Volunteer
Dedicated, engaged, and enthusiastic volunteers are key to our success at FRESHFARM. Volunteers play a number of roles at FRESHFARM including helping with our market operations, assisting with food access and education efforts, and adding to FRESHFARM’s spirit of community. Our work is centered around creating spaces for economic opportunity, food access, education, and celebration. Join us in helping to further FRESHFARM’s mission at our markets with the volunteer opportunities below.
Volunteer at the Market
Join us as a Market Volunteer! Many of our market volunteer opportunities require a regular commitment to serving weekly or monthly for the duration of a market season, but there are also short-term and single event volunteer opportunities available.
Visit the Markets Schedule to determine which market(s) works for you. Review the Markets Volunteer Handbook to learn more about FRESHFARM volunteer opportunities at market, and choose the volunteer position that best fits with your schedule, interest, and availability.
Please note that volunteering at markets involves working outdoors in the elements, some heavy lifting, friendly customer service, and representing FRESHFARM to the community. Comfortable clothes are recommended. We require volunteers to be 16 years of age or older. Please contact marketvolunteers@freshfarm.org with any questions.
Market Volunteer Opportunity – Fresh Food Drive
This holiday season, help our market food recovery partners feed those in need! Since 2010, FRESHFARM has hosted Thanksgiving Fresh Food Drives at our markets. Throughout November, we raise money from shoppers and community members to purchase fresh fruits, vegetables, and turkeys from our local farmers at market. This fresh market food is then given to the food recovery and emergency food assistance partner at each market and used to prepare Thanksgiving baskets or meals for neighbors in need.
We are in need of FRESH Food Drive Volunteers! Volunteers will help set up the apple cider station, hand out samples of warm apple cider, explain the purpose of the Fresh Food Drive, encourage online or cash donations, and help break down of the apple cider station at the end of the market.The Fresh Food Drive will take place at all FRESHFARM Markets and Farm Stands that are open in November. This is our largest volunteer event of the year, and it is a great way to get involved with FRESHFARM and our mission.
Sign up below to volunteer with FRESHFARM to receive the sign-up form and list of dates/locations! Shifts are available at multiple locations on Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday afternoons, Thursday mornings and afternoons, Saturday mornings, and Sunday mornings from November 1st to November 26th. Please email marketvolunteers@ffm.org with any questions about this opportunity.
If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out this interest form and we will reach out to you to match you with our volunteer needs.
Sign Up to volunteer at FRESHFARM Markets
Volunteer with FoodPrints
FoodPrints’ hands-on cooking, gardening, and environmental literacy lessons generally need helpers during the school day. Ideal volunteers can commit to coming every week for a 3-4-hour block.
If you are interested in learning more about FoodPrints volunteer opportunities, please complete this intake form.