{"id":16412,"date":"2020-05-05T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=16412"},"modified":"2020-05-05T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:56:12","slug":"brick-farmers-market-to-open-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/05\/brick-farmers-market-to-open-may-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Farmers&#8217; Market to Open May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10819\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10819\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"The Brick Farmers Market (File Photo)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o-681x452.jpg 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Brick Farmers Market (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick officials announced Tuesday that the township\u2019s Farmers\u2019 Market would open May 16, but with strict rules in place for both vendors and customers to prevent the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to announce that the Farmers\u2019 Market will be open to give our residents the opportunity to purchase fresh produce and other items from local businesses,\u201d said Mayor John Ducey. \u201cMuch like other many others aspects of daily life, we had to adapt the Farmers\u2019 Market to make it as safe as possible. But having the market open will provide some sense of progress and normalcy which is a positive thing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Brick Farmers\u2019 Market will be open from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. every Saturday from May 16 to Sept. 19 at Windward Beach Park. Until further notice, the following rules are in place for the Farmers\u2019 Market and will be strictly adhered to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All vendors must wear masks and gloves<\/li>\n<li>All customers must wear masks and observe social distancing guidelines<\/li>\n<li>Customers will line up on Challenger Way spaced a minimum of 6ft apart until admitted to the market<\/li>\n<li>Foot traffic will proceed in one direction<\/li>\n<li>All booths must be staffed by a minimum of two people with one person handling payments<\/li>\n<li>No self-service for customers; all handling of produce and items must be done by vendors<\/li>\n<li>Samples of produce items will be displayed for customers while produce is in secure area<\/li>\n<li>No samples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is our expectation that people visiting the Farmers\u2019 Market will understand the necessity of the rules we have put in place and will observe them,\u201d said Mayor Ducey. \u201cThese rules are in place to protect them and the vendors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of May 5, 40 vendors have signed up for the 2020 Farmers\u2019 Market. Not all vendors will be at the Market every week. A list of all vendors can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricktownship.net\/index.php\/brick-farmers-market\/\">on this page of the township\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/05\/brick-farmers-market-to-open-may-16\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick officials announced Tuesday that the township\u2019s Farmers\u2019 Market would open May 16, but with strict rules in place for both vendors and customers to prevent the spread of coronavirus. \u201cWe are excited to announce that the Farmers\u2019 Market will be open to give our residents the opportunity to purchase fresh produce and other items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[2025,24,3950],"class_list":["post-16412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-farmers-market","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-summer-2020"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17834967_1276723612381344_8432340031568595570_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4gI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}