Cilantro is peaking! It’s known as an amazing detoxing, digestive boosting herb. We know it’s polarizing, but for those of you who love the flavor of cilantro, here is Farmer Luca’s latest favorite way to incorporate a big fresh bunch into our farm family’s diet:
“Rinse and toss in the blender: one whole bunch of cilantro, one small onion, two medium tomatoes; extras to taste would be a tiny piece of turmeric, some hot pepper, some cumin. Blend until smooth. Use as a sauce, marinade or base flavoring to whatever you’re cooking like chicken or beans, to create a delicious and healthy meal.” Online recipes often add olive oil, garlic and salt to this. If you have a fave cilantro use, pop it in the comments below to share!

Saturday morning at 11 we’ll start distributions for 33 pre-order customers with fresh greens and more listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots this week in order to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE MORE THAN 5 MINUTES EARLY for your pickup slot time!! We are trying to avoid crowds forming!! Grateful for life!!

Available farmshare listings below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!

Friend-of-the-farm Mr. Francis Capone has a contemporary art exhibit at Café Christine with the unique vibe of the South Shore. Stop by the Café through the end of February and check out his delicate drawings and prints for sale, and relax with some coloring. Crayons provided! Enjoy amazing Café Christine cuisine with lots of ARTfarm produce by Chef Lisa! She is one of ARTfarm’s most consistent chef customers. Outdoor seating for lunch, 11:30am-2:30pm Tuesday-Friday. Menu online, call (340) 713-1500 for reservations.

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 at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your 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 Saturday, February 5th, 2022:

We will have 33 timeslots/farmshares 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 we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.

Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)

(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):

• early birds:
• WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
• CUCUMBERS: $3.50/bag 1lb.
• extra bag teen SPICY or teen ARUGULA SALAD GREENS: $10
• slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
• CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
• SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
• cute little SWEET PEPPERS, pimento cheese: $3 bundle
• CARROTS: $3 per bunch
• BUTTERNUT squash: $3.50/lb. as marked
• baby BOK CHOY: $3-4 per head
• KALE, CABBAGE leaves: $3 per bunch
• Chinese CABBAGE head: $5 as marked

• plenty:
• extra bag of SWEET SALAD MIX: $7
• ZUCCHINI: $3/bag 1lb.
• DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
• RADISHES: $3 per bunch
• assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
• assorted HOT PEPPERS: $2 bundle
• baby GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
• Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
• PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized

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.