Job Description:  Field to Table (FTT) is looking for an individual to work with several of our Farmers Markets to develop, plan and manage promotional events / activities.   Promotional events would be carried out at the market location and may be associated with the time of year (i.e. spring strawberry festival, July 4^th holiday, etc.), educational in nature (i.e. health awareness, farming, etc.), or be focused on particular demographic groups (i.e. children, Federal Employees, etc.).  

The individual would be expected to meet with the market managers to develop a plan of events for the season and work to implement the event plan by coordinating with the market manager and outside organizations.  Work would include, but is not limited to:

• Develop a schedule of events for the year
• Contact and coordinate with third parties related to the event as needed
• Work with the specific market managers and community volunteers regarding space, timing, and other logistics
• Provide on-site, day-of-event support as needed
• Provide feedback / lessons learned after the conclusion of the event

The ideal candidate would have prior work (volunteer or paid) organizing group activities / promotional events. 

Location of Work / Level of Effort:  Position would be considered a part time consultant.   The planning and development of promotional activities can be done anywhere and working hours would be flexible.   The events would take place at the market location, on Saturday or Sunday morning (dependent on the market).   Workload in 2019 would involve 12 – 15 events over the course of six months (May through October) with the assumption that the level of effort for each event would be roughly 8 – 10 hours. 

Pay:   $20 – 25 / hour depending on experience

About Field to Table (FTT):  FTT is an Arlington-based, non-profit organization dedicated to building communities throughout Northern Virginia through the encouragement of healthy eating. The organization is part of the nationwide “locavore” movement, which encourages people to reestablish their relationship with the land and purchase from local farmers and food preparers. The emphasis is on nutrition, taste, quality and freshness in what we buy, not on the misguided values of mass production, long shelf life, and long-distance transportation that drive so much of what is sold as food in the United States. FTT table currently manages four different Farmers Markets, Westover Farmers Market – the organization’s original market, Fairlington Farmers Market in South Arlington, the Marymount Farmers Market on the main campus of Marymount University, and the Lubber Run Market at Barrett Elementary School.

Contact:  Ted Stump, theodore.m.stump@gmail.com or 571-213-6847

thanks to Shaina Brown for producing this video.

The Westover Farmers Market will be open this Sunday during usual winter hours, 9 – 1.  Vendors will be back with their seasonal fruits and vegetables and with wonderful baked goods and other locally prepared foods.  Come to the market to see where all of last Sunday’s snow has been placed!  A monumental effort by local market volunteers to get the market reopened.

In case your dessert habit is feeling a bit underfed these days, perhaps you might ponder Livin’ the Pie Life.  Yes, that’s right: hand-made pies, local in Arlington, now at WFM.  You know you want some. Look for them up on the plaza in front of the library.

And don’t you want to smell nice when you’re at the market kibitzing with neighbors?  Felicity’s hand-crafted soaps has just the thing for you, in all manner of skin-friendly, nice-smelling options.  Also look for them up on the plaza.

See you at the market!