Ottawa makes this stuff all year.

Anyone in Ottawa and the surrounding region who makes, cooks, plays or teaches the thing themselves. A family kitchen, a one-person studio, a dance troupe, a Saturday school, a small business with a storefront. Wholesale stock bought in to resell stays off these shelves.

Nothing. No listing fee, no commission, no charge for a better position in the catalogue. Money never passes through this site, so there is nothing to take a percentage of. Any change to that is published here first, with a date, and every listed seller is told in writing before it applies.

Every listing names a culture the work belongs to, and that name is what links the shelf to the encyclopedia. A maker whose work belongs to this city rather than to one community names Ottawa, and the listing sits under the same rules as any other.

Two separate doors. The market is the catalogue that runs all year and costs nothing. A stall on the field in August is a vendor application with its own terms, its own fee and its own deadlines — that door is Join · Vendors. Plenty of people will walk through both.

Photographs that belong to somebody else, a description that describes a different object, food sold outside the rules Ontario applies to selling food, counterfeit goods, political campaigning, anything sold on a doorstep that a moderator would have to defend. A removal comes with the reason in writing and a way to answer it.

In stage one the two of you do, and this page says so before you start. We moderate what is listed here. Enquiries move inside the participant account in stage two, and we begin answering disputes at that point because we will have the record to answer from.

Spring 2027, the same season the festival programme goes up. The sellers who write to us before then are the queue it is built from, and they get their shopfront drafted first.