Man oh man, this pandemic keeps on spiking. We’ve got healthy fresh foods from ARTfarm to share for tomorrow, but decided for your safety and ours, to go back to pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots this week as Governor Bryan has requested no mass gatherings.
This keeps us down to a more relaxed ten people in the parking lot at a time. So click the link at the bottom to reserve your pickup time and items, and check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!
Luca harvested some beautiful lettuce this week thanks to careful late night watering, and the lovely but brief rainshowers and thunderstorms crossing the area recently. Thursday afternoon we’ll start distributions for 30 customers at 5pm with summer bounty: plentiful SALAD MIX!!! and tons of mangoes, including Mallika mangoes from Farmer Alex at Tropical Exotics. Alex’s sweet and juicy Mallika mangoes feature THE MOST MANGO PER MANGO due to the flattest bone (mango pit) you have ever seen!
From our fruit trees we will have Nam doc Mai and Haitian Kidney mangoes, a few pomegranates, and dragonfruit. Also herbs: garlic chives, kaffir leaves, lemongrass, white/mango/super turmeric, pineapple slips and lots of farm fresh eggs from Mongoose&Zinnia: our daughter’s happy pastured chicken business for her college fund.
We’ve also got lots of beautiful fresh turmerics to add to your dishes and smoothies and health tonics; to make golden milk (great with non-dairy milks too); grate into dishes and add gorgeous color and flavor plus health benefits to sauces.
Finding farm email subscriptions or pre-orders confusing? Check out our help page for some DIY tips, or contact local techie teen Wyatt B., to help you troubleshoot any email or ordering issues. You got this!!
Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or haven’t been to see us since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:
Order ahead on our website; check for confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!
Farmshare choices for Thursday, July 29th, 2021:
We will have just 30 timeslots available for scheduled pickup Saturday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and you CAN order more than one size farmshare. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.
Greens farmshare, $14, will include:
- 2 bags of sweet salad mix
(Add this on to another share if you like!)
Haitian Kidney Mango farmshare, $5, will include:
- 2 lb. Haitian Kidney mangoes
(Add this on to another share if you like!)
Mallika Mango farmshare, $13, will include:
- 5 lb. Mallika mangoes
(Add this on to another share if you like!)
Additional Limited Quantity Reservable Add-Ons*
(please add to your total)
1 dozen pastured M&Z eggs: $7
1 bag superpower BKK turmeric: $4
1 bag red Hawaiian turmeric: $4
1 bag white/mango turmeric: $4
1 bunch extra garlic chives: $2
*(if these are sold out on the order form – or you’d like more than one of an item – there are often additional extras available at the time of pick-up, so if you can’t reserve, leave a note in the comments, bring some extra cash or wait to write your check total. Bring a pen.)
Extra Add-Ons (no reservations)
(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):
- DRAGONFRUIT: $8/lb. as marked
- POMEGRANATE fruits: $6
- sweet SALAD GREENS: $7/bag
- sweetest you ever tried PAPAYA: $3/lb. as marked
- MORE MANGOES: as marked depends on variety
- assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
- pineapple SLIPS to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS, not included in farmshares this time.)
- Garlic chives
- Kaffir lime leaves
- Lemongrass
- Assorted turmerics
Please contact us immediately by text and phone at (340)514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.
The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.
Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here):
Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.
A: We have designed our order form not to allow any one customer to purchase all of one extra. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.
Q: My order isn’t going through.
- if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder and the ‘all mail’ folder
- make sure all required fields are filled/selected
- just try again
- use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
- restart your browser/device
- clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
- reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
- visit our “help” page for additional tips
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.
Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.
Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.
Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 
I detest that youse guys won’t deliver to upstate N.Y.!
C’mon!
Miss ya.
Dan
I did not get a confirmation email
Sent from my iPhone
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Tburner1962@Yahoo.com is where it was sent. Try this advice from the https://artfarmllc.com/preorders/ page on our website:
“…all the advice we have to give on the topic is below, so you’re better off saving time by just following these steps:
• double check the date on the form/link you are attempting to use
• confirm that you are monitoring the same email account that you typed into the form
• if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder AND the ‘all mail’ folder
• search for an email from ‘noreply@jotform.com’
• set up a filter in your email program to catch ARTfarm emails, and set it to check all your mail including the old stuff – if you don’t know how, ask a techy friend or Google it, it’s different for everyone’s individual email program
• revisit the form and make sure all required fields are filled/selected
• make sure your email was typed in twice (CORRECTLY!) on the form
• just try again
• use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
• restart your browser/device
• clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
• reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
• ask a friend or neighbor or computer-savvy IT person to help you”