What are the responsibilities and job description for the St. Augustine Farmers Market position at Frog Song Organics, LLC?
Farmers Market Team - Full or Part Time
St Augustine $120 per day
6:00 am - 2:00 pm
Our farm produces healthy food for individuals at farmers markets, grocery stores, and the best restaurants throughout Northern and Central Florida. This position helps the farm by making sure our customers have a great experience at the farmers markets.
This position is for someone who loves eating healthy produce and experiencing the seasons through local food, has enthusiasm for making good recommendations to our customers, and has an eye for detail and maintaining an attractive display.
An Ideal Candidate Can:
- lift 50 lbs
- stand all day
- work in heat/cold/rain as needed
Farmers Market Team - Full or Part Time
- can work a register
- be friendly with customers and make suggestions
- be enthusiastic about veggies and talk with customers about how to cook with them
- be available at least 3 weeks out of the month consistently
- be a morning person (if applying to a morning market)
- look around and see what needs to be stocked and set up an attractive display
Job Duties
- Arrive at market on time and assist with set up
- Restock displays as needed
- Make conversation with customers
- Communicate the value of our product by explaining what goes into each product
- Ask customers what they’re planning to cook tonight and/or make suggestions (see this Training Handout on Promoting & Selling at Farmers Markets)
- Provide superior customer service
- Offer samples when appropriate
- Assist with break down for the hour following the end of the market
Requirements
- Positive attitude and friendly demeanor
- Enjoy sales work and customer service
- Outgoing personality, willing to talk to people and offer suggestions
- Ability to use a Square register and count back accurate change
- Ability to document inventory and keep written logs
- Ability to pass background check and/or provide professional references
- Physical endurance and ability to prepare yourself for working outdoors with proper rest, hydration, nutrition and attire
- Intrinsically motivated to do an efficient, high-quality job
- Attention to detail
- Interest in cooking and/or organic farming
- Interest in helping to create an alternative to the industrial food system and supplying people in your community with healthy food
- Team player, can-do attitude
- Positive attitude and an optimistic world-view
Farmers Market Team - Full or Part Time
- Healthy lifestyle, no substance abuse, non-smoker (no tobacco use allowed on site or at markets)
- Love to eat veggies
- Able to come to farm for a field trip & paid training
Mandatory for all Farmers Market Applicants - In order to help with connecting team members to our farm and our mission, we are implementing a requirement for all market staff to attend a paid on-farm training and work day, and/or an educational farm tour within six weeks of starting and at least once a year.
Benefits
- Take pride in doing work that feeds our community healthy food
- Tips sharing program pooled with all team members
- Access to free farm food, plus staff discount on additional items and store credit
- Teammates are invited to pick their own vegetables, herbs, or root crops for daily consumption (unpaid time). Please ask first about fruit crops, especially tree fruit crops (John or Amy will help identify non-marketable fruit for farm food).
- An additional $20 hour credit to use our booth
The first day of orientation for any position will be a work-trade. Orientation will be a work/trade 5-6 hour day, with the goals of food safety training, orientation, cleaning/organizing, and introduction to our system. We will compensate with an abundant box of produce, eggs, meat, and/or value added items for this first work/trade day.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
See all of our available jobs here:
https://frogsongorganics.com/about-us/join-our-team/
TO APPLY
To ensure we see your application, please email us directly at frogsongjobs @ gmail.com (remove spaces from address) in addition to applying via really. Please send us the following by email:
1) Your cover letter - please include a description of your favorite vegetable and how you like to eat it. We will only respond to complete applications including this information.
2) Resume
3) Contact information for 3 professional references
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $120.00 per day
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Weekends only
Work Location: In person
Salary : $20