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Wednesday ARTfarm FEAST 3-6pm!

ART Wednesday today features a young artist’s celebration of farm vegetables and fruit season on St. Croix. FEAST your eyes on this list of tasty treats to cool you off and feed your inner fruit monster!

Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, microgreens, cucumbers, yard-long purple beans, early bird (e.g. limited quantities) tomatoes, Italian basil, holy basil, garlic chives. Fruit season is starting, and we’ve got sweet treats: papayas, pineapples, passionfruit, black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit), and from our partner farm Tropical Exotics, another box of MAMEY APPLES!!

Come down South Shore Road this afternoon and visit the ARTfarm!!20140611-144002-52802163.jpg

ARTfarm Wednesday, 3–6 p.m. Farmers Gotta Dance!

Photo bomb this afternoon with local LOCAL chefs Digby Stridiron and Eddie McNamara! Rocking yet another private chef gig! These foodies are on fire! 20140521-140451-50691618.jpg
For all you private PRIVATE, local LOCAL chef/customers out there, we offer 3–6 today, grown organically right here on the South Shore: Sweet salad mix, microgreens, arugula, kale, collards, sweet potato greens, carrots, bodhi (yard long) beans, onions, tomatoes, figs, bananas, papayas, passionfruit, lemongrass, lemon basil, Italian basil, recao, garlic chives, and thyme! Buy yourself a little thyme!

Also for sale today, tickets for Friday and Saturday nights’ Caribbean Dance Company performances! Both nights start at 7 PM at the air-conditioned Complex auditorium (across the street from UVI). For a $15 donation, enjoy performances from adorable and fiercely talented students and professional company members! This is a fantastic, family-friendly arts celebration of culture and community practically unrivaled on the island! Several members of our ARTfarm family will be performing, so come and see if you can pick out some of your favorite farmers and fellow ARTfarm customers on the stage Friday or Saturday night! Plus: Zombie Ballet from Kemit Amon-Lewis! Do not miss this!

ARTfarm Art Wednesday, 3–6 p.m.:

ARTfarm is open today, 3–6 p.m. on the South Shore with the following ‘tastes’ for St. Croix: Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, microgreens, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, ACTUAL baby carrots, beans, lots of kale, sweet potato greens, red mustard greens, onions, chili peppers, parsley, cilantro, Italian basil, holy basil, lemon basil, garlic chives, sage, cilantro, passionfruit, and raw local honey.

Here is your art for Art Wednesday, a small watercolor study that Luca did prior to the creation of this year’s Taste of St. Croix poster: 20140409-141254.jpg

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