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 have several CSA options available, and are currently registering new members for our Summer, Fall, and One Year CSA sessions. Please select the option that best fits your pick-up time and location preference.

 

Central Tucson:

St Phillips Farmers Market: (Campbell/River): Sunday mornings from 8am-noon in the Summer and 9am-1pm in the Fall.

Food Conspiracy Coop: Sunday afternoons from 5-7 pm in the Summer and 4-6pm in the Fall. Food Conspiracy Coop members receive a 5% discount with this pick-up option.

The Summer CSA session for both pick-up locations runs from June 10 – September 2. Fall sessions go from September 9 – December 2.

The cost for our 13-week sessions is $325 if paid up front, or members may choose to pay in two installments of $170.

Note: We also offer a One Year membership, which is only available for the St Phillips pick-up option and costs $1200. One year members enjoy 48 weeks of Sleeping Frog produce and eggs. The dates are June 10 – December 2 & January 6 – June 2, with a one month break in the winter.

Eastside Tucson:

We are also proud to offer an Eastside CSA pick-up location at the Civano Community School (located at 10625 E Drexel Rd) on Wednesday afternoons from 2:30-4pm.

Summer and Fall dates coming soon!

 

Our 2012 Summer and Fall Bisbee CSA dates are as follows: 

 

Summer:             June 7 – August 30

Fall:                         September 6 – November 29

 

The cost for our 13-week Bisbee sessions is $325. Members may also choose to pay in two installments of $170. Pick-up is at 54 Brewery in Old Bisbee at the Ecoasis Sustainable Living Center on Thursday afternoons from 5-7pm.

Our 2012 Summer and Fall Farm Pick-Up CSA dates are as follows:

 

Summer:            June 10 – September 2

Fall:                        September 9 – December 2

 

Pick-up is at our farm, which is located at 4510 N Cascabel Rd, approximately 20 miles north of Benson. Pick-up hours are Sunday afternoons from 4-7pm in the summer and 3-6pm in the Fall. CSA members who select this option enjoy a farm pick-up discount. The cost for a 13-week CSA session is one payment of $295 or two payments of $152.50.

Is your neighborhood, church, community center, workplace, or school interested in organizing a Sleeping Frog CSA pick-up? Great! Here’s what we require in order to add your community to our delivery schedule: 

• A convenient drop off/pick-up location that is easily accessible to both farmers and CSA members.
• A weekly day and time for pick-up that works for our schedule, as well as yours.
• A minimum of twenty members, registered and paid three months in advance.
• A friendly “host” from the community, who is willing to help us coordinate and set up the weekly CSA pick-ups, in exchange for a CSA share.

Contact us at sleepingfrogfarms@gmail.com for more information about helping us begin a CSA pick-up in your community.

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.

We are currently accepting applications for our Summer, Fall and Year Long CSA sessions. Please look closely at the registration deadline for new members, which is printed on each registration form. If it is after this date, we’ll happily add you to our CSA waiting list, and you will be contacted as soon as registration begins for our 2013 sessions. Please contact us at sleepingfrogfarms@gmail.com if you have any questions.