There are many varieties of dragonfruit aka pithaya. Pictured here with some butterball mangoes, these dragonfruits range from a more tart flavor to milder to one that’s intensely sweet.
Pink! Purple! Purpleish pink! Magenta! Stop by the ARTfarm for a quick pop-up farmstand on Saturday from 11:30am till 12 noon. There will be an abundance of dragonfruit in various varieties and levels of sweet to tartness! All flavorful and healthy treats! Loads of our sweet onions with green tops that are so delicious used as scallions.
Delicious dragonfruit is ready for you at ARTfarm! Easily eaten out of the soft skin with a spoon! A beautiful and naturally dramatic presentation snack or dessert or anytime treat. Delicious and extra sweet at room temperature, or very refreshing out of the fridge.
Also available: Kefir leaves, garlic chives, lemon grass, mango/white turmeric, turmeric, Zinnia bunches, and pineapple slips.
We will also have our pastures Mongoose&Zinnia eggs available and a few of our incredible butter ball mangoes.
First come first serve. No reservation required!
Farmer Luca and family wants to take a moment to encourage everyone to support local farmers. If you can’t make it to our farmstand, Sejah Farm is a wonderful farm/market that sells their own produce plus lots of produce from all over St. Croix. They have a wide selection and are open more hours and days than we are.
There is also the Saturday farmers market at the Department of Agriculture grounds where you can buy directly from farmers.
Remember the best way to support agriculture in the US Virgin Islands is to buy produce directly from farmers.
Still blazing hot at this time of year. Time for another round of ripe refreshing dragonfruits! Swing by for our quick pop-up! Saturday August 20th 2022 from 11:30 AM – 12 noon at ARTfarm. No reservations required.
Loads of red and pink fleshed dragon fruit! Plenty sweet onions with green tops And plenty pineapple slips to grow your own! $2-3 each as sized
Smaller amounts of the following: Thai mangoes (Nam doc mai) from local orchard Tropical Exotics Sweet potatoes, creamy orange inside
Freshly dug sweet potatoes at ARTfarm, August 2022.
Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!
Use the green onion tops like scallions, fresh or cooked as a garnish or an herb, they are fantastic and crunchy and sweet. To keep the green tops fresh longer, keep your ARTfarm onions refrigerated, or cut the tops off and store them separately in a zip top bag in your fridge when you get them home.
Love to see you in the morning! Farmer Luca is a little lonely these days.
Make the switch from ice cream to the decadent treat of pitaya, or dragonfruit, in these hot months of the year. Pick some up Saturday August 6th 11:30 AM – 12 noon at ARTfarm. This is a short mini pop-up, so no reservations required although you can reserve eggs!
Dragonfruit for breakfast or dessert or an anytime healthy sweet snack! Hydrating, refreshing, full of calming minerals and shocking in color.
Come to ARTfarm to buy this amazing fruit Saturday 8/6/22 from 11:30am – 12noon.
We will have loads of pink and dark red fleshed dragonfruit $8/pound
It’s that pi-time of year – for pitaya!
Bunched sweet onions with green tops $5 Garlic chives $2 Mango turmeric $3 Turmeric $3 Lemongrass $2
Zinnias $5/bunch
Sweet potato greens $3/bunch
Pineapple slips $2-3 each as sized
A few last pineapples, and a few Nam doc mai mangoes will also be available. Pastured local chicken eggs from ARTfarm’s littlest farmer, Mongoose & Zinnia, and/or farmer Nikki Schuster, $8/dozen. If you would like to reserve eggs, send a text to (340) 277 – 43 43.
Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!
Use the green onion tops like scallions, fresh or cooked as a garnish or an herb, they are fantastic and crunchy and sweet. To keep the green tops fresh longer, keep your ARTfarm onions refrigerated, or cut the tops off and store them separately in a zip top bag in your fridge when you get them home.
Gloriously sweet, a little tart, and so healthy. Make the switch from ice cream to the decadent treat of pitaya, or dragonfruit, in these hot months of the year. Pick some up Thursday afternoon August 4th 5:30pm – 6pm or Saturday August 6th 11:30 AM – 12 noon at ARTfarm. This is a short mini pop-up, so no reservations required although you can reserve eggs!
Pitaya fruit is said to be high in magnesium, iron, fiber, and vitamins B2 and C. That means it can help with anxiety and insomnia and keep you healthy!
Dragonfruit is a cactus vine plant that grows quasi-parasitically on trees for structure. (See the comment section below for a better explanation from local expert cultivator Pat Hanada!) It’s the commercial cousin of the night blooming cerrus and requires pollination at night. It’s a plant that’s well-suited to the arid south shore of St. Croix, and they grow here at ARTfarm with a sweet bright flavor that is unlike the bland imported dragonfruits we’ve gotten at grocery stores.
Dragonfruits developing on the vine on the arid south shore of St. Croix at ARTfarm LLC!
Dragonfruit is super easy to prepare and eat, you just need to slice it down the middle with a good tomato knife and then eat the center right out of the rind with a spoon. You can also cut it into sections and eat them right off the peel like an orange slice. The tiny seeds crunch between your teeth like poppyseeds. Folks love them at room temperature for maximum sweetness, but they can also be chilled in your refrigerator for a cooling treat.
Of course you can put dragonfruit in smoothies, you can use it to color foods naturally, and you can add it to fruit salads and other fruity dishes for a mind blowing pop of color.
Come to ARTfarm to buy this amazing fruit either Thursday 8/4/22 at 5:30 – 6pm. Or Saturday 8/6/22 from 11:30am – 12noon.
We will have loads of pink and dark red fleshed dragonfruit $8/pound
It’s that pi-time of year – for pitaya!
Bunched sweet onions with green tops $5 Garlic chives $2 Mango turmeric $3 Turmeric $3 Lemongrass $2
Zinnias $5/bunch
A few last pineapples, and a few Nam doc mai mangoes will also be available. Pastured local chicken eggs from ARTfarm’s littlest farmer, Mongoose & Zinnia, and/or farmer Nikki Schuster, $8/dozen. If you would like to reserve eggs, send a text to (340) 277 – 43 43.
Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!
Use the green onion tops like scallions, fresh or cooked as a garnish or an herb, they are fantastic and crunchy and sweet. To keep the green tops fresh longer, keep your ARTfarm onions refrigerated, or cut the tops off and store them separately in a zip top bag in your fridge when you get them home.
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 