Wednesday farmstand = WATERMELON INSANITY! In pink, red and yellow! In addition, we will have: Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, mature arugula, mature spicy salad mix, a beautiful assortment of sweet crunchy cucumbers, zucchini in those eye popping colors, loads of heirloom tomatoes and good amounts of slicers, lots of cherry tomatoes, a few eggplants, red noodle beans, lots of green beans, broccoli, bunched broccoli greens, kale, and various Asian greens including bok choy, carrots, onions, radishes, Italian basil, Thai basil, holy basil, lemon basil, garlic chives, dill, cilantro, flat leaf parsley, mint, baby ginger, baby turmeric, baby mango turmeric, our assorted spicy chili peppers, a few seasoning peppers, and zinnia flowers! Also goat cheese from Fiddlewood Farm. Oh wow! 3-4:30pm!!

Loads and loads of sweet salad mix all the way till the end, arugula, spicy salad mix, microgreens, loads of cherry tomatoes till the end, slicing tomatoes and heirlooms, loads of cucumbers, loads of zucchini, loads of red noodle yard long beans, loads of green beans, kale, baby bok choy, dandelion greens, broccoli greens, broccoli, bunched arugula, cilantro, Italian basil, Thai basil, holy basil, lemon basil, garlic chives, dill, mint, parsley, garlic chives, lemongrass, rosemary, all of our assorted chili peppers plus yellow cayennes and now seasoning peppers that are not spicy, baby ginger, baby turmeric, baby mango turmeric, carrots, scallions, onions, beautiful radishes, zinnia flowers and in smaller amounts we will have figs, watermelon, pomegranate and for the first time eggplants!

Wooohoooo! Also eggs from our chickens! And Fiddlewood Farm’s GOOOOAT CHEESE!



This is a broadcast of the emergency tomato warning system. 

Today we may only have two bins of tomatoes available for customers instead of four. We ask that everyone be considerate of your friends and neighbors in line today and perhaps take a few less tomatoes than your heart might desire so that everyone can enjoy a few ARTfarm tomatoes today. (We should be good on cherry tomatoes, it is the slicing tomatoes that have been affected.)

Intense and heavy rains and winds of the last months have had a ‘deferring’ effect on our tomato plants. Gusty winds knocked off flowers, and provided a lot of nutrients and water to the plants. Typically at this time of year Luca is careful not to overwater the tomatoes because it will put them into a plant growth mode instead of a fruit growth mode. But because we could not control the weather, the tomato plants are deferring their fruit setting and they are moving toward vine growth. This means that we will have a lot of tomatoes later in the season if the weather starts to even out. But for the next couple of farmstands, we ask that you show consideration to your fellow customers and share what bounty is available until the crop starts rebounding.

Thanks, and our apologies to Langston Hughes for stealing his beautiful words to talk about something so silly. Have a wonderful day! We’ll see you at three.



Harlem

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-Harlem-What-Happens-to-a-Dream-Deferred-by-Langston-Hughes

Well, this is probably old news but have you seen the 20th annual Taste of St. Croix poster image that Farmer Luca painted of Dale and Yvette Browne? Pretty awesome.

Wednesday farmstand 3-4:30pm: tons of sweet salad mix, loads of teen arugula and teen spicy salad mix, mature arugula and mature spicy salad mix, heirloom tomatoes and slicing tomatoes (cracked but still yummy), lots of cherry tomatoes (more than we’ve had yet), multiple varieties of cucumbers, watermelon, broccoli, lots of different cooking greens, red yard-long beans, green beans, zucchini, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, mint, assorted chili peppers, the first few seasoning peppers, baby ginger, baby mango turmeric, baby red turmeric, young carrots, scallions, dandelion greens, zinnia flowers and for the early birds we will have figs!!! For the grammarians, we have merely this confession, that the penultimate sentence in this post was an extremely long run-on specimen, and yet doesn’t life just feel like that sometimes!?