Farmers Market Driver/Farmers Market Sales
Fillmore, Alhambra, Cerritos, Santa Barbara
Looking for a person who will drive our 12 ft Box truck from our Fillmore farm in Ventura County to our farmers markets located in Cerritos-Saturdays, Alhambra-Sundays and Santa Barbara Tuesdays. If you are available for only 1-2 of these days please apply and you will have at least one week or day off a month. Days can be somewhat flexible.
The box truck will be filled with produce (oranges, avocados, eggs) from our certified organic Fillmore farm and for the weekend markets the truck will also be filled with fresh local seafood from the Central Coast (fresh fish, shellfish, sometimes live crab, sea urchins!). The schedule would look as follows:
Saturday- Cerritos Farmers Market (10-11 hours)
530 am Leave Fillmore farm
7:00am arrive Cerritos farmers market
7-8am set up farmers markets booth with sales team
8-12pm farmers market is open and assist our experienced sales team
12-1:30pm pack up truck (breaks and lunch included of course!)
1:30/2pm leave Cerritos for Fillmore
4 pm- drop off truck at Fillmore farm
Sunday- Alhambra Farmers Market (10-11 hours)
530 am Leave Fillmore farm
7:00am arrive Alhambra farmers market
7-8am set up farmers markets booth with sales team
8-1pm farmers market is open and assist our experienced sales team
1-2:00pm pack up truck (breaks and lunch included of course!)
2:30/2pm leave Alhambra for Fillmore
4 pm- drop off truck at Fillmore farm
Tuesday- Santa Barbara Downtown Farmers Market (8 hours)
1pm leave Fillmore farm
2pm arrive Santa Barbara
2-3pm set up with our sales team
3-7pm assist farmers market sales with produce and orange juice
7-8pm pack up truck
8pm leave Santa Barbara for Fillmore
9pm arrive Fillmore Farm
Looking for the following qualifications:
-good driver, comfortable driving 12 ft box truck.
-need to be able to lift 50 lbs when necessary, box truck does have a lift gate and we have dollys to move heavy items
-food safety and food handling experience is a plus
knowledge of or willingness to learn about local fish species and seafood (weekend markets)
respect for multiple languages and cultures as our clients are multi-cultural and speak many languages like mandarin, cantonese, spanish, tagalog and more!
Pay is $20-25 per hour based on experience or $200-250 a day weekends, $160-200 Tuesdays
Please email an introduction of yourself, a resume/work history and your availability. We are Looking to hire, train and start asap.
We are also hiring a farm and livestock helper for the farm, both positions could possibly done by the same person. See job description and/or reach out for details.
Farm and Livestock helper for Organic Farm- Part Time
Fillmore, CA
Some Saturdays, Sundays and Some Mondays/Fridays 8-40 hours a month Flexible schedule
Our small 5 acre organic farm is looking for part time help on some weekends and some Mondays/Fridays. We are a certified organic farm with 400 egg laying chickens and 100 egg laying ducks, 1 sheep, 1 goat and 2 friendly livestock guardian dogs. We produce eggs, oranges and avocados for farmers markets. While we are away at farmers markets we need a helper to care for our animals and sometimes help prepare produce for markets.
Responsibilities include:
-feed chickens and ducks (2-3 fifty pound feed bags)
-fill and clean all waterers
-move and handle sheep/goat when needed (they are friendly)
feed, walk and move dogs when necessary. experience with dogs is a must
observe animals for any injury or illness and separate/treat any animals if needed (will train)
collect eggs, wash and pack eggs when needed
occasionally harvest produce when needed (will train)
pack and unpack produce into market truck
wash and clean farmers market materials
Extra hours could be available when we start our market style vegetable, flower and herb garden. As well as tree and shrub planting throughout the farm.
Looking for a person who loves animals and doesn’t mind getting dusty and dirty. It is a peaceful and safe environment to work and the animals have lots of free range, good nutrition and living conditions.
A higher pay rate would be for:
If you have experience in gardening, row crops, organic agriculture we could have extra hours for you as we develop more produce on the farm.
If you have experience working with power tools like saws, drills, weedwhackers, mowers.
Irrigation repair experience
Light carpentry or handyman skills.
Pay is $20-25 per hour based on experience . Please email an introduction of yourself, a resume/work history and your availability. We are Looking to hire, train and start asap.
We are also hiring a farmers market driver/sales person, both positions could possibly done by the same person. See job description and/or reach out for details.