Category: farmstand

Art Wednesday at ARTfarm, 3–6 p.m. today

20140219-113358.jpgIt’s the ultimate salsa Wednesday! Everything you need to make the perfect salsa or pico de gallo. AND early bird kale! It’s the hottest trend in the kitchen right now!

Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, microgreens, dill, cilantro, Thai basil, garlic chives, carrots, scallions, zinnia flowers, cherry tomatoes, slicer tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, kale, dandelion greens, broccoli greens, and an assorted variety of chili peppers. As pictured below, clockwise from top: Tejaswani Indian chilies, jalapeños, cayenne peppers, golden cayennes, and Serrano peppers.20140219-113414.jpg

Please, don’t make fun of Luca’s puffy face at the farmstand today. He got into a throwdown drag out fight with some ladies at the Ag Fair on Monday evening over the last bottle of discounted hot sauce.

And, for those of you still reading this, here is your art for Wednesday, entitled: “Ag Fair To-Do List”. 20140219-113519.jpg

ARTfarm Presidential Opening! 3–6 p.m.…

Happy holiday Monday! We know you guys already blew most of your Lincolns, Washingtons, Jacksons and Benjamins at the AgriFest this weekend, and bought other people’s tomatoes, but we just can’t think of anything else to do this afternoon, so ARTfarm is open today for our regular Monday afternoon farmstand. 3–6 p.m. And we take personal checks! Give us your John Hancock!

Today’s healthy, wealthy, wise haul, harvested early this morning: sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, microgreens, teen arugula, garlic chives, bunched arugula, cherry tomatoes, slicer tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, lots and lots of beautiful carrots with juice-able tops for you health nuts out there, and fresh juicy ginger root. Come out and shop with us on a Monday. There’s lots of bipartisan, across-the-aisle feel-good fellowship on the floor. Shake hands with your neighbors and kiss a baby! It’s President’s Day!

20140217-120454.jpgpictured above: Tricky Dickie carrots!

ARTfarm Open Saturday! Same Time Same Place!

Yes, it is Ag Fair weekend on St. Croix. Many of us will be headed over to the fairgrounds over the holiday for some fun and shopping.

In the interests of fuel (and human) efficiency, and as our staff has shrunk over the years, we have found that it is most manageable for us to stay open at our farm, instead of moving our operation to the Department of Agriculture for the weekend. So we will be open our usual time and place on South Shore Rd. from 10 AM to 12 noon tomorrow, Saturday.

You will see us later in the weekend, blending into the holiday crowds and enjoying all the sights and sounds and smells of our wonderful Agriculture and Food Fair! We particularly enjoy: sampling the callaloo soup, listening to some of our island’s musical groups, watching the quelbe dancers, getting a horseback ride, engaging with some of our agriculture researchers and educators in their various booths, taking note of interesting fashion choices that have clearly been custom-made for the weekend, exploring the 4H displays and petting zoo, seeing what the schools have been working on for the fair, catching up with our farming colleagues, and shopping for trinkets and handmade crafts and fruit trees!

Saturday’s farmstand: sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, teen arugula, microgreens, cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, onions, radishes, kale, broccoli, bodhi beans, eggplant, sweet bell peppers, ginger, hot chili peppers, cilantro, recao, thyme, flat leaf parsley, mint, dill, Italian basil (limited amounts), lemon basil, thai basil, holy basil, lemongrass, figs, black sapote and fresh-cut zinnia flowers. And from a friend’s orchard, we’ll have key limes, kefir limes and leaves, sour oranges and more white star apple! We will also have I-Sha’s vegan coconut-based ice cream and bread from Tess. 20140214-163153.jpg

heARTfarm Fresh Flowers for Valentine’s Day! Open today 3–6 p.m.

20140212-115447.jpgTreat your sweet to colorful things that are healthy to eat. Also, we have a wonderful Valentine’s special on our fresh-cut Zinnia flowers: five for a dollar. We picked a ton of them, they are cheerful, bright and locally grown, and the flowers contain seeds in the head, so you can plant them in your garden when you’ve finished enjoying them, and they may sprout new zinnia plants for you! Now THAT’S a romantic gesture of your commitment!

Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, arugula, microgreens, carrots, kale, broccoli, garlic chives, dill, recao, cilantro, an early bird quantity of Italian basil, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, slicer tomatoes!

Open 3–6 p.m. today down the South Shore. Spread love!