Employment

Riverstone Organic Farm is a diversified farm selling organic produce year round at farmers markets, local grocery stores, and online in the New River Valley of Virginia. We are looking for a confident, energetic, and enthusiastic person to become our lead staff person at the Blacksburg Farmers Market on Saturdays. The Blacksburg Farmers Market is a vital part of our farm business. The farmers market lead must be excited about creating a beautiful and enticing display of seasonal vegetables and interacting with customers to answer questions, promote the farm, and make sales transactions. The farmers market lead will supervise 1-2 additional staff in setting up and maintaining the vegetable display. An additional responsibility is loading and driving a box van from our farm in Floyd to Blacksburg in the early morning, and returning to the farm at the end of the market.

This is a demanding but rewarding job, beginning at 3:30 – 5 AM and ending at 4:30 PM. It requires standing on your feet for 6+ hours and handling heavy bins of produce. The farmers market lead can expect to work most Saturdays (40 or more a year), including in inclement weather. The candidate will train with the farm owners at the market for several weeks before taking over as lead.

The farmers market lead will be joining an amazing team of 12 skilled and passionate people who make Riverstone Organic Farm thrive. If they are inclined, the right candidate may be able to pick up additional hours working on the farming during the regular work week.

Compensation

Pay starts at $22/hr with free veggies and 20% discount at our Farm Store.

Who Should Apply

Local Floyd-ians with a passion for local food, customer-facing interaction, and outdoor work. Must be available most Saturdays year-round, be comfortable lifting 50lbs, standing on your feet, outdoors in all weather for 6+hrs, and interacting with customers. Applicants must have an acute attention to detail, high organizing skills, be willing to work independently as well as with your fellow market team, and be comfortable with POS technology.    

Work description and Schedule

Riverstone attends the Floyd Farmer’s Market each Saturday year-round. We are looking for some-one to lead the market team each Saturday from ~6am-3pm (hours vary by season). This requires arriving at our farm to load vegetables, driving to the Floyd Farmer’s Market, unloading and setting-up the market booth, leading sales during market hours, pack-up at the end of market, and driving back to the farm to unloading any unsold produce at the end of the day. Applicants must be willing and able to perform these duties most Saturdays of the year, with vacations and time-off allowed within reason.

Compensation

Pay starts at $22/hr with free veggies and 20% discount at our Farm Store.  

Who Should Apply

Local Floyd-ians with a passion for local food, safe driving and logistics. Must be available most Tuesdays year-round, be comfortable lifting 50lbs and moving your body in and out of delivery vehicles. Applicants must be comfortable driving a large box truck, have an acute attention to detail, high organizing skills, be willing to work independently, and have good communication skills.  

WORK DESCRIPTION AND SCHEDULE

Riverstone delivers vegetable orders to both wholesale and retail customers across the NRV. Our delivery driver is responsible for arriving to our farm location to check order invoices, load orders, perform safe, efficient and complete deliveries over our entire route and communicate issues and updates to farm staff. Applicants must be willing and able to perform these duties most Tuesdays of the year, with vacations and time-off allowed within reason. Typically work begins at 9am on Tuesdays and is complete by 4pm.

Compensation

Pay starts at $16.50/hr with free veggies and 20% discount at our Farm Store.