We are still assessing the damage and our comprehensive fundraising needs, and will share progress and goals as we go, but for now we have some info on donating in several ways plus some volunteering opportunities.
Our east pond water catchment shed held all our fencing replacement supplies and had two water tanks for livestock watering and irrigating nearby fruit trees established about five years ago.
1️⃣ You can make a donation directly to ARTfarm. It is not tax deductible. Do this at the farmstand with the usual payment methods.
2️⃣ You can donate through the federally recognized non-profit 501(c)3 organization VIGFC (Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition)’s Emergency Response Fund tagged “Fire” and your donation will be tax deductible.
• You can make a donation online with a credit card through VI Good Food’s PayPal @goodfoodvi specifying “Emergency Support – Drought/Fire” in the pulldown menu. You’ll get a tax receipt. Please ALWAYS double check that the link is legitimate before making payments online!! Scams are out there to take advantage of disasters.
• You can also write a tax-deductible check to “Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition” with “Emergency Fund – Fire” in the memo, and snail mail to: Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition, Inc., PO Box 2902, Kingshill, VI 00851
VI Good Food is a non-profit farm advocacy organization helping us and other local farmers with disaster relief and other programs.
3️⃣ For volunteering info, check out our most recent farmstand post below for details. We’ll mostly plan these events (cleanups, assessments, rebuilding efforts) on weekends when people have more available time to help. We may post some online signups in the future.
Gorgeous ARTfarm heirlooms full of sweet rainwater and sunshiny richness.
This season is flying by at ARTfarm! TGIF! Massive tomato harvest last night! More coming in for you today! EXTRAS at your pickup time (options will include): WATERMELON, baby arugula, heirloom, slicer and cherry tomatoes, fennel, pumpkin slices and whole winter squashes, peppers, onions with juicy green tops, chinese cabbage, bok choy, ginger and turmeric, radishes and turnips with edible leafy tops, assorted fresh herbs (but sadly, no Italian or lemon basil today – but Thai basil still available). Love these cool breezes!
Winter hard squashes, or pumpkin as chefs like to call it, is amazingly versatile. And uncut, it can sit in your kitchen for weeks as a gorgeous decorative grace note, until you decide what culinary delight you’ll create with it!
Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 63 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP in the last half hour and we’ll fit you in for extras – PLUS there will be another signup in a couple of days. Detailed instructions, and questions answered HERE if you’re new. Welcome!
ARTfarm NEEDS:
• an experienced Linoleum Flooring Installer
• ON-FARM VOLUNTEERS. Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). As brief as two hours at a time. Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants! Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!
Farmshare choices for Saturday, March 2nd, 2024:
Our baby and teen arugula is triple washed and ready to enjoy – it’s versatile – great mixed in to a salad, as a bed and garnish on a plate, as a snack straight out of the bag, or even gently steamed as a side green.
We will have 63 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup. 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 farmshare. At the farmstand, you can choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We require a minimum farmshare purchase because we are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; but we’ll do our best to make substitutions as needed; we want you to be happy!
Please note: Produce (including tomatoes) labeled “seconds” should be used/refrigerated immediately. Cucumbers are a mix of asian, middle eastern and hardy slicing types.
LARGE babyarugumato farmshare, $50, will include:
1 bag of SWEET salad mix
1 bag of baby ARUgula
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
2 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
1 lb. ZUCCHINI
MEDIUM babyspicymato farmshare, $32, will include:
1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
SMALL sweetermater farmshare, $19, will include:
1 bag SWEET salad mix
1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
CHERRY PINT farmshare, $12, will include:
2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
TOMATO farmshare, $10, will include:
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
RED and YELLOW WATERMELON
baby FENNEL
baby ARUGULA HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
ZUCCHINI
BUTTERNUT squash
round DELICATA SQUASH
ONIONS with green onion tops!
pink French breakfast RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
baby BOK CHOY
SWEET PEPPERS
assorted HOT peppers
baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
plenty:
CHERRY TOMATOES
CUCUMBERS
PUMPKIN slices
Chinese CABBAGE – purple and green
tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
Herbs for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS)
Thai basil
Cilantro
Dill
Kaffir lime leaves
Lemongrass
small leaf OREGANO
Scallions
Please contact us immediately by text and/or 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. (And then, add us to your address book!) 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 limit any one customer from cleaning us out. 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)
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!
Our baby and teen arugula is triple washed and ready to enjoy – it’s versatile – great mixed in to a salad, as a bed and garnish on a plate, as a snack straight out of the bag, or even gently steamed as a side green.
Looking forward to seeing you at the ARTfarm! Still raining! Tomatoes are ripening on the vines but can’t be picked wet, and the rain keeps coming, so we have more winter squash than slicer tomatoes this week! EXTRAS at your pickup time (options will include): WATERMELON, cherry tomatoes, baby fennel, pumpkin slices, onions with juicy green tops, chinese cabbage, bok choy, radishes and turnips with edible leafy tops, assorted fresh herbs. Also, winter (butternut and delicata) squash are a THING right now, grab a couple, roast them up and enjoy!!
Gorgeous veggies at the peak of our season! Ginger is an effective treatment for migraines! Stock up on health at ARTfarm!
Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 50 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP in the last half hour and we’ll fit you in for extras – PLUS there will be another signup in a couple of days. Detailed instructions, and questions answered HERE if you’re new. Welcome!
ARTfarm NEEDS:
• an experienced Linoleum Flooring Installer
• ON-FARM VOLUNTEERS. Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). As brief as two hours at a time. Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants! Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!
Farmshare choices for Wednesday, February 28th, 2024:
These gorgeous Cinderella pumpkins went to SALT at the Dairy – the closest restaurant to ARTfarm on the South Shore! Go see what Chef Chris and his kitchen team do with these!
We will have 50 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. 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 farmshare. At the farmstand, you can choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We require a minimum farmshare purchase because we are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; but we’ll do our best to make substitutions as needed; we want you to be happy!
Please note: Produce (including tomatoes) labeled “seconds” should be used/refrigerated immediately. Cucumbers are a mix of asian, middle eastern and hardy slicing types.
LARGE all the basics farmshare, $42, will include:
1 bag of SWEET salad mix
1 bag of teen ARUgula
1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
1 lb. ZUCCHINI
MEDIUM goodness farmshare, $23, will include:
1 bag of SWEET salad mix
1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
SMALL cukermater farmshare, $19, will include:
1 bag SPICY/SWEET (blend!) salad mix
1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
CUCUMBER farmshare, $8, will include:
2 lbs. CUCUMBERS
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
RED and YELLOW WATERMELON
baby FENNEL
SWEET salad mix HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
ZUCCHINI
CARROTS
PUMPKIN slices
ONIONS with green onion tops!
assorted GREEN BEANS
pink French breakfast RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
baby BOK CHOY
SWEET PEPPERS
assorted HOT peppers
baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
BASIL (limited today)
plenty:
CHERRY TOMATOES
SPICY salad mix
CUCUMBERS
BUTTERNUT squash
round DELICATA SQUASH – halve and steam/roast in the oven! YUM!
Chinese CABBAGE – purple and green
tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
Please contact us immediately by text and/or 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. (And then, add us to your address book!) 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 limit any one customer from cleaning us out. 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)
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!
Sweet like candy, our vine-ripened cherry tomato mix is popping with vitamin C and anti-oxidants! We’ve got tons of pints right now!
Happy Friday! It is DEFINITELY high season on the South Shore! The temporary dip in tomato production is booming for cherries! Once again tomatoes ripened on the vine, lots of options for spicy and sweet salad mixes, zucchini, herbs, cooking greens, and root veggies! Extras to add on at your pickup time will include: WATERMELON, extra heirlooms and greens, butternut squash, green beans, chinese cabbage, bok choy, radishes and turnips with edible green tops, assorted fresh herbs. Also, winter squash are a THING right now, grab a couple, roast them up and enjoy!!
Speaking of good cooking, we want to let you know that SALT at the Dairy, our most locally situated restaurant about a mile up the road at Great Pond, has announced that they will be closing. Like, really closing. March 15th 2024 is their last day in business so please make reservations now and enjoy the talents and hospitality of Chris and Kelly Booth. Chef Chris will be around for catering and private gigs, but don’t miss one last meal at this magical location on the deck overlooking Great Pond Bay and the cattle pastures! These guys have made ARTfarm a mainstay of their menu for five delicious, glorious years and we are going to miss them a ton. Thanks, Booth family and welcome to the new addition, soon come!
ARTfarm farmers and customers in the pit singing trio of CHICAGO at CCT this weekend! Come check out this amazing cast and live orchestra before the show closes!
Also – the last two performances of Musical comedy CHICAGO at CCT this weekend – it’s selling out and there will be no extra shows – get on the waiting list by email request HERE. Come see ARTfarmers on stage and in the live orchestra! Members of the Chicago cast and crew – order here and select delivery to CCT rehearsal.
Farmer Luca sorts tomatoes at dawn before the Saturday farmstand.
Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 53 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP in the last half hour and we’ll fit you in for tomatoes and extras – PLUS there will be another signup in a couple of days. Detailed instructions, and questions answered HERE if you’re new. Welcome!
Click here for info on ARTfarm volunteering! Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants!
ARTfarm NEEDS:
• a Linoleum Flooring Person! ARTfarm’s new processing center, funded in part by a grant from World Central Kitchen, is a 40 foot (retired) insulated shipping container getting a retrofit as walk-ins and indoor/outdoor workspace. We’re looking for help with installing vinyl sheet flooring, if you know someone with experience installing this waterproof material please send them our way! We are SO CLOSE to being done.
• ON-FARM VOLUNTEERS. Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time. We have a range of activities for all abilities/fitness levels, including full-body cardio activities, and zen mellow seated-in-the-shade options. You’ll learn about regenerative organic farming practices, market gardening, construction and/or food prep. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!
Support agriculture and scenic farmland in the US Virgin Islands: buy produce directly from farmers. Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!
Farmshare choices for Saturday, February 24th, 2024:
A rainbow of greens on rich topsoil. Get your healthy on with lettuce, Chinese cabbages, radishes, turnips, arugula and more!
We will have 53 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. 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 farmshare. At the farmstand, you can choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We require a minimum farmshare purchase because we are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; but we’ll do our best to make substitutions as needed; we want you to be happy!
LARGE salad lover farmshare, $33, will include:
1 bag of SWEET salad mix
1 bag of teen ARUgula
1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM slighlysmaller farmshare, $23, will include:
1 bag of SWEET salad mix
1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
SMALL spicysweet -n- cherry farmshare, $16, will include:
1 bag SPICY/SWEET (blend!) salad mix
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
2NDS TOMATO madness farmshare, $7, will include:
2 lbs. seconds TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom, discounted scratch and dent)
ZUCCHINI farmshare, $8, will include:
2 lbs. ZUCCHINI
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
baby FENNEL
SWEET salad mix HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
CARROTS
ONIONS with green onion tops!
baby BOK CHOY
SWEET PEPPERS
assorted HOT peppers
baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
plenty:
RED and YELLOW WATERMELON
CHERRY TOMATOES
SPICY salad mix
CUCUMBERS
ZUCCHINI
BUTTERNUT squash
round DELICATA SQUASH – halve and steam/roast in the oven! YUM!
Chinese CABBAGE – purple and green
pink French breakfast RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
Please contact us immediately by text and/or 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. (And then, add us to your address book!) 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 limit any one customer from cleaning us out. 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)
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 