{"id":33942,"date":"2020-08-27T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=33942"},"modified":"2020-08-27T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:22:32","slug":"volunteer-neighborhood-farmers-markets-seattle-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/volunteer-neighborhood-farmers-markets-seattle-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer: Neighborhood Farmers Markets (Seattle, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d;font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span>The Neighborhood Farmers Markets is a 501c3 non-profit supporting Washington State Farmers and serving Seattle neighborhoods since 1993. We operate seven food-and-farm-only markets where shoppers can directly buy from local farms and support our local food economy. \u00a0We also do extensive work to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span>increase<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0food access, and all Seattle farmers markets facilitate SNAP\/EBT use and other programs for folks in need. \u00a0Farmers markets are more essential than ever, and our goal is to make sure the markets are here\u00a0each week for our farmers, vendors and communities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>We are currently in need of help on market days with social distancing and safety &#8211; \u00a0helping us to help shoppers with the revised market layouts and protocols. With the added layer of Covid logistics, we have relied more than ever on the tremendous community support for our farmers and markets &#8211; the markets simply would not operate otherwise!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>If you or someone you know is interested in being a friendly (masked) face inside our markets &#8211; we&#8217;d love to hear from you! \u00a0Our Covid team volunteers will get a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes magic that makes the markets happen every week, and get to know some of our staff and vendors. \u00a0Of course, you&#8217;ll get to shop too! \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The four markets we are operating this year are: West Seattle (Sundays), Columbia City (Wednesdays), University District (Saturdays), and Capitol Hill (Sundays).<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif\">For your and shopper protection, we will provide a mask, gloves and safety vest to be worn during the shift (or you are welcome to bring your own mask). \u00a0Shifts are about 2.5 hours each,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif\">and<\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0you\u00a0can sign up for just one time, or as many as you like. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif\">You can access the application form here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seattlefarmersmarkets.org\/volunteer\">https:\/\/seattlefarmersmarkets.org\/volunteer<\/a>. \u00a0Please feel free to share this info\/link with other groups, friends, co-workers etc. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,13,8,9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}