Luca took the leftover trimmings from our pruned trees and created another Hugel bed. This is a great permaculture method to sequester carbon, passively store rainwater, build a healthy microbe population, right underneath a growing area.This is a great time of year to prune and trim up trees before the growth spurt of spring rains or the potentially devastating drought and fire conditions of summer. Weak or poorly formed trees can be a serious and costly hazard during storm season. Instead of waiting until right before hurricane season, we called the artistic and intuitive arborist William “Cheech” Thomas recently and had him trim various large trees on the farm for us. He has a deep understanding of tree anatomy, he’s fast, has every piece of equipment needed to get the job done quickly, and is perhaps about the closest personification to Dr. Seuss’s Lorax that you may come across in this lifetime. You can reach Cheech at (340) 513-4109.
Today’s harvest:
Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, teen arugula, spicy salad mix, loads of all types of tomatoes, mostly green with a few orange bell peppers, freshly pulled onions with big green tops, all three of our smaller peppers (Thai chilies, Trini perfumes, and serranos), garlic chives, Italian basil, Thai basil, holy basil, lemon basil, green coriander, recao, pumpkin, parsley, passionfruit, papaya, lemongrass, lettuce heads, and cut flowers!
From our local farmer partners we have: handcrafted Fiddlewood Farm fresh goat cheese from Dr. Bethany’s west-end Alpine does, and vegan ice cream in local fruit flavors from I-Sha, all homemade dairy free using local fresh coconuts. Shalima and Feel-I are health-conscious people who make ice cream the way we farm: they don’t put anything in there that they wouldn’t want to feed to their own family. Some beautiful late-season heirloom and slicer tomatoes from ARTfarm on St. Croix.
This interesting pumpkin ayote is best steamed or roasted. Its skin is thicker than our other pumpkins.Thai radishes are a new addition!Farmer Luca’s favorite breakfast lately: a sauté of sweet potato, seasoning peppers, onions, cumin, butter and cheddar.Our chickens get shifted every day in their movable coop to fresh pasture.
Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy, loads of all types of slicer, heirloom and cherry tomatoes including nice plum tomatoes for sauce making; bell peppers, all three of the smaller spicy and seasoning peppers, sweet potatoes, carrots, Thai radishes, daikon radishes, a few bunches of cooking greens, lettuce heads, big beautiful onions, ginger root, pumpkin – including a few slices of our Guatemalan ayote pumpkin that has the strangest color flesh but the most amazing flavor Luca has yet to taste in a pumpkin – sweet and dry. Garlic chives, all four of the basils, parsley, rosemary, recao, fresh cut flowers, and fresh St. Croix made Fiddlewood Farm goat cheese medallions.
Come on out to see us Saturday morning! South Shore Road between Ha’Penny and the Boy Scout Camp.
Sweet salad mix, arugula, spicy and baby spicy salad mixes, lettuce heads, loads of all types of tomatoes, bell peppers, seasoning peppers, serrano peppers, Indian chilies, onions, all three types of basil, garlic chives, recao, parsley, passionfruit, papaya, radishes, a few bunches of cooking greens, pumpkin, cut flowers, four dozen ARTfarm eggs.
From our partners we will have Fiddlewood Farm goat cheese and I-Sha’s vegan ice cream.
Baby greens with pineapples in the background. Our pineapples are looking very nice right now and are starting to fruit. If all goes well we should have between 200 and 300 pineapples for sale this summer!
Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, teen arugula, teen spicy salad mix, lettuce heads, a few bunches of kale, sweet potato greens, loads of tomatoes all types (come near the end of the stand and get a few extra for free), beautiful onions, bell peppers, seasoning peppers, two types of hot peppers, ginger, turmeric, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, holy basil, parsley, rosemary, garlic chives, recao, a few bunches of dill and of cilantro, sweet potatoes, a few passionfruit, radishes, carrots, our first papaya for the season, and beautiful zinnias.
From our partners we have Fiddlewood Farms goat cheese and I-Sha vegan ice cream. Ryan will be here with fresh Mahi for sale – also known as dolphin fish (NOT the hyperintelligent mammal) or El Dorado.
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 