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Laying Pipe

In the off season, when the tomatoes are NOT bursting off the vines, you’d think we would take it easy, go to the beach, or do some cool new paintings.

Not so, friends.

Luca operating a trencher on a skid steer in the pastures at ARTfarm
Luca operating a trencher on a skid steer in the pastures at ARTfarm. We're laying poly pipe for livestock irrigation! Photo by Mitch Amarando.

The off season is when we catch up on infrastructure projects. Luca has been cutting trenches with a skid steer using a hydraulic trenching attachment in our pastures, to bury water lines for our upcoming livestock project. We’ll be experimenting with multi-species grazing and micropasturing. We’re burying the polyethelene pipe so that it will be protected from UV damage, heavy equipment, fire, and chewing animals. It should last just about forever.

Juicy Farmstand Today! 10am – 12 noon.

A closeup view of tiny tender leaves of mustard, arugula, radish and lettuce greens from the ARTfarm.
Our baby mix is made of tiny tender leaves of various greens including mustard, arugula, radish and lettuce greens, harvested just moments ago at the ARTfarm.

For our Saturday morning crowd today we have spicy baby mix, microgreens, arugula, and asian water spinach. In the fruit department there’r carambola (star) fruit, bananas, mangoes, soursop, jackfruit, eggfruit and breadfruit. For treats we have Feel I’s ice creams, Alisha’s Sweetface chocolates, and all the charms of Farmer Luca!

Green and yellow Cavendish bananas rest atop a pile of Haitian kidney and Valencia Pride mangoes at ARTfarm.
It's fruit salad time! Green and yellow Cavendish bananas rest atop a pile of Haitian kidney and Valencia Pride mangoes at ARTfarm.

See you this morning!!

ARTfarmstand open this afternoon! Gold and green!

Two happy ladies laden down with microgreens and mangoes at the ARTfarm
Get your gold and green produce at the ARTfarm! Beautiful sisters Maria Walsh and Tara McQueston at the farmstand today, loaded down with mangoes, carambola fruit and microgreens! Yum.

Today’s ARTfarmstand features GREEN: microgreens, teen arugula, asian spinach, basil, lemongrass, garlic chives, breadfruit. GOLD: Valencia Pride and Haitian Kidney mangoes, carambola (star) fruit, pineapple, and eggfruit. Locally made honey vinegar, Feel I’s ice cream, and Sweetface chocolates. Alisha has a new flavor: ginger chili. Yummers!

We have pineapple slips for all you budding pineapple gardeners out there. Two bucks for the little ones, three bucks for the huge ones. It only takes 18 months to grow your own! Fun for the kids!! Teaches patience!!!

ARTfarm stand open – 4:30-5:30pm today!

A bunch of beautiful ripe plantains at ARTfarm
Plantains are a sweet vegetable in the banana family, delicious baked or fried. These are particularly sweet.

Today we have LOTS of yummy salad options: young arugula (teen, baby), spicy salad mix, and microgreens! For healthy veggies and herbs, we’ve got asian water spinach, breadfruit, chives, basil, and lemongrass. To round out your vitamin intake we have jackfruit, mangoes, crazy sweet and yummy plantains, and eggfruit. Also back in action: a full range of Sweetface chocolate flavors including new ginger chili flavor, Feel I’s ice cream, local honey, and fresh local eggs.

If you don’t know what to do with plantain, breadfruit or eggfruit, see the articles on ARTfarm’s website for ideas!