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# What Is a Producer-Only Farmers Market?

Market Spotlight 

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A producer-only farmers market requires every vendor to sell only what they grew, raised, or made themselves. A market that is not producer-only allows at least some resale, meaning a vendor may bring in product from another farm or a supplier and sell it at their booth. Both kinds operate in Dallas-Fort Worth, and several markets that shoppers assume are the first kind have published rules saying they are the second.

\## What the rule says when a market has one

The clearest example we found is Cowtown Farmers Market in White Settlement, which states it three ways on three pages. Its vendor page reads: "Cowtown Farmers Market members are farmers, ranchers and artisans who grow, raise and produce their goods within 150 miles of our location. All of our vendors are well-vetted - we do not allow any re-selling." Its homepage adds, "No re-selling allowed at our market at all."

Good Local Markets, the nonprofit behind [White Rock](/markets/white-rock-farmers-market), [Tietze Park](/markets/tietze-park-farmers-market) and [Fair Park](/markets/fair-park-farmers-market), writes one policy covering all three of its markets: "Our farmers markets are producer-only which means that all the farmers at our market actually are local farmers who come from a 150 mile radius of the market. We do not allow resellers or distributors at our market." It also states that "our staff visits each farm to ensure they are growing what they are selling at the market."

[Saint Michael's Farmers Market](/markets/saint-michaels-farmers-market) in Dallas states the substance without using the phrase: "We require 100% of our vendors' goods to be homegrown or homemade. Distributors of products from another business or supplier may not be vendors. Products must come from within 150 miles of Dallas County."

[Coppell Farmers Market](/markets/coppell-farmers-market) is the most detailed version. Its guidelines say all products "must be grown, raised, and produced directly by the vendor," within 150 miles, and then write out the narrow exception: items not produced by the vendor may be sold only if "the source's name and contact information are fully disclosed to the CFM and signage is posted at the vendor stall indicating the source." Coppell also publishes an enforcement step, stating that a vendor suspected of reselling unapproved items "will be subject to an on-farm audit."

[Denton Community Market](/markets/denton-community-market) calls itself "a producer-only art and farmer's market" in one homepage sentence and publishes no rules document, so there is no way to see what the rule excludes there.

\## What it looks like when resale is allowed

This is where the assumption most often breaks. The [McKinney Farmers Market at Chestnut Square](/markets/mckinney-farmers-market-at-chestnut-sq) publishes Rules of Operation stating that "at least 60% of farm-raised products sold must be homegrown within a 150-mile radius of McKinney," and that "up to 40% of farm-raised products may be acquired (purchased, traded, or co-op) from other local farms (within the 150-mile radius of McKinney, TX), as long as the participating farm name and location is disclosed with signage at the booth." A separate rule bars wholesalers outright: "Commercial wholesale produce will not be allowed under any circumstances."

That is a real standard, and a defensible one. It is simply not producer-only, and the market says so itself in writing.

[Frisco Rotary Farmers Market](/markets/frisco-rotary-farmers-market) is similar and equally direct: "Farmers, ranchers and artisan producers may sell produce, meat and other products from other sources, but the product must come straight from the farm or location where it is made."

[Keller Farmers Market](/markets/keller-farmers-market) uses a labeling rule instead of a grower rule. Its vendor handbook requires all products to be "grown or produced within the geographic boundaries of the State of Texas," and requires that any product "not grown or produced by the vendor themselves must be labeled with the name and location of the source farmer or producer," with a fifty dollar fee for failing to disclose. [Saginaw Farmers Market at Switchyard](/markets/saginaw-farmers-market-at-switchyard) publishes the same handbook language, even though its homepage reads much stricter: "We only allow produce that is grown within a 150-mile radius." When a homepage and a handbook disagree, the handbook is the rule.

\## The radius is a separate question

Producer-only tells you who grew it. The sourcing radius tells you how far away. Most of the markets above use 150 miles. Keller and Saginaw's handbook language allows anywhere in Texas. [Dallas Farmers Market](/markets/dallas-farmers-market-the-shed) describes "farmers from within 400 miles away" and makes no producer-only claim at all for The Shed. A market can be strict on one axis and loose on the other.

\## How to check any market yourself

Read the vendor rules or handbook, not the homepage. Marketing copy and the numbered rule disagree often enough that only the rule counts. Look for a percentage, a mileage figure, and a disclosure requirement. If the rules require booth signage naming an outside farm, look for that sign when you shop. Then ask the person behind the table where a specific item was grown. At a genuinely producer-only market that question has an easy answer.

\## What nobody can tell you

Of the twenty-two DFW markets we researched first-hand, nine publish nothing at all about sourcing, including some of the largest. That silence is not a no. It means the policy is unpublished, and the only way to learn it is to ask at the market.

Days, hours and seasons for every market we track are in the [directory](/markets).

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