As Virgin Islanders, we do not have the impending pressure of directly deciding on the next leader of the free world. To make up for it, at ARTfarm we try to dazzle you with lots of choices, none of which are mutually exclusive or funded by superPACs. We vote you eat healthy!
Wednesday, 3–6 p.m. on South Shore Rd., about a mile east of Ha’Penny beach: Sweet salad mix, baby spicy mix, baby arugula, smaller amounts of cherry and slicer tomatoes, bell peppers, various hot and seasoning peppers, pumpkin, Italian basil, lemongrass, garlic chives, recao, parsley, bunched arugula, scallions, passionfruit, papaya, and cut flowers. We have freshly made Fiddlewood Farm’s local goat cheese!
Overall, the tomato plants are slowing down as the weather gets slightly hotter, but we still have tons to pick and for you to enjoy!Our sunflowers are getting ridiculously tall! They seem to love our soil. We field tested some cut sunflowers this week in a jar of water and they lasted at least six days with no added care. If you change the water more regularly and add a couple of tablespoons each of apple cider vinegar, sugar, and baking soda to the water, they should go even longer!Can you find the melons in the melon patch? Lots of exciting varieties, soon come!
The arts are very busy this weekend with the VI Lit Fest partying hard at UVI and CMCArts, and various art exhibitions including a mix of student and professional work at the Good Hope Country Day School. Get out and enjoy some culture, or stay in and practice your own creativity!
Yesterday’s full moon coincided with Earth Day. We hope that more and more people will join communities like ours of small farmers and their dedicated customers, to practice Earth Day consciousness and conservation around the calendar all year long.
Fiddlewood Farms goat cheese is back today! Pairs perfectly with any and all of the following items: Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, lettuce heads; onions, radishes, pumpkin, sweet potato, green, red, and orange bell peppers; seasoning peppers, both types of hot peppers, a few cucumbers, a few bunches of kale, bunched arugula, parsley, Italian basil, chives, rosemary, lemongrass, ginger root, papaya, passionfruit, cherry tomatoes, medium heirloom and red tomatoes, recao, farm fresh eggs from ARTfarm and from Heather’s hens; and more of Dr. Bradford’s unbelievably fresh, delicate goat cheese.
Aaaand…Decorate your table or make a lovely gift of fresh cut zinnias and sunflowers.
Dragonfruit flowers are nocturnal, but early in the morning they can still be seen fully opened. The giant and dramatic bloom only lasts one day. By midmorning, the flower fades. Summer fruits are on the horizon! Dragonfruit in another month, watermelon in early to mid May, and pineapples starting sometime in May.
Freshly harvested for you, and available Wednesday 3 – 6pm on South Shore Road: Baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, sweet salad mix, cucumbers, loads of green bell peppers, loads of cherry tomatoes, small slicer and heirloom tomatoes, Italian basil, garlic chives, a few bunches of kale, bunched mature arugula, pumpkin, a few bags of ginger root, Indian hot chili peppers, serrano peppers, our yellow non-spicy seasoning peppers, parsley, holy basil, lemon basil, passionfruit, papaya, and loads of cut flowers, including huge beautiful sunflowers.
We’ve got some beautiful sunflowers for sale this weekend! It’s been a busy week for a lot of chefs and food lovers with the St. Croix Food and Wine Experience and the Taste winding down. Happily for small farms like ours, the foodie trend over the last decade or longer has been to put local produce on the menu.
Farmer Katie got dolled up and did a great job setting up our booth on Thursday! Thursday evening marked our 16th year of being a part of the Taste event!
Here’s the Saturday morning list: Sweet salad mix, teen arugula, teen spicy mix, onions; cherry, slicer and heirloom tomatoes; lemon basil, holy basil, Italian basil, parsley, garlic chives, bell peppers, hot peppers, seasoning peppers, a few cucumbers, fresh ginger, sweet potato, pumpkin, bunched spicy greens, a few bunches of kale, a few bunches of carrots, and loads of amazing cut flowers including large multi-branched sunflowers!
From Fiddlewood Farms we’ve got fresh local goat cheese. Yum!
As Virgin Islanders, we do not have the impending pressure of directly deciding on the next leader of the free world. To make up for it, at ARTfarm we try to dazzle you with lots of choices, none of which are mutually exclusive or funded by superPACs. We vote you eat healthy!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 