Find a MarketThe 2025 Washington Farmers Market Conference welcomes you to learn from farmers market peers, partners, and other professionals to build your operational toolkit, organizational skills, and technical know-how. Most of all, build your community and realize your market goals!
This conference is for farmers market organizers — staff, volunteers, board members, vendors, community partners — whether this is your first season or your fifteenth. We welcome everyone working to bring good food and local farms into communities of every size and every corner of the Pacific Northwest. This coming together of experience and energy is just what you need to launch your season with fresh vitality!
February 21-22, 2025
100 Washington Ave, Bremerton, WA 98337 (map)
(360) 377-3785
info@kitsapconferencecenter.com
kitsapconferencecenter.com
We’re excited to see you at the Kitsap Conference Center in Bremerton, WA! We’ll be in the heart of the Puget Sound, easy to get to by ferry or car. Enjoy the Harborside Fountain Park and maritime views.
Registration
🎟️ Registration is via Eventbrite $275 for General Admittance and $225 for WSFMA Member Farmers Markets. Registration for all tickets closes on February 14.
Click Here to Register
Workshops! click here
Learn from pros and peers at 15 different workshops covering a wide range of timely topics: vendor fees and scheduling, permits like the Cottage Food Program, deciding about prepared foods and food trucks, food access program updates and how to, marketing for your market, nonprofit boards, budgeting, advocacy, and more! Each workshop is designed so that you leave with more tools and resources to carry with you all season.
Information Booth Learning Lab
Back by popular demand, visit the interactive Information Booth Learning Lab so you can talk shop with other markets, see other Info Booth set ups, and share your favorite hacks.
Conference Schedule
🗎 General Schedule for the 2025 WSFMA Conference
🗎 Workshop Schedule
🥕 Thursday, February 20. 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- Early registration
- Informal networking, games & fun
- Learn MarketWurks’ New Features with Chris Quinlan!
🥕 Friday, February 21. Full day.
- Trade Show & Exhibitors eager to talk with you
- Warm welcome with James Weaver of the Port of Bremerton
- Workshops digging into critical themes and vital “how-to” topics
- Wrap up with farmer Louisa Brown of Pumphouse Farm
- Evening Reception & Silent Auction from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
🥕 Saturday, February 22. Half day.
- WSFMA Annual Meeting
- Workshops with practical experience and tools to apply to your market this season
- Closing Plenary
Conference Lodging
We have WSFMA room blocks at two hotels. Both hotels are within walking distance of the Kitsap Conference Center. The Hampton Inn is closer. The Fairfield Inn & Suites has rooms available at the “government rate.”
The WSFMA room rate for both hotels is $134.00 per night through Friday, January 31.
- Please use booking links below. After January 31, room rate and availability are not guaranteed.
- You can also call the hotel. Please select 0, not “Group Sales or “Registration,” so you get someone on site who will be better able to help you with the group rate.
- For the Fairfield, enter the dates you want and then it will show availability. If you want to come before the Conference or stay afterwards, you can get the Conference room rate by calling the Fairfield directly.
- For state employees, the “Government Rate” lodging rate is available at the Fairfield Inn & Suites only.
- Rooms may be canceled as long as it is 48 hours in advance.
🥕 Fairfield Inn & Suites Seattle/Bremerton
239 4th St, Bremerton WA 98337 (map)
(360) 377-2111, Press 0 (not Group Sales or Reservations)
Booking Link: Group Link for WSFMA Conference Fairfield Inn Please enter dates and then it will show availability.
Booking Link: Government Rate for WSFMA Conference Fairfield Inn
🥕 Hampton Inn & Suites FULL
150 Washington Ave, Bremerton WA 98337 (map)
(360) 405-0200, Press 0 (not Group Sales or Reservations)
Booking Link: Group Link for WSFMA Conference Hampton Inn
Group code: CHHFMA
Getting to Bremerton
The Bremerton Ferry Terminal and Foot Ferry Dock are within walking distance of the Kitsap Conference Center. There are two ferry options:
1) Kitsap Transit’s walk-on “Fast Ferry” (or “foot ferry”) crossing takes 30 minutes from Downtown Seattle. There are frequent ferries to choose from and some schedules connect with bus routes. Vehicles are not allowed on the Fast Ferry. For the most up-to-date schedule and additional information, please click here. Full fare is $2.00.
2) The Washington State DOT ferry is a 60-minute ferry ride from Downtown Seattle and allows vehicles. For the most up-to-date ferry schedule departing Seattle to the Bremerton Ferry Terminal and additional information, please click here.
Kitsap Conference Center is 32.8 miles away from the SeaTac airport via I-5 and Hwy 16.
Link to Visit Kitsap Peninsula
🥕 Questions? Please email info[at]wafarmersmarkets[dot]org or call us at (206) 706-5198.
🗎 Downloadable flyer for the 2025 WSFMA Conference.