Come volunteer at Fresh2You Farmers Market - a mobile market bringing fresh produce to food deserts!

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Fresh2You Mobile Farmers' Market is looking for volunteers like you!

The Fresh2You Market is on a donated city bus retrofitted to have a food market inside! The Fresh2You Mobile Market makes fresh produce available to people who live in food deserts and in high need areas of Pulaski County. We especially like to target older adults and go to housing that is specified for this population. The mobile market welcomes SNAP recipients and accepts EBT cards; additionally, SNAP recipients receive double their purchase value in fresh produce. The Arkansas No Kid Hungry campaign’s Cooking Matters Team offers cooking demonstrations and recipes at each stop.

Some volunteer opportunities include:

• Assisting individuals with choosing the best produce
• Management of the market
• Driving the bus (proper license is required)
• Checking people out
• Assisting with Cooking Matters Demonstrations
• Assisting with SNAP Applications
• Assembling orders
• Dropping off orders

Individual and group volunteers are welcomed. So bring a friend or two and help us sell fresh produce! Volunteer opportunities are flexible based off of your schedule so do not feel as if you a required to work the full day commit to coming every Saturday or Tuesday. We are happy to work around your schedule!

Volunteer Role Descriptions Include:

1. CDL Driver
   1. This role would include someone who has a CDL license and is available to transport Fresh2You to our designated locations
   2. Be able to do a proper maintenance check of the bus to make sure everything is working properly before every run
   3. They will need to help unload produce in the mornings as well as unload items at night
   4. Help with shoppers on the bus
   5. Share our vision and passion for the bus and help customers inside the bus
2. Weigh Station
   1. This position requires people with basic math skills
   2. They will need to be able to weigh produce and total each checkout so that the cashier can ring them up properly
   3. This person should have a friendly and positive attitude and share our mission
   4. They could sign up for a specific spot or sign up to ride with us all day
3. Openers
   1. Need to meet the bus in the mornings at our designated loading spot
   2. Need to be able to lift 30lbs
   3. Help organize the produce
   4. Fill labels and prices with accurate names and descriptions
   5. Fill out A-frame for the day
   6. Inventory check in the morning
4. Closers
1. Need to meet the bus at the end of the day at our designated unloading spot
2. Need to be able to lift 30lbs
3. Inventory check at night
4. Wiping down the shelves
5. Taking trash or any item that will spoil out of the bus
6. Sweeping
5. Assemblers
   1. Assembling orders will take place on every Sunday and Monday
   2. Need to be able to lift 30lbs
   3. Inventory check before and after assembling boxes
   4. Help organize produce and assemble custom made boxes

Days and times available to volunteer:

Every 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sunday and Monday:

Times will vary based off of when is best for the volunteer.

Task: Assembling custom made boxes to be delivered on Tuesday

Every 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Tuesdays:

As of May 2017, the Fresh2You Mobile Market will be switching our Tuesday bus run to a delivery system. This switch comes in hopes if impacting more people. While our target customers on Tuesday are older adults and we pull up closer to where they live, we are still noticing that many cannot come down to where the bus is due to mobility issues that many older adults face. To overcome this barrier, we are switching to a delivery system. This process will include order pick up Friday, assembly on Sunday and Monday, and delivery of their custom box to their doorstep on Tuesday.

The order drop off schedule is below:

Open: Mosaic Church

6221 Colonel Glenn Rd. Little Rock, AR

8:30am - 9:30am

Fred W Parris Towers

1800 S Broadway Little Rock, AR

10am - 11:30am

Jesse Powell Tower

1010 Wolfe St. Little Rock, AR

12pm - 1:15pm

Con Ivie Gardens

2500 Gaines St. Little Rock, AR

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Close: Mosaic Church

6221 Colonel Glenn Rd. Little Rock, AR

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Every 1 st, 2nd, and 3 rd Saturdays:

Open: Mosaic Church

6221 Colonel Glenn Rd. Little Rock, AR

9:00am - 10:00am

Children's Library

4800 W 10th Little Rock, AR

9:30am - 12pm

8th and Cumberland

Southwest Corner

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Buffington Towers/Albert Pike

224 East 7th St. Little Rock, AR

1:45pm - 3pm

Close: Mosaic Church

6221 Colonel Glenn Rd. Little Rock, AR

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Every 1 st and 3 rd Thursday

Open: Mosaic Church

6221 Colonel Glenn Rd. Little Rock, AR

9:00am - 10:00am

Blue Cross Blue Shield

601 Allied Dr. Building 5, Little Rock, AR

11:00am - 2:00pm

Close: Mosaic Church

6221 Colonel Glenn Rd. Little Rock, AR

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Please call or email Katie Thompson at 501-358-9555 or at kthompson@arhungeralliance.org, or call or email Emily DeYmaz at 501-765-8141 or emily@vineandvillage.org if you are interested in volunteering with the Fresh2You Mobile Market.