Work

From Foodcoop

This is a "co-op", and inexpensive, because we're all helping with the work rather than paying other people to do it for us. If you shop at the farmstand, please work once a month to keep it happening. There's no board of directors, paid staff, or other such nonsense, just regular people. There are a few, comfortable full-time jobs between us, but we share bits of them.

To sign up and help, come by the farmstand.

If you want to help at The Local, on the UC Berkeley campus, go to their workers' page and check them out.

[edit] Job descriptions

More involved guides are also available for these jobs.

Setup: Erect tents, display food and make pretty. Cart food from storage.

Pack up: Come before sunset and help rake, break down tents and tables, rebox veggies, cart to storage.

Transportation: Vegetables must be moved between farmer's markets, 'frigeration, and co-op markets.

Selling: Stand around and sell things. Pick over veggies, keep full and fresh. If you can do a new market day, let someone know.

Buying: Go to farmer's markets and root for vegetables. Invent new ways to get food. (Tuesday in Berkeley, 2PM and 6:30PM; Friday in Oakland, 2PM; Saturday in Berkeley and San Francisco, 2PM.)

Leftover distribution: Find people who cook, and bring the rest to the chickens. Root through the fridge.

Inventory: During days off or mornings, see what we have and what we need. Make price lists.

Lounging: Just come by, relax, and see what's happening.

Write: essays, pamphlets, make artwork.

[edit] Jobs Schedule

Monday: calls (8 AM)

Tuesday: Spiral Gardens farmstand (3-6 PM); buying (4:30-6 PM); carting (5-7PM)

Wednesday: The Local farmstand (11AM-3PM); buying in SF by BART (7-10AM); carting (10-11AM)

Thursday: Bus Stop farmstand (1-7PM); calls (8AM)

Friday: calls (8AM); buying in Oakland (1PM)

Saturday: Bus Stop farmstand (1-7PM); buying in SF (between 8AM and 2 PM)

Sunday: inventory