12th season featuring local artisans include culinary, textile, jewelry, wood, artists & crafters, curiosities, Local Author’s Nook, live variety show, fresh produce and lots of great, fresh food. Each week is a different theme focused on island living and local charities. **Please expand and read this entire section**
This show is on select Sundays in season, 10 am to 2 pm in the parking lot at the Wildlife Center/Indigenous Park. To participate you must live and create in the Keys/Homestead area with some exceptions made for items not locally available. Please familiarize yourself with the new qualifications and categories to ensure what you want to do complies.
If you have questions about something you want to sell or are unsure of your category, please discuss it with us. We will make adjustments and exceptions in some cases.
Vendor Types:
We have five application categories for vendors:
1. Curated Collections (CC)
“Curated Collections” (CC) vendors must live in the Florida Keys 25% of the year (3 months).
A “Curated Collection” represents a carefully selected and presented array of items pertaining to a specific theme. Each piece in the collection must be of the best quality. Items mass produced for resale or trinkets do not qualify.
The items may not compete with any LHM or LB vendor. CC vendors absolutely may not sell jewelry, candles and certain other products, represented by LHM.
CC merchandise may be manufactured commercially but not produced locally. No product in the collection may be handmade as this competes with LHM vendors who are present at the show.
CC vendors must display the origin of their products and they may not misrepresent the product’s origin or manufacture.
Curated Collections vendors will be evaluated based on a number of criteria including added value to the market, competition with handmade, display and merchandising, price point, origin, quality and availability of the same items elsewhere. CC vendors are not guaranteed acceptance into the show.
CC may not send surrogates or employees to work the booth unless accompanied by the Curator.
All items for sale must be in the category applied for and listed in the application. Any additional items must be approved by Daily Plan-it. Example: If you apply as curated Nautical items, you may not sell leather items.
2. Local Brand (LB)
“Local Brand” (LB) vendors must live and design in the Florida Keys at least 25% of the year (3 months).
Local Brand vendors must demonstrate originality and a general FL Keys theme or connection using original art designed by the person in the booth.
LB vendors may carry a wide variety of curated merchandise (ie: apparel, stickers, koozies, etc.) which may be manufactured commercially or crafted in house, but every item must be of the best quality and packaging.
LB vendors may be asked to demonstrate or show their original designs
All items for sale must be in the category applied for and listed in the application. Any additional items must be approved by Daily Plan-it. Example: If you apply in the Active Wear category, you may not sell jewelry.
LB may not send surrogates or employees to work the booth unless accompanied by the owner of the brand.
3. Local Hand Made (LHM):
“Local Hand Made” (LHM) vendors live and create in the Florida Keys at least 25% of the year (3 months).
LHM vendors are artists and craftspeople that make original work by hand. Printing of original work is permitted so long as it’s represented as such and is only a portion of the entire collection.
Significant alteration of any commercial components used in the work is required.
LHM vendors may be asked to explain their process and demonstrate how they create their items.
All items for sale must be in the category applied for and listed in the application. Any additional items must be approved by Daily Plan-it. Example: If you apply in the Ceramic category, you may not sell paintings.
LHM may not sell anything in their booth that is NOT hand made by the Artist themselves. Only one artist work may be represented per booth unless the art is a collective effort.
Artists shall be present in their booth and identified as the artist; they may not send a representative to sell for them though they may have assistants.
4. Food Made Onsite (FMO)
“Food Made Onsite” (FMO) vendors must live in the Florida Keys 25% of the year (3 months). If there are no Keys-local food vendors offering a specific product the Market deems desirable, applications from vendors in Homestead and the Redlands will be considered.
FMO vendors may prep food offsite, but it must be cooked onsite at the event.
All menu items for sale must be listed in the application. Any additional items must be approved by Daily Plan-it. Example: If your main item is Ceviche, you may not sell burgers.
5. Pre-Packaged Food (PPF)
“Pre-Packaged Food” (PPF) vendors must live in the Florida Keys 34% of the year (4 months). If there are no Keys-local food vendors selling the same item(s), applications from vendors on the mainland will be considered.
PPF food must be prepared and packaged offsite by the vendor.
All menu items for sale must be listed in the application. Any additional items must be approved by Daily Plan-it. Example: If your main item is Nuts, you may not sell cookies.
Vendor Category Descriptions:
Vendors may apply for one main category and if applicable, one subcategory.
Apparel: Clothing including shirts, dresses, skirts, pants, beachwear etc.
Candle: Scented or unscented, soy or wax, poured or molded
Ceramic/Clay: Original clay and porcelain work, functional or sculptural.
Curated Collection: Pieces carefully selected and brought together an assemblage of items that speak to a specific topic. Not handmade.
Health & Wellness: Handmade soaps, lip balms, lotions, serums, rubs, tinctures, etc
Fiber/Textile: Includes wearable and non-wearable. No machine-tooled, machine-screen printing, or other forms of mass production in this category.
Food: All culinary items made on or offsite
Glass: Functional and sculptural work. Kiln forming, blowing, molding, casting, stained glass, chimes.
Jewelry: Metal, glass, clay, fiber, paper, plastic or other materials. No commercial casts, molds or production studio work is allowed. No basic ‘beading’. All jewelry, regardless of medium, must be submitted in this category
Metal: Sculptural or decorative work made from metal. Metal jewelry must be submitted in the jewelry category.
Mixed Media: Work which combines materials from two or more mediums in one piece.
Natural materials: This includes handmade items from natural materials including basket weaving, chair caning, brooms, gourds, musical instruments and other works made from materials found in nature.
Original Art: Drawings, paintings and other mediums or combinations that result in a one-of-a-kind piece. Giclee’s and prints as well as reproductions on commercially produced items are acceptable if this represents less than 50% of what is sold in the booth.
Other: Something that is not included in this list. Please call organizers to discuss before selecting this category.
Photography: Includes traditional film photography, hand-colored images, emulsion transfers, and digital photography. Only the artist’s original source material is acceptable.
Sculpture: Three-dimensional work using additive or subtractive processes in a single medium.
Wood: Original works that are hand tooled, machine-worked, turned or carved.
General Requirements
Generally, jewelry and candles are exclusive and may only be sold by vendors accepted in that specific category. These are highly desirable categories and the number of applications accepted will be limited and may be rotated to ensure a good show balance.
Participants must live and create in the Keys at least three months a year. Only exceptions may be made for food vendors not represented otherwise. However, if a local food vendor applies at any time during the process, the out of Keys vendor will be bumped.
It is a show requirement that all vendors/artists must display pricing of everything for sale in the booth.
