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2024 MARKET CALENDAR
CLOSED / CERRADO / 市场关闭
Sat May 11: Castro Valley - Rodeo Parade
Sat May 11: Willow Glen - 5K Race
Sun May 19: Campbell - Art and Wine Faire
Sat June 8: TBD - Sunnyvale - Art and Wine Faire
Sun Oct 13: San Carlos - Art and Wine Faire
Sun Oct 22: Campbell - Oktober Fest
Fri Nov 29: Old Oakland - Native people’s Day
All market will remain OPEN during the 2024 Holiday Season.
Healthy Market Rules
As an essential service, the farmers, vendors, and staff at UVFM markets have taken great pride in continuing to serve our communities throughout Covid, storms, heat waves, and fires - adjusting daily to fine tune best practices by closely adhering to the safety policies put forth by the CDC, the CDPH, and Cal/OSHA.
NO PETS RULE:
We LOVE our pets too, but the California Department Of Health strictly forbids pets in any open food facility, including all farmers' markets and grocery stores. A working service animal that is specifically trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability is permitted. Emotional support animals are not recognized by the ADA and therefore are not exempt.
If your beloved fur-baby comes to the market, please plan to have one of its humans stay with them on the sidewalk behind our tents. This will ensure that our Farmers Market Association does not get in trouble, or fined, should a County Health Inspector be walking through the market.
Thank you for your cooperation!
MASK MANDATE UPDATE :
Masks are currently optional in our open air markets.
We ask that anyone experiencing a new fever, cough or stomach bug, or who may have come into recent contact with someone with symptoms, to remain at home and send someone else to do your shopping.
UVFM continues to request that everyone participate in friendly and organized queues; Please step off to the side for spontaneous conversations with friends in order to keep our aisles wide and prevent congested walkways.
WHY SHOP Farmers' Markets During A Pandemic
Is it our firm conviction that farmers markets are essential to community food security, and that shopping for food in farmers markets continues to be a safe and recommended choice.
NECESSITY: Purchasing fresh food is a non-optional activity that should not be made artificially scarce, when we are fortunate enough to have an abundance of local food available. Keeping farmers' markets open allows residents of the greater Bay Area a safer alternative to grocery stores, which are heavily overcrowded with people and running low on supplies.
TOUCH POINTS: Farmers' markets are transparent and traceable. Local food travels short distances, with extremely minimal handling from field to market. Most grocery stores (and online stores) source through vast and complex, national and international distribution chains, with more unmonitored human touch-points for potential contamination.
OPEN AIR: Farmers' markets lend themselves to social distancing and provide a clean and safe shopping experience. The outdoor, UV light and open-air setting offer optimal ventilation in an unconfined space, allowing for less transmission risk than a grocery store.
TIME: Farmers' Markets operate for a short 4-hour stretch, once a week, keeping it much more manageable to maintain frequent disinfecting and cleanliness throughout the entire duration of the event.
IMMUNE BOOSTING: The food available at Farmers Markets is more densely nutritious than largely industrialized sources (this is highly studied and documented). It is widely believed that immune responses are best served by the intake of fresh fruits, vegetables, and fungi harvested and eaten at the peak of their freshness.
LOCAL ECONOMY: With uncertainty in global markets, it’s more important than ever to protect local food and farm businesses for our collective food security.
AIR QUALITY • Fire Season
Un-check “Inside Sensors” and change “None” to “AQandU” in the conversion drop-down tab.
UVFM is constantly monitoring the AQI of our market locations using https://www.purpleair.com/map (using the AQandU correction setting recommended by the EPA)
It is highly recommended that customers attending markets in AQI conditions above 150, have an N95 without a valve (or with the valve taped over) to protect from both Smoke and Coronavirus
UVFM Market AQI Closure Guidelines
AQI: Unhealthy Range (150-200). Markets will remain open, however all staff are required to wear proper protective gear such as non-valved N95 masks - provided by their employer for anything above 150 AQI. For the safety of market workers, those staff without proper gear will not be allowed to continue working outside until the conditions clear up. This recommendation is strongly suggested to our customers.
AQI: Very Unhealthy Range (201-300). Vendors and sellers are at personal liberty, without penalty, to take absence or leave early.
AQI: Hazardous Range (301- 400). This range is grounds for possible shutdown of the entire market at the managers discretion. If possible, the market will remain staffed with a skeleton crew, with reduced hours, to assist the farmers who wish to stay, especially if the conditions are fluctuating in and out of range during the day.
Forcast or Onset of an AQI of 400+ requires an immediate mandatory shut down, do not come, or if already setup, everyone must leave for the safety of all. If this is called during a market, vehicles can enter early to pack up once customers have been cleared out.
AQI is in constant fluctuation and requires flexibility of judgement. Managers will survey conditions and may decide to close early, or to keep partially open with a reduced crew, for the vendors who wish to stay, should they feel the conditions are clearing up. In the case of remaining open, all sellers are free to decide for themselves to stay or leave at any time and can pack-out using a hand cart. If a manager makes the official call to close due to safety, it is required that all attendees pack up and vacate as is mandated by the Dept. of Agriculture and CalOsha.