Looking for Your Next Booth? We Built Booth Season to Connect Vendors With Events That Need Them

Every vendor knows the routine. A craft fair two towns over is looking for vendors, but the post went up in a Facebook group three weeks ago and the deadline passed yesterday. Meanwhile an organizer is staring at a map with six empty spots the week before the event, wondering where all the soap makers and food trucks went.

To fix both sides of that problem, we built Booth Season, a new website that does one job: it shows vendors which events have open booths, and it helps event organizers fill them.

Image: Booth Season.

Every Open Booth, the Fee and the Deadline

Booth Season lists markets, craft fairs, festivals, holiday markets, pop-ups and race-day vendor villages that are actively looking for vendors. Each listing answers the questions a vendor asks first: the date, the booth fee, the application deadline and how to apply. Listings are checked by hand before they go up.

Vendors can search by area, filter by deadline, or tap "show booths near me" to see what is close by. As of this week the site lists 31 open vendor calls across eight areas, including Ocala, Gainesville, the Nature Coast, Orlando, Tampa and St. Petersburg in Florida, plus Nashville, Tennessee, and St. George, Utah. Close to home, that includes the weekly Ocala Downtown Market and the vendor village at the Ocala Reindeer Run on Dec. 12.

Free for Vendors, Free for Organizers

Browsing Booth Season costs nothing. Vendors can also sign up for a free weekly email every Thursday with new events in their area, deadlines coming up in the next two weeks and one featured booth.

Organizers can list their event for free. The form asks for the basics vendors need: dates, venue, booth fee and size, whether the event is juried, which kinds of vendors are wanted (food trucks, handmade, art, boutique, farm and plants, services and more) and where to apply. Submissions are reviewed and usually published within two business days.

Getting More Eyes on Your Event

For organizers who want more applications, Booth Season offers Featured listings starting at $29 per event, and more advertising options are on the way. That is where the rest of our network comes in.

Only In Ocala reaches almost 1 million people every month, and our group of sister websites in other cities sees similar numbers. Booth Season was built to put vendor calls in front of those same local audiences, so an organizer in Ocala, Orlando or Nashville can reach vendors who actually live within driving distance.

Vendors who want to hear about new booths the moment they post can upgrade to Booth Season Pro, which sends text alerts and deadline reminders for $5 a month or $50 a year. The directory itself stays free.

Why We Started in Ocala

Booth Season started here. Marion County has a deep calendar of farmers markets, holiday bazaars, festivals and races, and many of the people who fill those booths are the same small businesses we cover on Only In Ocala every week. If you are a vendor, take a look at boothseason.com before you plan your next season. If you run an event that needs vendors, list it there, then add it to our Ocala events calendar so shoppers know to come out too.

Booth Season is owned by the same team that publishes Only In Ocala. Listing counts, prices and features are from boothseason.com, read Nov. 8, 2026.