Alpharetta Farmers Market Moves Back To Town Green Saturday

ALPHARETTA, GA — The Alpharetta Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday with a number of safety protocols in place to address social distancing and other heightened public health guidelines. The market has been operating in a different, smaller location since mid-May.

The market will now be back on the Town Green in front of City Hall. This is the same location as last year at City Center on North and South Broad Streets.

“The Alpharetta Business Association has done a good job of implementing health and safety guidelines associated with reducing the spread of COVID-19. Allowing the farmers market to return to Downtown provides a bigger footprint that will improve their ability to promote social distancing and the other guidelines set by the governor,” said Morgan Rodgers, Alpharetta’s Director of Recreation, Parks, and Cultural Services, which handles permitting of events in the city.

The permit issued for the event allows for a maximum of 75 vendors for each weekly event, 25 fewer vendors than in past years, while expanding the area that the event occupies. This will result in a minimum of 11-feet of open area between each vendor tent. Tents will be on both sides of the roads and will be in alternating spaces to ensure adequate room for customer lines. Pedestrian flow along the streets will be one-way to further improve social distancing space.

COVID-19 precautions remain in place, including:

• All vendors and event volunteers are required to wear masks
• Strongly encourage customers to bring and wear their own masks.
• Hand sanitizer stations at multiple locations within the event footprint
• Directional marks in place to help regulate one-way pedestrian flow
• Adhere to social distancing 6-feet apart from vendors and non-family members.
• Chalk markers will be placed at each booth to mark social distancing for customer lines at each vendor booth

“The safety measures the ABA has in place will be very familiar to anyone who has been in a grocery store in the last few months,” said Rodgers. “Because of those, the Alpharetta Farmers Market will be fully compliant with the current state-wide orders issued by Governor Kemp and the guidelines set out by the CDC and other public health agencies.”