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description: If you’re in charge of a farmers market or are a vendor, learn why you should have a portable sink at yours.
title: Why You Need Portable Sinks at Your Farmer’s Market
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# Why You Should Have Portable Sinks at Your Farmer’s Market
### By Ozark River Manufacturing
### May 30, 2025
### [Public Health and Safety](https://theportablesink.com/category/public-health-and-safety/)
Whether you coordinate and run your local farmers market or you’re a vendor, you’re probably concerned with the health, safety, and hygiene of everyone who attends your outdoor event. While sanitizer works in a pinch, it’s not as good as soap and water. But having a portable sink (or three) at the farmers market gives everyone access to safe, clean handwashing without plumbing.
## Comply With Hand Washing Sink Regulations for Farmer’s Markets
Many [states](https://theportablesink.com/state-handwashing-sink-regulations/) require farmers’ markets and other outdoor events to provide a hand washing station for staff and, in some cases, customers, especially if you provide free samples or conduct cooking demonstrations. A portable hand washing station helps you comply with these guidelines, ensuring you’ll meet any state and local health code requirements with ease.
## Better Than Hand Sanitizer
Even if you’re not required to provide a hand washing station, staff and customers appreciate a place to wash their hands with hot water and soap at outdoor events instead of relying on hand sanitizer.
For starters, washing your hands with soap and water is [more effective](https://theportablesink.com/hand-washing-versus-hand-sanitizer/) than using hand sanitizer. Staff may want to wash their hands to help prevent cross-contamination and customers may want to wash up before eating what you’re selling or after selecting their products.
In both cases, providing a portable sink for everyone allows them to clean their hands with a safe and effective method for killing germs.
## Helps Keep Your Stall Tidy
Finally, while you can’t — and shouldn’t — use a hand washing sink to wash anything but hands, you can have a portable sink that’s dedicated to cleaning dirty dishes, tools, or even to wipe down your supplies at the end of the day.
Depending on your setup and needs, you could have two portable sinks: one for washing hands and the other for washing supplies. Or, you could get a portable sink with two or even three basins if it meets state or local regulations.
## What Kind of Portable Sink Is Required at a Farmers Market?
When a portable sink or or portable handwashing station is required at a farmers market, they generally must have:
- Built-in water tanks: one for clean water and one for wastewater
- Provide hot and cold water
- A soap dispenser
- A paper towel dispenser
If you’re selling prepared foods or prepping foods and drinks onsite, your portable sink likely has to be NSF-certified and may even need a counter made of food-grade stainless steel.
[](https://theportablesink.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/portable-sink-farmers-market_19203581080.jpeg)
## What About Gravity Fed Hand Washing Stations?
Some farmer’s markets allow vendors to use gravity-fed hand wash stations. While this setup can meet state and local regulations and use soap and water instead of hand sanitizer, gravity-fed hand washing stations often aren’t as efficient or easy to set up as a portable sink.
For starters, most gravity-fed sinks don’t have to provide hot water and the ones that do can’t provide water as hot as a portable sink does. While both types of sinks can run out of water, refilling or replacing the clean water tank in a portable sink is often easier. Portable sinks usually have a covered wastewater tank, while gravity-fed sinks have an open container that’s easy to miss.
Finally, gravity-fed sinks are harder to operate compared to the faucet handles on a portable sink. Someone may need to use their elbows to engage the spigot or need someone to hold it down for them while washing. Portable sink faucets are generally easy to turn on and off with your hands, and some faucet handles are even ADA-compliant, making it easy to flip them on and off.
## Invest in Your Farmers Market
A portable sink may or may not be required at your farmers market, but having one either way demonstrates your commitment to safety, health, and hygiene. And Ozark River Manufacturing’s portable sinks check all the boxes. They’re NSF-certified, have fresh and wastewater tanks, built-in soap dispensers, and hot and cold running water. What’s more, our sinks arrive assembled and ready to go. All you have to do is plug it into a standard power source.
Check out our [full selection of portable sinks](https://theportablesink.com/shop/), or [contact us](https://theportablesink.com/contact/) today and learn more about how our portable sinks can help your business comply with health and safety standards without plumbing.
### Ozark River Manufacturing
Ozark River Manufacturing designs and delivers top-quality, NSF-certified portable sinks. Since 2006, our inventive and bold team has ensured health compliance with quick-connect tanks and instant hot water. With over 55 models, we provide solutions for every need, backed by exceptional customer support and timely delivery. Healthy people matter, and we make a positive impact every day.
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[Code Compliance](#Code-Compliance)
[Order Cancellations or Modifications](#Order-Cancellations-or-Modifications)
[Delivery](#Delivery)
[Damages and Replacements](#Damages-and-Replacements)
[After-the-Sale Support](#After-the-Sale-Support)
[Contact Information](#Contact-Information)
**Code Compliance**
We have designed our portable sinks to be compliant with most state and local handwashing codes. Please check with your local or state health official before purchasing this product if the intended use is handwashing compliance. Ozark River Manufacturing takes no responsibility for compliance to each and every code.
**Lead-Times**
Our goal is to get you your portable sink in the fastest, most economical method possible. All orders are shipped from our Assembly Plant in Murfreesboro, TN 37129 with a truck carrier (LTL) to the 48 contiguous states. Lead-times vary by product, are demand-driven, and are updated on the product detail pages. Large orders may increase lead-times. Expedited or shipping outside of the 48 contiguous states is also available and may incur additional costs. Please call [866.663.1982](tel:866-663-1982) for availability.
Order confirmations include estimated ship dates and are subject to change without notice.
**Order Cancellations or Modifications**
You can cancel or modify your order in writing before the product has shipped from our location. Cancelations may incur a 5% processing fee if paid by credit card. Please call [1.866.663.1982](tel:866-663-1982) or email us at [Orders@ozarkriver.com](mailto:Orders@ozarkriver.com).
Orders that have left our dock will incur a 30% restocking fee, as well as all incurring freight and/or damage charges. The customer is responsible for all damages, so please follow all provided return instructions carefully. Absolutely no changes or cancellations are allowed on custom or large orders.
**Delivery**
All of our portable sinks ship to you via a freight carrier or truck and you will be sent Receiving Instructions prior to your delivery. You are required to be at the location at the time of delivery or you may incur re-delivery costs from the freight carrier. Please make sure you have at least two people to lift and unpack the sink and put it into place where you want it. Drivers from the freight carriers are for delivery only and are not obligated to help with installation. You will have time to inspect your package. Please call 866.663.1982 if you have any concerns or questions about the delivery condition.
**Damages and Replacements**
Carefully inspect your delivery and follow all delivery details provided. If a carrier has damaged your product and the package is damaged, refuse the shipment and call us immediately at 866.663.1982. If you open your carton and see any damage to your product, call immediately and follow the instructions provided by our customer care agent. If you delay calling you may be responsible for the damaged product.
**After-the-Sale Support**
We manufacture Ozark River Portable Sinks to the highest quality standards, with repeatedly tested and reliable parts. Our sinks are unsinkable, but should you need it, we have trained technical support staff right here at our facility in the Greater Nashville Area to help you set your sink up, understand operation or maintenance, and keep your portable sink operational and your business or facility code compliant. Please refer to your Owner’s Manual.
**Disclaimer:** Models, styles, colors and availability may change without notice.
**Contact Information**
Office Hours: 8 am to 4:00 pm CST
Office: 1-615-203-3078
Toll Free: 1-866-663-1982
Email: Orders@ozarkriver.com
Web Address: www.OzarkRiver.com
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BETTER VISION
We believe that it is our personal responsibility to provide clean hands for people and business because, now more than ever, healthy people matter.
From restaurants and food service businesses that gain new convenience and opportunities as a result of our Ozark River Portable Sinks®, to educators and daycare centers that have healthier students and fewer absentees, to businesses that are now in hand wash code compliance due to implementing our portable sinks – lives our improved with every portable hand sink we manufacture.
We love what we do. We win together. We never give up. We don’t cut corners.
We have a vision with a clear focus – improve lives every day with a convenient solution for better personal hygiene, and the ability to comply with state and local hand wash codes – and we’ve maintained that focus since 2004.
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YOU ARE OUR PRIORITY
We love saving your day, and we are ‘all hands on deck’ when you need after-the-sale support.
If you’ve ever been cited by a health code inspector for hand-washing code violations, you know how it feels to be in hot water. When hand-washing compliance calls, we answer. And although our sinks are unsinkable, should you need support, we’re here with happy, helping hands.
Support remains at the top of our priority list. We’re here when you need us, and even when you don’t. Call the hotline for application, operation or general support. We’ll be standing by, ready to help with troubleshooting assistance; warranty parts and service; replacement parts and service.
Our sinks have only a .003% warranty replacement rate, which means a 99.7% success rate! Now, that’s a badass sink.
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AMAZING TEAM CULTURE
Happy, positive people make products that make other people happy. We’re serious about having fun at work. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously.
Ours is a team of highly inventive, bold individuals who happen to make portable sinks. We’re the best at what we do, and we know it.
Our culture prioritizes people and positivity because we know that when our team is joyful, we strive even harder to make you happy.
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INVENTIVE and BOLD
We invented a line of portable sinks that are well-made, delivered quickly, and installed in a snap. We build them ourselves because nobody else can do it like we do.
Our sinks comply with the rigorous NSF standards, which means that our products undergo relentless testing and our facilities are inspected unannounced. We don’t mind. In fact, we welcome the challenge to perform because we know that the standards are set for the protection of our customers.
Without the expense of plumbing, each customer gains the hygiene benefits of instant hot water with a portable sink.
Our attention to quality is as pure as the hot water we dispense. All of our portable sinks feature instant hot water technology and convenient quick connect tanks. With a variety of styles, sizes and finishes available, every Ozark River Sink is crafted to sturdy, attractive perfection.
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DISTRIBUTION
We respect your needs and your time. Once you decide to purchase your portable sink, you want to begin reaping the benefits of clean, healthy, happy hands as soon as possible!
Ozark River Manufacturing is uniquely positioned to reach customers and suppliers quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. We have shorter lead times than any competitor, \[simply say, short lead times?] and a robust distribution network, allowing us increased service capabilities for our customers.
Middle Tennessee’s central location connects us to customers faster; home to the busiest cargo airport in the western hemisphere, six Class 1 railroads, more than 1,000 miles of navigable waterways, and immediate access to eight interstate highways.
What do these nifty stats mean to you? It’s simple. We can reach 60 percent of the U.S. population within an 11-hour drive or less.
Bottom line? With reduced shipping times, you’ll enjoy better health and hygiene with your portable sink as soon as possible.
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IT’S ALL WE DO
Remember when someone told you NOT to “put all of your eggs in one basket”? Phooey!Do one thing and do it well. That is our absolute conviction.
Ozark River Manufacturing Co.® is the world’s foremost portable sink manufacturer because this is what we do. In fact, it’s all we do. We design, manufacture, and deliver the finest portable sinks available on the planet. And we proudly believe that is enough.
Hot water hand sinks provide a convenient solution to improve personal hygiene and to comply with state and local codes. Our everlasting commitment to provide a top-quality product that is essential to maximizing health and safety.
Life and business can be challenging. You have a long list of things to do. We are here to make hand washing compliance as easy as possible. Give us a call and check one thing off that list.
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