REACHING OUT TO SHARERS
Coordinate and manage website for required field work hours for sharers.
Sharers will be utilizing an existing website (mysignup.com) for signing
up to work in the fields for their required commitment. Coordinator will
field questions and maintain web page.
Transcribe and keep track of sharers' required work hours
from the clipboards at the farm and put into excel file. Twice a year,
mid-season and near the end of the season. Prepare a poster board grid
to let sharers know where they stand with their required work hours.
EVENTS
Spring Festival:
Help coordinate overall festival and various aspects described below.
Physical Set-up: Organize pot luck, set up tables , chairs, etc
Clean up after event is over
Entertainment: Organize and oversee all aspect of entertainment at festival:
contact participants, organize timing, determine needs of space and materials,
and support the process.
Harvest Festival:
Help coordinate overall festival, work with board member(s) and facilitate
various aspects listed below.
Physical Set-up: Organize pot luck, set up tables , chairs, etc
Clean up after event is over
Entertainment: Organize and oversee all aspect of entertainment at festival:
contact participants, organize timing, determine needs of space and materials,
and support the process.
Are you interested in working on any additional events during the season
such as the Pitchfork Brigade or an elegant tea fundraiser? Any additional
suggestions for events you would be interested in volunteering for?
Tastings
Organize and facilitate regular "tastings" of current produce
harvested. (on pick up days, could include any currently harvested produce,
herbs, flowers)
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES:
Being part of a committee that oversees and orchestrates children's
activities on pick up days, possible Saturdays and during Festivals
Are you interested in helping with children's activities on a particular
day and time?
Help brainstorm and organize activities with the "committee"?
Help to provide snack?
PICK UP DAY ACTIVITES:
Help provide new sharer assistance on pick up days in the beginning
of the season
Do you have a special farm-related skill you could offer to teach or
share on a pick up day?( canning, food preservation, basketry, creating
with flowers, herb preparations, anything???)
Interested in working in Penelope's garden and working to integrate
it more into farm education?
NEWSLETTER
Are you interested in:
Writing bios of farm workers/board members or conduct interviews and
write them up?
Writing on farm and environment related topics?
Covering special farm events?
Creative writing, poetry, stories, artwork?
Submitting recipes for food and/or creating your own personal care
products?
Sharing current events or interesting internet links that could be
posted?
PHOTOGRAPHY
Interested in taking photographs? (newsletter, following the growth
cycle of plants, artistic photography, covering special events at the
farm
MARKETING
Are you willing to use your marketing background to help with a marketing
campaign for our flowers?
Do you have design skills and want to help with the marketing of our
flowers?
Creating signage for the farm stand and in the fields
FOOD DONATION COORDINATION
Either late on pick up days, or early the morning after pick up days:
weigh, record and load leftover vegetables, deliver them to 3 shelters
(1 day a week, both days alternating weeks, or one day alternating weeks).
Car needed.
Locating and creating relationships with other donation sources for
extra produce, especially at the end of the season.
CLERICAL/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE
General office work
Bulk Mailing
Phone Calls
Data Entry
SITE MANAGEMENT
Trade skills, carpentry, electrical, plumbing (circle one)
Landscaping: mowing, special garden care
Brush and tree removal
Help manage Burn Day in April
FIELD WORK (beyond required work hours)
Regular field work
Willing to be called for emergency work
Helping on harvest mornings