High Season is here, but this year it is hardly business as usual. We thought we’d be preparing to celebrate 45 years of Keepin’ it Fresh and the return of our four-day a week schedule, but instead, we find ourselves busy managing our response to a fast-evolving crisis.

We remain committed to facilitating access to healthy food, and our current plan is to stay open every Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. through April. We will not be open on Thursdays and Fridays until further notice. We will continue to evaluate the situation to determine the schedule going into late Spring and Summer and keep everyone updated. We will also regularly communicate with the Thurston County Public Health and Social Services Department to maintain the safest environment possible for our community to access healthy food.

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In order to keep us all safe, we have made many changes to how we operate:

• We will be monitoring crowd size and enforcing social distancing and measures to avoid crowd gathering.
• We have spread our vendors out to give as much distance as possible between vendors.
• An additional hand washing sink has been made available to customers inside the Market building that has hot and cold running water, soap and paper towels and signage about COVID-19.
• Two hand sanitizing stations have been added with a total of four hand sanitizer dispensers.
• Only “grocery-type” vendors are permitted to sell including the sale of food items, plant starts, fruit trees and flowers. Crafters are not allowed to sell at the Market at this time (except for the sale of soap.)
• Restaurants are only offering take-out food. On-site consumption is not permitted.

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