ARTfarm Salad-urday 10am–12noon

Wow, this season is blowing by like unsecured lawn furniture in a cat 5 hurricane, folks! And these powerful gusty winds are certainly bringing back memories of September 19th. Hope everyone’s recovery is continuing to progress.

Saturday farmstand: lots of baby arugula and baby spicy, lots of sweet salad mix, good amounts of cherry tomatoes, very small amounts of slicing tomatoes, some cucumbers, a few beets, sweet potatoes, carrots, lots of onions, a good amount of cilantro, dill, parsley, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, garlic chives, sage, lemongrass, and loads of ginger and turmeric, seasoning peppers, two types, assorted chilies, Serano pepper’s, poblano’s, sweet bell peppers, assorted cooking greens including various kales, large butternut squashes, watermelons, some figs, and zinnia flowers.

Strange new product of the week, for radish lovers: The rat-tail radish, serpent radish, or tail-pod radish is a plant of the radish genus Raphanus named for its edible radish-like seed pods.

We know customers are nervous about the end of tomato season. While this IS the time of year for the avalanche to slow down, we DO still have another planting in the ground. This final set of tomatoes is just beginning to ripen. Hopefully the wind and stink bugs will give us a break… also Grantley Samuel at GLG Produce will soon have some ripe tomatoes, and Sejah Farm is re-opening this weekend! They have some of our ginger on offer.

Windy Winter Wednesday

Who remembers this gem: Witches who wash their wiry wigs on windy winter Wednesdays… are wacky!

ARTfarm Windy Winter Wednesday farmstand 3-5:30pm: Sweet salad mix, cherry tomatoes, slicing and heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, figs, carrots, scallions, assorted cooking greens, assorted butternut squash, beets, bunched arugula, peppers hot and sweet, garlic chives, dill, Italian basil, parsley, cilantro and lots of ginger and turmeric to add warmth to teas and recipes.

These winter winds are drying out and stressing most of our crops (and the farmers a bit too). Last Wednesday was very quiet and we had lots left at 5:30pm, closing time. Come on out!

Lettuce Not Be Afraid

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” — Pema Chödrön

For Saturday, stay healthy: Lots and lots of crispy green crunchy sweet salad mix – there should be enough to last us all the way until twelve noon! Also featuring bagged arugula and spicy greens, cucumbers, lots of tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, lots of cooking greens, bell peppers, seasoning peppers, assorted chilis and more pungent peppers, onions, carrots, sweet potatoes, lots of ginger and turmeric, assorted pumpkin slices, cilantro, Italian basil, lemon basil, dill, garlic chives, flat leaf parsley, radishes, some pink watermelon and a good harvest of figs!

Well, the headlines have been a real doozy lately. If you’re feeling the need to detach a little bit, make yourself a nice big salad with some sweet tomatoes, maybe sprinkle some seeds and nuts on there and a little nutritional yeast, and listen to what a groovy philosophical Buddhist nun has to say about getting unstuck from the headlines and moving into action. For more on Pema and becoming intimate with fear to unlock your fearlessness, check out this link. http://pemachodronfoundation.org/videos/fear-and-fearlessness/

Take Another Little Pizza My Heart Now Baby

Nothing says love like a homemade pizza with a heart of fresh figs and cherry tomatoes roasted on it. This beauty is just ready to go in the oven.

Wednesday afternoon February 14th we’ll be open at the ARTfarm, 3pm – 5:30pm: we will have appropriately red slicing tomatoes, lots of heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes which make the best little “I love you” gift ever, bunched arugula and mizuna and dandelion, lots of ginger and turmeric, some cucumbers, some carrots, Italian basil, dill, sage, parsley, cilantro, garlic chives, a few beets, French radishes, seasoning peppers, Serano peppers, a few cayenne chilies, poblanos, various cooking greens, a good bit of watermelon slices, pink and red fleshed varieties special for the holiday, Sakata melons (Japanese super crunchy honeydew mini melons) and some beautiful ripe romantic figs! Due to high winds and high demand from restaurants earlier this week, we will have very few zinnia flowers…plan B is to make your loved one a beautiful pizza with a heart made of figs in the center. Voila! Hope your day has extra love in it!!