• One Fair Volunteer T-shirt
• Fair Admission for the day you work
• One meal at the Common Kitchen for each shift you work
• Camping privileges – tent site (one night per shift, either the night before or the night after your shift)

• One Fair Admission for each shift (max. three days admission)
• One meal at the Common Kitchen for each shift you work
• One extra night of camping per shift

• Meals:
  • The meals provided for Fair staff and volunteers are prepared in the Common Kitchen by volunteers with ingredients generously donated by MOFGA members and supporters. Over the course of Fair set-up and Fair weekend through clean-up, thousands of meals are served.
  • You must have a meal ticket in order to enter the Common Kitchen dining area for a meal.
  • Meal ticket(s) are distributed by Area Coordinators to volunteers upon completion of each shift. Be sure to remember to get your meal ticket after your shift.
  • Meal Times: Continental Breakfast 6:30 – 9:00 | Full Breakfast 7:00 – 8:30 | Lunch 12:30 – 2:00 | Supper 6:00 – 7:30

• Sunday Shifts:
  • Volunteers who work at least one shift on SUNDAY are eligible for a raffle of items donated by Fair vendors held  after the Fair on Sunday evening. Inquire with the Volunteer Check-In Tent for details.
• Overnight & Parking Shifts:
  • The 7-hour Overnight Safety Patrol shift counts as two 4-hour shifts.
• Volunteer T-Shirts:
  • All volunteers at the Fair receive one of our classic organic cotton Fair t-shirts. If you are working multiple shifts you will be able to redeem your shirt voucher during or after your first shift. These shirts are custom sewn for the Common Ground Country Fair by Liberty Graphics and are made in the USA with 100% domestically grown organic cotton.

Camping:

• • Volunteers working 4 or more hours are invited to camp at the fairgrounds. Your Volunteer Confirmation, which will be sent via email if you sign up online or via mail if you do not have access to a computer, for each shift is required as proof of your eligibility to camp. You may use your earned night of camping either the night before or the night after your shift. Sites will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis by the camping coordinators. Space permitting, volunteer camping is available in the South Volunteer and Exhibitor Camping area. There are no water or electricity hook-ups for RVs.
  • RV Lottery: We can only accommodate 3 RVs. Spaces are limited to exhibitors, planning team members, staff and volunteers who will be onsite September 22-25th. Volunteers are only eligible if they have preregistered for three 4-hour shifts. All RV owners must be able to drive and park their own unit to be eligible. The RV Lottery is active from September 1st through September 15th. (Check back here then!)  Please see the Camping & Accommodations page for local options.
  • All campers must abide by the following Camping Rules:
    1. All sites do not have running water or electricity.
    2. All campers must sign up for a camping spot by using the online Camping Preregistration Form (check back here for the link in August 2023.)
    3. Campers must camp in the designated camping areas. There is no camping allowed in the parking lots.
    4. Campers may not engage in illegal activity on the Fairgrounds or MOFGA grounds.
    5. Pets are absolutely forbidden on Fairgrounds and in the camping areas at all times.
    6. No unauthorized campfires.
    7. Cooking is only allowed in the designated areas with 1 lb propane or butane cylinders. No solid fuel may be used without permission of the Fair Office. Any participant using cooking equipment must have an appropriate fire extinguisher with them. The approved Designated Cooking areas are in South Camping, between the North Coordinator Camping and the Bike area, near the Rabbit Barn area, and in the Livestock area near the Maintenance shop. These areas are designated by signage.
    8. To minimize impact, campers must stay on marked paths in the North and West Coordinator Camping areas.
    9. Use port-a-potties or the Common Thrones in the camping areas. Do not go to the bathroom in the woods.
    10. Quiet time is from 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m.
    11. Volunteers not actively volunteering between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. must stay off the Fairgrounds.
    12. Common Ground Country Fair assumes no responsibility for lost or stolen items.
    13. Members of the CGCF Safety Team are authorized to ask volunteers for identification in the form of their volunteer shift registration. Safety Team members represent the CGCF and MOFGA in determining whether certain persons and/or their conduct is permitted to be on the Fairgrounds. Any person not abiding by established Fair guidelines may be asked to leave the fairgrounds by the Safety Coordinator in charge, the Fair Director or a Waldo County Deputy.
    14. Campers must take gray water to the Compost and Recycling area.
    15. Generators may not be used unless specifically permitted in camping areas rules & guidelines.
    16. Please carry out what you carry in. Thanks!

Review or download the 2022 Camping Information, Policy, and Rules and the Fairground Camping Overview Map