Dragon Buds! + Art

ARTfarm represented on Art Thursday last night at the Peachcan Gallery with work from both Christina and Luca sharing the wall with several other artists! The “Rebirth of the Spirit” show will hang for several more weeks, including for tonight’s FFAM festival block party (Food, Fashion, Art and Music) in Christiansted.

Saturday 10am farmstand list: sweet salad mix, a few cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes and heirlooms, some onions, a few watermelons, a few papayas, lots of seasoning peppers, Serano peppers, scallions, garlic chives, Italian flat leaf parsley, Italian basil, dill, a few bunches of cilantro, a few bunches of cooking greens, zinnia flowers, lots of ginger and turmeric, turkey eggs and native trees plus rosemary plants and basil plants.

Potentially happy farm news, our dragonfruit vines are starting to form buds. This means the potential for dragonfruit in the future!!

Saturday April Showers!

Happy Friday. We have gotten a few light April rain showers. So grateful!

ARTfarm’s Farmers Christina and Luca will have work in the Rebirth of the Spirit show at Peachcan Gallery for Art Thursday coming up this week, and will also have work showing in the Senepol exhibit at CMCArts in Frederiksted in May.

Saturday’s lineup, 10am – 12 noon: Sweet salad mix, cherry tomatoes, a few slicer tomatoes, cucumbers, some watermelons, a few bunches of onions, Italian basil, parsley, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, radishes, a few bunches of cooking greens, seasoning peppers, Serrano peppers, a few papayas, loads of ginger and turmeric, rosemary plants, native trees, and basil plants. Crowds are definitely lessening but so are our quantities of available produce, so if something is essential for your menu, be sure to arrive promptly.

if you don’t have any plans for Saturday (April 14th) night, join the Starry Starry Night taster menu and silent auction event at Café Christine! A benefit for the Women’s Coalition of St. Croix. You will see some familiar zinnias there. Tickets available on Eventbrite.

Satur-dry April Farmstand

The farm has turned a dramatic and crispy golden color. The soil has deep cracks and fissures, and anything not on regular irrigation is drying out immediately. We still have not received a good soaking on the South Shore. The mango trees are flowering, but will need water to set fruit. So keep doing the rain dance for some April showers still to come at the ARTfarm!The lettuce is really suffering from the dry soil. The heads are small and the fire ants are moving in. But lucky you, Luca saved up the harvest until Friday, so there will be Saturday salad mix! Saturday farmstand: sweet salad mix, arugula salad mix, some cucumbers, some slicer and heirloom tomatoes, lots and lots of cherry tomatoes, Italian basil, garlic chives, parsley, dill, cilantro, nice seasoning peppers and Serrano peppers, radishes, a few bunches of carrots, a few watermelons, hopefully a few figs, lots of ginger and turmeric, and zinnia flowers.

We’ll be open a few more Saturdays until we run out of either food or customers!

Wednesday Season Semifinal 3-4:30pm

Pick a PEPPA!! This will be our last Wednesday farmstand for the season. We will continue to be open Saturday mornings, 10 AM – 12 noon.

Todd from Colorado is headed back to the states this week after spending four months working here, enjoying Ha’Penny beach, and learning about Caribbean farming and culture. We have enjoyed his positive spirit. He’s been a particularly mighty mulcher, composter, papaya planter, bed weeder, and ginger and turmeric harvester. He’s been bitten by centipedes and stung by jacks and bees, but maintained his determination to farm in the subtropics. Good luck on your journey, Todd!

Wednesday’s harvest list: We will have lots of cherry tomatoes, good amounts of slicing tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes, some cucumbers assorted types, seasoning peppers, Serrano peppers, Italian basil, garlic chives, dill, scallions, parsley, lots and lots of ginger and turmeric, radishes, a few watermelons, zinnias, one pineapple and a few bags of figs.

Thanks everyone for your continued support! We will be taking a much needed break soon to work on rebuilding and battening down for the 2018 storm season!