Saturday Awesomeness 10am – 12 noon

Late spring bounty: Watermelon, pineapple, Thai and Greek pumpkins…
Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, cherry tomatoes, a few regular tomatoes, loads of sweet potato, loads of papaya, loads of pineapple, watermelon, cucumbers, cooking greens, dandelion greens, large beautiful sweet onions, beets, a few radishes, Italian basil, recao, dill, parsley, garlic chives, lemongrass, rosemary, sage, beautiful ginger root, turmeric root, a few passionfruit, all of our peppers, assorted pumpkin slices including the popular Thai pumpkin with yellow flesh, and the Greek sweet red. Fresh cut zinnia flowers, and local goat cheese from Bethany at Fiddlewood Farm. 

ARTfarm Wednesday 3 – 5:30 PM

Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad greens, a few tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, watermelon, loads of sweet potato, pumpkin, loads of papaya, pineapple, ginger root and baby ginger shoots, turmeric, a few cucumbers, all of our peppers, cooking greens, dandelion greens, Italian basil, dill, parsley, garlic chives, recao, lemongrass, beets, onions, radishes. Zinnia flowers!

Rain or shine, we are OPEN today! 10 AM – 12 noon

A pair of whitecheeked pintails apparently mistook a large puddle near the toolshed for a body of water. Who could blame them? We’ve gotten over 9 inches of rain in the last fortnight.
Some of our helpers who came in early today told us that there is still some roadside flooding this morning after last night’s rain (we measured slightly over 2 inches here at Longford). Please take your time on the roadways, but rest assured we are open with lots and lots of great produce today! Looking forward to seeing you all!

Pineapple Boom: Saturday 10am-12pm

Pineapples, pineapples. These beauties take a year and a half or more to grow. Longer than just about any other row crop.
These plants flowered in December. So the fruits seem to take roughly 4 months to form and ripen, depending on conditions.
The fantastic rainfall we experienced the season means that our pineapples are bigger this year. They are still very sweet and flavorful, however. Wait until your pineapple smells unbelievably delicious before enjoying it.
After the hard rains we had over the past few weeks, the plants at ARTfarm are now offering the result: lots and lots of beautiful fruit! Farmer Luca and Co. harvested over 40 pineapples the other night and almost broke the harvest cart! We also have experienced a bit of a cherry tomato bump as well. We don’t usually have a glut of them at this time of year, more of a steadily decreasing trickle, so enjoy them while we have them! Other treats right now include papaya, watermelon, and even a few early dragonfruit! Get your fruit on!

Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad greens, loads of pineapple, loads of papaya, a few slicer tomatoes, a good bit of cherry tomatoes, a little bit of cucumbers, lots of beets, beautiful onions, radishes, cooking greens, dandelion greens, Italian basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, green coriander and fennel seed, recao, lemongrass, ginger root, turmeric, bell peppers, seasoning peppers, serrano peppers, chili peppers, watermelon, passionfruit, assorted pumpkins and miniature butternuts, and of course our beautiful sweet potatoes, big and small, and cut flowers. And Dr. Bradford is back! Hooray, lots of fresh creamy beautiful Fiddlewood Farm goat cheese from her alpine dairy goats up in the rainforest.

We have had to divert a good bit of our energy from farming to flood mitigation on the property, since we’ve already received several generous inches of precipitation. We will be open rain or shine tomorrow morning so please come out but bring an umbrella and a friend, and stay safe!