Beet Box CSA and Market Ally

Start Date: ASAP
End Date:8/29/2011 or ongoing
Hours Per Week: 15-20 hours
Type: Stipended and unstipended positions available
Days: Must be available Saturday 8-4pm, Mondays, other days are flexible

Description:
This position is geared to support the expansion of a clinic-based farmers market and associated equitable BEET BOX CSA (weekly produce box) in the North Oakland Flats. Applicants will learn about community and clinic-based farmers’ markets, setting up food hubs and creating alternative produce distribution models. Applicants must be self-organized and extremely independent to work in this n on-hierarchal organization. This position has elements of community outreach/organizing, customer service, marketing, and manual labor. More information can be found at www.phatbeetsproduce.org/beet-box

Requirements:
• basic math skills
• ability to work in diverse environment with children and families
• a passion for social change
• ability to lift 25lbs
• outgoing
• self-motivated
• ability to speak to strangers and make “cold calls” to local businesses and organizations
• ability to prepare simple cooking demos
• must be able to ride a bicycle with a provided bike cart or have your own automobile

Responsibilities:
• Help set-up and take down Saturday Farmers’ Market
• Help set up, pack, deliver and take down Beet Box packing area at the market
• Table in-front of a medical clinic on a weekly basis
• Create and implement interactive educational activities to used at the market and in the community
• Table at events, in front of grocery stores, and at other farmers’ markets to promote the BEET BOX equitable CSA.

If you are interested in this position:
Please send your resume to rupani.seema@gmail.com , cc: max@phatbeetsproduce.org. Please include a short letter of interest
and answer the question: “What does food justice mean to you?”

Phat Beets Produce is a food justice collective. The collective was started in the North Oakland Flatland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a North Oakland park. We now support two certified, clinic based farmers’ markets, two youth-led school farm stands and community nutrition hubs, and a youth market garden in partnership with a local hospital obesity prevention program. As a collective, we strive to connect small farmers and farmers of color to urban communities.