Sierra Vista United Methodist Church - Produce Market

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Volunteers are needed to assist in pre-packing produce boxes at our weekly fresh markets.

Every Saturday Borderlands Produce Rescue hosts weekly produce markets. At each market community members line up to receive 70lbs of fresh reduced produce for a donation of $15 to support the mission of Borderlands Produce Rescue.

Produce is delivered to the distribution site early each morning at 3am, volunteers arrive at 5am to start. Produce allotments have already been assigned and will be available in the form of lists on site. The responsibility of morning volunteers is to sort the produce into boxes so it can be easily picked up by supporters.

For example, as part of the 70lbs of produce if we are providing 7lbs of green beans it will be your responsibility to bag 7lbs of green beans and add it to the produce box. If we are providing 15 heirloom tomatoes you will count off the 15 and add them to the box. And so on. Each location will receive approximately 5-8 variations of produce to be added to pick-up boxes for Borderlands supporters.

At the close of the market at 10:00am, volunteers will assist with clean-up of the location. The many churches and sites of the markets ask that we break down boxes, sweep the parking lot, and return the location to them the same way we received it in the morning.

Borderlands Produce Rescue trucks will arrive later in the day and pick-up all left over trash and produce.