Farmer Frog

Farmer Frog is Branch of the 501c3 non-profit organization, Foundation for Sustainable Communities. We are promoting, supporting, teaching, and practicing intense urban and small scale agriculture utilizing cutting edge season extender technologies producing 365 days a year. Our organization was and continues to be inspired by Will Allen’s Growing Power model.

We are partnering and working with minority groups, youth organizations, schools P-20 (preschool to PhD) and senior citizen programs. We are collaborating with educational research institutions, such as the community colleges and universities around here and in other countries. We see our garden sites and core location as hubs for a new industry: urban agriculture, while being a source of community, education and potentially hundreds of jobs nearby.

Farmer Frog promotes high intensity sustainable small scale and urban community farming on public or private land combined with LID (Low Impact Development) technologies and a holistic, whole system approach. Sites managed based on these principals are practicing what is called intense urban production, wild farming and/or conservation-based agriculture because these sites provide food not only for humans, but for wildlife as well. These practices mitigate the negative effects of urban runoff and development which pollute and destroy our natural waterways and ecosystems.

Farmer Frog is developing and delivers hands-on programs and informational classes collaborating with other for profit and non-profit groups and organizations to enhance the knowledge of their own staff and the public about the ever-evolving technologies available locally not only for farming purposes, but to preserve, restore, and enhance the natural environment, our communities and cultural traditions while providing the people and wildlife with a healthy and safe habitat. To fund our start-up, we have individual sponsors and also groups who feel our mission is important and want to help fund our efforts. We hold fundraisers and we are actively applying for grants. Farmer Frog embraces a servant leader philosophy providing duplicable local solutions, effecting Global Change.