ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI

We said we were too busy, and we are, but we’ve just got too many tomatoes right now! Who planted all these things? 😉

We will be open again on Wednesday afternoon January 31st from 3pm – 5:30 PM. But we have so much to do around the farm that there’s a distinct possibility we might not open every Wednesday this season. Please sign up for our email newsletter at artfarmllc.com, or check our Facebook on a weekly basis. Know before you go.

Wednesday farmstand = loads and loads of tomatoes!

Tons of cherry tomatoes, slicer tomatoes, cucumbers, a few heads of lettuce, bunched cooking greens, bunched arugula, carrots, big gnarly radishes you can cook up like potatoes, lots of baby ginger and baby turmeric, Italian basil, garlic chives, dill, a few bunches of cilantro and parsley, yellow seasoning peppers, a few sweet green bell and poblano peppers, assorted pumpkin slices, and the highlight: bunched broccoli! All this cold weather and wind is making the broccoli happy!

Thanks to all our fantastic customers who brought donations for Sejah Farm to our Saturday farmstand! The 15 farmers arrive tomorrow. And thanks to all of the wonderful and creative local chefs we have the honor of working with. And our superstar delivery guy this season, Sam. We love all you guys, you keep us smiling!

The parking lot has been packed lately. From our point of view, it’s not necessary for everyone to show up at 10am to get most all of what they’re looking for. Here’s the breakdown, feel free to come a little later!

Late-bird items we should have a good supply of, all the way until 12 noon (in the golden hour between 11am and 12 we usually only get two or three customers. It is nice and quiet and there are still PLENTY of goodies!): Salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, lots and lots of tomatoes and heirlooms, unbelievable amounts of cherry tomatoes, lots of cooking greens, huge amounts of baby ginger, baby turmeric, sweet bell peppers, carrots, dill, butternut squash and Thai pumpkin slices. This is also a great time of day to socialize your farmers and make sure that they don’t get too grouchy.

Earlier-bird items we will have a good bit of at 10am but probably won’t last past 11 o’clock: onions, SWEET POTATOES, cucumbers, lettuce heads, Italian basil, garlic chives, parsley, cilantro, sage, thyme, lemongrass, recao, seasoning peppers, Serano peppers, beets, radishes.

Crack-of-dawn-bird: And now for the things that will sell out quickly because we don’t have enough. (It is hard for Farmer Luca and his awesome team to grow this much variety AND grow large quantities of all of it. Some things we will unfortunately have less of from time to time.) This week on the shortlist is watermelon, and figs.

Just a reminder if you can bring any of the donation items listed below to help out Sejah Farm this week and next while they are hosting 15 farmers from the states in an effort to restore and rejuvenate their farm post-hurricane, you may bring them to us and we will deliver them; or bring them over to Sejah in person. Thank you!

Sejah Farms, Feed Fifteen Farmers

Clean bath towels: 20

Cornmeal in 2lb. yellow paper bag: 10 bags

Spaghetti noodles: 10 pack

Sugar: 20 lbs

Cooking oil large commercial size: 4

Vinegar, 1 gallon jugs: 5

Dawn dish liquid: 1 gallon

Hot cups: 1 case

Coffee

Coffee cream

Hot chocolate mix

Mash potato flakes: 20 box

White potato: 6 bags

Tea bags

Onions

Garlic

The meat/ protein which has to be purchased daily because of storage issues.

Fresh vegetables are also welcome.

Any wonderful soul who is willing to prepare (or purchase) a cooked dish for 20 people, please contact Yvette at (340)277-9392 and arrange a day and time.

Good luck Browne family we love you!!

Holy Heirlooms!! We have been saying that we don’t have time to run Wednesday afternoon farmstands and accomplish all our other post hurricane projects, BUT… we are in a tornado of tomatoes! We need your help to eat all these beautiful tomatoes!!

Pop-up Wednesday farmstand 3pm – 5:30pm will have: lots of slicing tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, lettuce heads, some cucumbers, green bell peppers, carrots, a few bunches of kale, dill, Italian basil, garlic chives, zinnia flowers, baby ginger, baby turmeric, and a few bunches of onions.

No promises we will be able to continue on Wednesdays, but we know the first hour on Saturdays have been pretty crowded and we still have lots of food! We’ll do what we can!

Love, ARTfarm

The crowds have been huge at ARTfarm on Saturdays with the demand for fresh local produce. We would love to see some of that traffic benefit other farmers on St. Croix as well, but many of them, like our friends at Sejah Farm, have been set back in their planting season by wet soil and damage from the hurricanes of 2017.

If you know Yvette Browne you know that she is creative, industrious, generous, and a huge advocate for farmers on St. Croix. She and her husband Dale consistently work to make things better for all farmers on St. Croix. In true form, she is taking on a daunting task: hosting (and feeding) 15 farmers for 10 days at Sejah Farm to try and jumpstart their recovery projects and get them back on their feet producing food for the territory. These visiting farmers in the course of a week and a half will be at Sejah Farm rebuilding their greenhouse and animal pens, planting, sowing seeds, fixing downed fences and installing new fencing, and working to restore breeding groups for the livestock.

ARTfarm will be donating fresh produce to Sejah for these farmers that are here to help. We would deeply appreciate if you, our customers, could bring any of the following supplies to the ARTfarm farmstand on or before Saturday morning. We will deliver them to Sejah!

Sejah Farm VI’s ’15 Farmer Project’: balance of supplies needed

Clean bath towels: 20

Cornmeal in 2lb. yellow paper bag: 10 bags

Spaghetti noodles: 10 pack

Sugar: 20 lbs

Cooking oil large commercial size: 4

Vinegar, 1 gallon jugs: 5

Dawn dish liquid: 1 gallon

Hot cups: 1 case

Coffee

Coffee cream

Hot chocolate mix

Mash potato flakes: 20 box

White potato: 6 bags

Tea bags

Onions

Garlic

The meat/ protein which has to be purchased daily because of storage issues.

Fresh vegetables are also welcome.

Any wonderful soul who is willing to prepare (or purchase) a cooked dish for 20 people, please contact Yvette at (340)277-9392 and arrange a day and time.

Good luck Browne family we love you!!