It’s the Tucson Organic Gardeners Shop Hop! Saturday December 9th all day! Free tours, classes, & demonstrations at local organic-gardening and sustainability-related small businesses. Plus discounts for Tucson Organic Gardeners members (membership is only $15/year!) on mulch, compost, soil, worms & worm castings, rainwater harvesting supplies, yard art, pots, aquaponics supplies, and PLANTS PLANTS PLANTS from seeds to veggie starts to fruit trees.
All discounts are for TOG members only, but the activities are open to all!
Need to renew your membership or join? Visit us at our membership page to join or renew. Be sure to fill out the membership form & pay your dues if you’re a new member. Renewals can go straight to clicking Pay Dues. If your membership is current by Thursday, Dec 7, the Hop Hosts will have a roster of members and you will be on it. If you join after Thursday afternoon, your receipt is your proof of membership.
Scroll down for a map & list of Hop Hosts or click here to download a printable version! We will see you on the Hop!
Classes & Tours
9 AM – 1 PM TOG Shop Hop Hub Join TOG in Person! Order your onions in the TOG group order. Free Mexican honeysuckles for new members until we run out!
@ Rincon Heights Community Garden
Rincon Heights is going all out with a family-friendly day full of cool activities for all ages. It’s a garden party!
- 9:00 – 1:00 Garden crafts: Pot painting & seed and succulent planting; fashioning garden fairies; making button badges; making seed tapes
- 9:30 Seed ball making
- 10:00 Breakfast time for the red wriggler worms! Feed the worms & learn about worm composting
- 10:30 Carianne Funicelli of Strategic Habitat Enhancements talk on gardening for pollinators
- 11:00 Using a smart phone to photograph and identify insects & plants
- 11:30 Lunch time for the worms!
- 12:00 Ted Warmbrand, folk singer & peace activist, concert of garden songs
9 AM – 11 AM Mission Gardens
Tasting History: Squash Tasting History program about Squash. Taste it, learn about ancient preservation techniques, learn about growing it, and learn about its pollinators! Oh, and buy it! As a big bonus, at 10am renowned Tohono O’Odham poet Ofelia Zepeda will read her poem “Squash Under the Bed.”
10 AM – 12 PM Watershed Management Group
Living Lab Tour, pre-register @ watershedmg.org — but don’t hesitate to drop by even if you haven’t pre-registered!
12 PM – 2 PM EcoGro LLC
Fall Gardening Tips & Tricks for the Cold
2 PM – 4 PM Aqua Green Go Urban Farm
- 2:00 Introduction to aquaponics
- 2:30 Urban food forests/permaculture/irrigation/rain harvesting/pollinators/native bee hive building,
- 3:30 Grafting demonstration and plant propagation.
- Raffle: $20 for a chance at a tree install at your home with a free tree chosen from our nursery stock, plus yard consult or grafting. All proceeds go towards our aquaponics greenhouse to be used for educational purposes to inspire the youth!.
Demonstrations
The Rain Store 10:00 – 2:00
- Thrive and Grow Garden’s very own, Michael Ismail, will be onsite at our new onsite garden bed demonstration, providing you with winter vegetable gardening tips.
- Martha Retallick will be signing copies of her gorgeous new book City Nature.
Village Color Gardens
In addition to over 2000 organically grown veggie and herb starts at their “Plant Yard Sale,” Bill and co. will be sharing their knowledge on growing organically in a nursery setting. AND Bill has offered a free 6″ plant to new or renewing TOG members! He’s got a ton of options, including Double Yellow Datura, Double White Datura, Black Pearl Pepper, Succulent Pots, Calamintha, Papyrus, and well you get the idea! A LOT of really cool plants!
Details on all Hop Hosts & the discounts they are offering members are below the map.
657 W Saint Mary’s Rd
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 10 - 5
Weird plants, hydroponics
Free class @ noon: Fall gardening tips and tricks for the cold
Parking: The dirt lot to the west is also available for parking. Through the green gate!
TOG Member Discount: 20% off
2 Loya's Courtyard
2925 N. Oracle Rd
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 8:30 - 5
Yard art of all sizes and styles, fountains, Mexican imports, locally made art, gifts
Parking: Best access to our parking is from Miracle Mile right turn lane on the curve. Google maps doesnt send you here correctly.
TOG Member Discount: 10% off regular retail prices excludes discount on sale items
3 Mexican Garden Pottery
2901 N Oracle Rd
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 8 - 5
Large selection of pots, Mexican imports, yard furniture
Parking: Best access to our parking is from Miracle Mile right turn just past the curve.
TOG Member Discount: 10% off
4 Rozet Nursery
7707 East 22nd St
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 9 - 4
Native and desert appropriate plants, organically grown herbs and veggies, houseplants, gifts, pottery, seeds and soils
Parking: Carpool and bus are great. Number 7 runs in front of the nursery
TOG Member Discount: 20% off
5 Village Color Gardens - Cooking Roots Herbs and Veggies
7409 E 20th St
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 9 - 4
Will be having a "Plant Yard Sale" with over 2000 herb and vegetable plants available, in addition to flower, succulent, and landscape plants. We are a family run wholesale nursery offering organically grown herb, vegetable, and color plants - and a whole lot more.
Parking: Our nursery is also our home and is in a residential neighborhood. Parking is along the street.
TOG Member Discount: Wholesale prices
6 Tank's Green Stuff
7301 E Speedway Blvd
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 7 - 2
Organically & locally produced compost, soil, mulch, potting mixes, & more
TOG Member Discount: 20% off bagged product
7 Watershed Management Group
1137 N Dodge Blvd
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 9 -12
Low water living demonstration facility with rainwater harvesting, greywater, composting toilets, and more.
Free tour at 10 AM.
Parking: Limited parking off the alley at the facility. Additional on street parking a block North.
TOG Member Discount: 10% off in the Welcome Center
3248 E Grant Road
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 10 - 2
Rainwater, Greywater, and Gardening Solutions
Parking: Please park on the west side of our building in the parking lot
TOG Member Discount: 10% off up to $100 discount
9 Aqua Green Go Urban Farm
2232 N Forgeus Ave
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 9 - 4
Urban farm and nursery featuring subterranean earthship tire greenhouse, aquaponics, info on tree grafting, permaculture, and building food forests. Trees and other plants for sale. Raffle for $20 per ticket to have us come plant a tree of your choice from our nursery plus a yard consult-- an $800 dollar value
Parking: Plenty of parking on street. Follow the signs to enter
TOG Member Discount: 10% off
10 Inch by Inch
2002 E 14th St
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 9 - 2
Composting worms and products for gardening, farming, agriculture
Parking: Our entry is on Norris Ave, 2002 is a corner building
TOG Member Discount: 10% off up to $100, $15 over $100
11 TOG Shop Hop Hub & Rincon Heights Community Garden
1047 E 8th St
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 9 - 1
Home of the TOG Hop Hub, where you will find TOG board members and a garden fair with crafts, activities, for the whole family, educational tours of the garden, seed giveaways, and refreshments. Don't want to set up your membership online? You can do it in person here!
12 Tank's Green Stuff
5300 W Ina Rd
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 7 - 2
Organically & locally produced compost, soil, mulch, potting mixes, & more
TOG Member Discount: 20% off bagged product
13 Mission Garden: Friends of Tucson's Birthplace
946 W Mission Lane
Hours Sat, Dec 9th: 8 - 2
We have plots growing heritage plants from all the eras of local history and all of the cultures that have contributed their agricultural heritage to the Tucson area.
Tasting History program on Squash from 9am - 11am.
TOG Member Discount: 10% off in the book store
Online
Ponvel Productsshop.localfirstaz.com/store/ponvel-coco
Coupon Code: TOG23
Soil amendments made from coconut husks.
TOG Member Discount: 10% off
Pollinator Web
PollinatorWeb.com/shop
Coupon Code: toghop2023
Smart Plant Tags for native Arizona plants, garden signs, and metal veggie plant tags with planting instructions from TOG's planting guide!
TOG Member Discount: 20% discount excludes eGift cards and sale items. Flat rate shipping $7.99, free shipping on orders over $100