20th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour
ORGANIZATION: Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
Please visit the new page to apply.
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association hosts several regional farm tours, and this year the Piedmont farm tour has 40 amazing, local sustainable family farms on the tour. We need volunteers to help us show off the incredible work these local food growers are doing in our communities!
The Farm tour is from 2-6pm on Saturday and Sunday April 25th and 26th. We ask that volunteers show up at their farm at 1:30 and stay until 6 PM. We will send you full instructions before the tour happens.
Volunteers typically help us at each farm to staff a registration table. This is where people check in and get oriented. Doing this frees up the the farmer to do walking tours and show people around. Each volunteer receives a free, limited edition tour t-shirt crafted by Linda Fullwood at Weaver Street Market and are put on our Volunteer VIP List to receive a free button at the registration desk when they tour the other day with a carload of people.
To sign up, simply go to our VolunteerSpot link and check out the available farms: http://vols.pt/y3j2Ur . Please note that if you want to sign up with a friend/spouse/partner, etc you are not limited just to the farms that say they have two spaces available. When you click to sign up, any open space will have a "bring a friend option" and you can list your 2nd volunteer’s information and t-shirt size then.More opportunities with Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
Location:
PO Box 448, Pittsboro, NC 27312, US
Mission Statement
Grow local and organic! We are a farmer-driven, membership-based organization that advocates for fair farm and food policies, builds the systems that organic family farms need to thrive, and educates communities about local, organic farming.
We're on a mission to bring local, organic food to your table from a farmer who shares your values. Our vision is a vibrant, sustainable food system that is good for consumers, good for farmers and farm workers, and good for the land.
Description
Founded in 1979, we are the oldest and largest sustainable agriculture organization in the Southeast. For over three decades, we have successfully united farmers, consumers and businesses to build a just, healthy food and farming future.
OUR MISSIONWe help people in the Carolinas grow and eat local, organic food by advocating for fair farm and food policies, building the systems that organic family farms need to thrive, and educating communities about local, organic farming.
OUR VISIONCreate a regional food system that is good for consumers, good for farmers and farmworkers, and good for the land.
OUR VALUESAs an organization:
- We champion a food system that is secure and stable.
- We respect the role of the farmer, processor, distributor and consumer in the system.
- We support efforts to provide consumers healthy, safe, quality food. These efforts include:
- promoting organic standards,
- preserving non-genetically modified seeds and heritage breeds and
- recovering locally-adapted breeds and seeds.
- We revere our natural resources and are responsible for protecting these resources for future generations.
- We believe providing resources for the producer, purchaser and policymaker encourages accountability from the field to the fork.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Various Orange, Chatham, Durham, & Alamance FarmsCarrboro, NC 27312
DATE POSTED
April 16, 2015
SKILLS
- Customer Service
- Farming
- Community Outreach
- Gardening
- Horticulture
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- 1:30 - 6 p.m.
- Must be able to drive yourself to the farm of your choice, and stay for the duration of the tour