Become a Volunteer
Volunteering at the Memphis Farmers Market is a fun way to give back to your community by supporting local agriculture and artisans, and helping MFM provide opportunities for Memphis area citizens to educate themselves in healthy eating and good nutrition, as well as learn where their food comes from.
Volunteers are essential to ensuring successful MFM general operations, events, and solid customer service. We depend on the generousity of volunteer board, committee members and daily volunteers to help us provide the best farmers market experience possible.
The market’s volunteer participation is robust and growing. Currently we have reserves of more than 400 volunteers who help ensure all of our weekly markets run smoothly — in addition to an extremely active volunteer board that participates weekly.
Typically, about 25 volunteers are needed each week just to run the market day, performing a variety of helpful duties that include vendor checkin, site patrols, market information table, market cafe servers, special events assistants and survey takers. Volunteer reserves are essential and active recruitment and training of knowledgeable, enthusiastic volunteers is ongoing.
We strive to recruit those volunteers truly dedicated to furthering the cause of our worthwhile, nonprofit community organization, and we thank you for your participation and assistance. We hope you'll have as much fun in the process as we do!
To become a volunteer, sign up for our email list . Be sure to check the "become a volunteer" box.
Registered volunteers receive a weekly email with a list of available slots for the upcoming Saturday. If you can volunteer, respond with your duty and shift preference. If you can't volunteer, no problem. We'll check back with you the following week. Those who sign up to volunteer receive a confirmation of their slot and shift. We ask that if you're unable to fulfill your shift commitment, email Terre Gorham or call 901-481-0275 as soon as possible so we can schedule your replacement. Finally, have fun, get healthy, and thanks for helping the Memphis Farmers Market GROW!
To get in touch with our volunteer coordinator, email Terre Gorham or call 901-481-0275.
To learn about volunteer job descriptions, download our volunteer packet.
We ask that all our volunteers please read our Market Policies for MFM Volunteers.