EMF-Free ARTfarm Open Saturday 10am-12noon!

These heirloom yellow fleshed watermelons are outrageous! We are also having a bumper crop of figs after a couple years of not so great production. We think the figs like the full water tables we are experiencing after the flooding Hurricane Maria rains!

We may not have current, but we are far from ‘powerless’! Bounty begins for the season! Sweet salad mix, red and green leaf lettuce heads, lots of slicing tomatoes, a few heirloom tomatoes, lots of cherry tomatoes, lots of fresh crunchy sweet just-picked cucumbers, lots of green bell peppers, baby ginger, baby turmeric, baby carrots, onions, various plethora of cooking greens, two kinds of butternut squash, radishes, Italian basil, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, parsley, holy basil, lemongrass, red fleshed watermelon, Sakata sweet melons, and lots of figs!

We had a fantastic farmstand last Saturday. With the customer entrance area under repair, we are still setting up tables in the parking lot. We started with a full pickup bed of produce, and everything was gone except for a few cucumbers by the end. It seems like just about every one of our familiar customers stopped by (including several chefs!), thank you so much everyone! It gives us such a lift to see that people appreciate our efforts. We have suddenly raised over $20,000 (thanks to one large anonymous donor!!!) on our GoFundMe campaign (total goal of $23,000) and are moving ahead with rebuilding our seedling house, and seeking help designing an off grid power system for the farm refrigeration units.

We still have not gotten electricity back on the South Shore. We are guessing it might be spring before we get our grid power restored here at the far end of feeder 3A. We have frankly been enjoying the starry skies at night without the sodium-vapor glare of the streetlights. If anyone with their current restored has extra solar lights they are willing to pass on, our farm workers could use them so they can stop stubbing their toes on the furniture at night.

Speaking of farmworkers, Roi is back! We were so happy to have our familiar friend return. He will be here for a month or two working on restoring gates and fences that were damaged in the hurricane.

We have also welcomed newcomer Todd to the farm this winter. He is a vegan farmer with a big heart from Boulder Colorado who wanted to come down and offer some hurricane relief volunteer work. He loves St. Croix’s reggae music and is excited to learn about subtropical farming techniques!

Saturday Sunny Sweetness! Figs & Cherries! Salad Mix & Cukes!

First big harvest of cherry tomatoes for the season along with a nice harvest of figs. Figs are amazing on pizza, by the way.
Our various heirloom watermelon vines are very productive right now!
The fig trees are suddenly pushing out a whole bunch of fruit! If you have never tried a fresh Mediterranean fig, you are in for some serious hurricane relief!
Sunny days means we have backup power to run the refrigerators, so there will be sweet mix tomorrow (on Saturday)!!

Starting at 10am we’ll have: sweet salad mix, tons of cucumbers, loads of lettuce heads, lots of bunched cooking greens, two kinds of butternut squash, more and more cherry tomatoes, the first few slicing tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, baby carrots, lots of radishes, fresh herbs including Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, cilantro, Italian parsley and garlic chives, baby ginger, baby turmeric, lots of heirloom red and yellow fleshed sweet watermelon, lots of Sakata sweet crunchy mini-honeydew melons, and the first bumper crop of two varieties of figs!

Crazy cool! Like these lovely December mornings! Looking forward to seeing you all in the morning: S. Shore Rd. at the stone cattle pens, 10 AM-12 noon! Growing good food organically since 1999!

ARTfarm is OPEN Saturday 10am-12 noon…Meloncholy

Things have been quiet! Come out and keep Farmer Luca company!
We’ve got luscious melons! Yellow flashed watermelons and sweet green mini honeydews
Saturday, December 9: For the early birds: the first of our cherry tomatoes, the first few bunches of cooking greens, yellow fleshed watermelons, a few Sakata sweet Japanese melons. AND for late birds we will have lots of crisp lettuce heads, cucumbers, radishes, baby carrots, onions, green sweet bell peppers, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, parsley, lemongrass, baby ginger, baby turmeric, two different types of butternut squash.

For your restoration efforts, we have pineapple slips for planting, and of course plenty of native trees to re-plant our island!

For all birds: We still have some free Caribbean birdseed left! 

ARTfarm Open Saturday 10am – 12 noon

Saturday farmstand: come out for tons of cucumbers, lettuce heads, a little bit of sweet salad mix, Italian basil, lemon basil, dill, garlic chives, cilantro, parsley, the first of our onions, radishes, a few Sakata melons, baby turmeric, baby ginger, and lemongrass! 10am – 12 noon down the South Shore!