Roles at Sparrowhawk Native Plant Event:

Plant Tagging & Prep: This shift focuses on watering, organizing and labeling about 10,000 plants before customers arrive. Requires constant and repetitive bending, squatting, sitting/kneeling on the ground - but no plant identification skills are needed. It is perfect for agile people that are excited to improve their plant skills.

Check-in: Greets customers, pulls order forms from numerically-organized file-box, and provides thorough instructions. Must be very friendly, excellent at giving clear verbal instructions, and acting as an ambassador of your organization. Most of the shift is fast-paced and spent standing, but chairs are available for breaks and down-time. No lifting, bending or plant skills needed. Outside, under a canopy.

Plant Prepper: Love handling native plants and making them look their best? Help keep our plant inventory watered and looking tidy throughout the weekend by keeping rows neat and plant trays full. May include occasional customer service, as needed. This is a physically active role, requiring standing/walking on pavement for the duration of the shift, repetitive bending and light lifting.

Customer Service Cart Wranglers (2): This role is great for friendly, outgoing folks that love interacting with the public and finding ways to make this event as inclusive and fun as possible. You will offer to pull plants for folks, help others to their car, and wrangle the carts to keep them orderly. Requires standing/walking on pavement for the duration of the shift, some bending and light lifting, and pulling carts. Native plant knowledge is a huge plus, but not required.    

Plant Pro: Double checks plant orders at checkout to ensure everything is accurate and accounted for. This is the only role that requires native plant identification skills. All plants are labeled - but the task is much easier and smoother if you can quickly recognize many native plant species quickly.

Flash Sale and Tear Down: Flash sale/tear down shift volunteers will help pack up the event and leave the site in tip-top shape. This shift is more physically laborious and includes tearing down/carrying canopies, loading boxes and tubs, helping out with the flash sale, and loading up U-Hauls. Volunteers on this shift are rewarded by getting FIRST DIBS AT THE FLASH SALE!!