Sleeping Frog Farms

At Sleeping Frog Farms, we believe that Community Supported Agriculture is the best way to connect with your food and your farmer, to build a vibrant food community in Southern Arizona, and to ensure quality, transparency, and accountability within our food system. We are offering a total of 100 shares for our Fall CSA session, which will run from September 26th through December 12th. Current CSA members will be given first priority to continue their shares, after which we are taking new CSA members on a first come first serve basis. There will be at least 50 spaces available for new members. For those who are not able to join us this fall, our winter session will begin in mid-January. Our fall session will cost $300 if paid up front, or members may choose to pay in two installments of $160. Members will receive $25-$35 worth of seasonal fruits and vegetables each week, picked up Sundays at the Tucson Farmer's Market (at St. Phillips Plaza).

Developed in the 1960s in Japan, CSAs are a way for communities to share the risks and the bounty of the harvest with the farmer. CSAs offer a positive alternative to the conventional agricultural system and works to create a viable economic model in which farmers receive 100 percent of the food dollar.

In a CSA, consumers buy shares in a farm's output before the growing season starts, and then reap the benefits of the harvest each week as the season progresses. CSA members agree to share in the fluctuation and variations inherent in farming, and understand that their produce will be grown with sound sustainable farming practices. Members are, in essence, shareholders in the farm, thus becoming invested in its successes and failures.

• A weekly box of fresh-picked, seasonal fruits, vegetables, and herbs totaling an average retail value of $25-35.
• Weekly newsletters and recipes from your Sleeping Frog farmers.
• Farm volunteer opportunities and special CSA-member farm tours.
• A convenient pick-up location at the Sunday St. Phillips Market (we are also considering additional pick-up locations).
• Discounts and purchase priority on non-CSA items.
• The guarantee that your produce has been grown locally, using environmentally sound and desert-conscious farming practices, thus having a far lower carbon footprint than grocery store produce.
• Since your veggies have been grown, harvested, and processed by the very same smiling folks you see every week at the farmer's market, you have the unique opportunity to get to know your farmers, ask questions, and make suggestions.
• The eager anticipation of your weekly share.
• The opportunity to get involved in your food and to truly eat what is in season—and license to get creative in the kitchen!
• A chance to defy the industrial food system, say "no!" to conventional agribusiness, and vote with your dollar. CSAs offer you—the consumer—the ability to participate in your local food system, which supports local farmers, the local economy, and contributes to the overall health of your community.