COVENTRY FARMERS’ MARKET AT HALE HOMESTEAD
2016 COMMUNITY TENT APPLICATION
The Coventry Farmers’ Market at Hale Homestead is not only about food, it’s about community!
The Market’s Community Tents are intended to showcase non-profit and charity organizations that work
to make our region a better place. Our goal is to provide these groups with a no cost opportunity to
promote the organization’s mission and to meet and greet our market-goers in an educational and
engaging way.
The Community Tent application process is open to any nonprofit organization whose mission has local
relevance and is consistent with the mission and rules of the Coventry Farmers’ Market at Hale
Homestead, as determined by the Market Operating Committee.
Here are the Market’s Community Tent guidelines:
1. The Market will provide organizations with a 10’x10’ tent space, one 6’ table and two chairs. Tents
must be properly tethered and secured so as to ensure safety in the event of wind gusts.
2. Each organization must abide by the general Market rules, which are distributed at the time of
application approval. Set up must be completed by 10:30am and break down begins at 2:00pm. Please
note that we are a rain-or-shine market and unless the weather is extreme, participation is expected
even if the weather is imperfect.
3. Each organization is responsible for providing a family-friendly, professional sign and/or banner that
clearly identifies the group and for bringing a table covering. Participants are encouraged to display
materials in a tasteful, creative, eye catching manner. Interactive experiences for market goers and
families are strongly encouraged. The Market retains the right to regulate the activities, displays, signs,
posters, banners and other expressions of the interests represented.
4. The Community Tent is intended to be a venue for sharing information about the featured
organization and not a venue for selling products. Resale of items may be permitted when approved by
the Market Operating Committee, when the items are not competing with any vendor products and are
related to or in support of participating organizations for fundraising purposes. Groups may accept
donations on site, and offer information about ways to support the organization off site or online. Raffle
ticket and food item sales are not permitted.
5. Community tent activities must take place within the assigned tent space and not within the
walkways of the market field, e.g. walking through the market handing out information. No surveys,
petitions, or music at any booth unless approved in advance by the Market Operating Committee.
6. Children under age 16 must be supervised at all times.
7. Participants must clean up their booth area at the end of the market.
The Farmers’ Market receives a large volume of requests for the community tent and regretfully cannot
accommodate all requests. The market cannot endorse the opinions or positions of any group or
individual and respectfully prohibits all political groups or organizations from participation in the
Community Tent program.
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