Volunteer at a Farmstand

What better way to get connected to our food system than to help staff a stand of locally-grown produce and goodies?

Parade Street Farmstand

Role: Stand staff – help customers get produce, document goods sold on Tuesdays during season at stand on 15th and Parade Street from 12 -3 p.m. or 1:30-3:15 p.m.

Role: Grower – grow produce for the market, backyard gardeners encouraged too!

Contact: consciousfoodproject@gmail.com to schedule a date at the stand or learn more about donating produce

How to donate home-grown produce to the pay-what-you-can farmstand

• Harvest as close to the drop off time as possible (Tuesday Morning)

• Unless the items are dirty (root veggies, splashed with soil, etc), please don’t wash them or process them in any way

• Store items, except tomatoes, in the fridge

• Label the type of food (and variety, if you know it) and store in paper or plastic bags. Small items like cherry tomatoes, beans, etc can be packaged in clean re-purposed plastic clamshells

• Please include your name and location on the donation bag

Highly requested produce to donate

Green tomatoes (big ones)

Collard, turnip, mustard greens

String beans

Yellow Squash

Zucchini

Cucumbers

Red tomatoes

Eggplant (Italian, Middle Eastern, Asian varieties all welcome)

Okra

Carrots

Beets

Potatoes

Bell peppers

Hot peppers

Tomatillos

Any kind of fruit

Garlic

Onions