Highway (see the map below).
Following local and state guidelines, the reopened Oceanside Farmers Market will implement these additional changes to ensure the safety and well-being of attendees and vendors:
•Limit each of the market’s new sections to 50 people.
•Sell produce and prepackaged food only.
•Enforce social distancing.
•Have hand-washing stations throughout.
•Require all vendors to have a hand-washing station, wear masks and gloves, and handle your food for you.
To keep our farmers market open, please follow these market rules:
DO NOT:
•Enter if you have a cough or a fever.
•Shake hands or engage in any unnecessary physical contact.
• Bring pets. They are not allowed.
• Ask to try food. Food sampling is not allowed.
DO:
• Wear a mask. A face covering is required for everyone.
• Follow directions from the market docents. They are helping us keep the market safe and open.
• Engage in no-touch shopping. Please point to the items you want to purchase, and the vendors will bag your produce and products for you.
• Utilize cashless payments. Vendors will have signs indicating what forms of payment they accept, including Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay and credit cards.
• Practice social distancing. Please ensure you are staying a minimum of 6 feet from other people. We will be enforcing this requirement.
• Get what you want and head home. We welcome you to the market and encourage you to get what you need and then head home so others can use the market.
• Wash your hands.
