Your Farmers Market Table Isn't the Only Place Customers Are Looking For You

You show up every Saturday. You set up the table, talk to people, sell out of your best stuff by noon. That part works.

Here's the part that doesn't: the other six days a week.

Someone tastes your jam at the market and wants to order more for a gift basket. Someone's neighbor mentions your name and they go looking for you online before they ever show up in person. Someone wants to know if you'll be at next week's market or the one across town.

What do they find?

If the answer is an Instagram page that hasn't been touched since last season, or nothing at all, you just lost that customer to whoever showed up first in a search.

The problem isn't your product. It's that you're invisible between market days.

A farmers market table is a physical location with limited hours, one or two days a week, seasonal. A website is open all the time. It answers the questions people have before they ever talk to you:

• What do you sell
• Which markets you're at and when
• How do I contact you or place an order
• Are you legit

Right now, a lot of vendors are relying on a Facebook page or nothing. That's leaving business on the table. Literally.

What a basic website actually needs to do

You don't need e-commerce. You don't need a blog that updates daily. You need:

• Your name, what you sell, and why someone should buy from you
• Where to find you (market schedule, locations, days, hours)
• A simple way to reach you or ask about custom orders
• Photos that look like your actual product, not stock photos

That's it. That's the whole job of the site. It's a digital storefront that's open when your physical one isn't.

Why this matters more for market vendors specifically

Your business is seasonal and schedule-dependent in a way most local businesses aren't. Customers need to know exactly when and where to find you, and that changes week to week or season to season. A website is the one place you control that answers that question no matter what day it is, and it's the difference between someone remembering you exist and someone forgetting by the time next Saturday rolls around.

What this costs

A basic site like this is free to build. No setup fee. A simple monthly plan to keep it running once it's live. No contract games, no upsell buried in the fine print.

If you sell at a farmers market around Fenton, Flint, Lansing, or Detroit and don't have a site that actually represents you, reach out. I'll build it and show you before you pay anything.

— Chad