ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI

Some of our helpers who came in early today told us that there is still some roadside flooding this morning after last night’s rain (we measured slightly over 2 inches here at Longford). Please take your time on the roadways, but rest assured we are open with lots and lots of great produce today! Looking forward to seeing you all!



After the hard rains we had over the past few weeks, the plants at ARTfarm are now offering the result: lots and lots of beautiful fruit! Farmer Luca and Co. harvested over 40 pineapples the other night and almost broke the harvest cart! We also have experienced a bit of a cherry tomato bump as well. We don’t usually have a glut of them at this time of year, more of a steadily decreasing trickle, so enjoy them while we have them! Other treats right now include papaya, watermelon, and even a few early dragonfruit! Get your fruit on!

Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad greens, loads of pineapple, loads of papaya, a few slicer tomatoes, a good bit of cherry tomatoes, a little bit of cucumbers, lots of beets, beautiful onions, radishes, cooking greens, dandelion greens, Italian basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, green coriander and fennel seed, recao, lemongrass, ginger root, turmeric, bell peppers, seasoning peppers, serrano peppers, chili peppers, watermelon, passionfruit, assorted pumpkins and miniature butternuts, and of course our beautiful sweet potatoes, big and small, and cut flowers. And Dr. Bradford is back! Hooray, lots of fresh creamy beautiful Fiddlewood Farm goat cheese from her alpine dairy goats up in the rainforest.

We have had to divert a good bit of our energy from farming to flood mitigation on the property, since we’ve already received several generous inches of precipitation. We will be open rain or shine tomorrow morning so please come out but bring an umbrella and a friend, and stay safe!

Well, that was a lot of rain. Sweet salad mix, less of baby spicy salad mix, teen arugula, all of our tomatoes (but we have less), lots of sweet papayas, sweet potatoes, lots of different types of pumpkin slices, onions, beets, radishes, Italian basil, dill, cilantro, parsley, recao, garlic chives, all of our peppers, dandelion greens, cooking greens, a few chunks of watermelon, pineapples, passionfruit, ginger, turmeric and zinnia flowers. 

All this rain is making us want to plant trees. If you feel the same way, we have some wonderful drought tolerant young lignum vitae trees for sale. They are a relatively small, slow growing, long lived dense evergreen (not messy) tree with amazingly beautiful light bluish-purplish flowers followed by bright red and yellow seedpods. We also have calabash tree seedlings for sale. They are a bit young yet but they will cost less at the smaller size. And of course pineapple slips are available. 

Happy Earth Day! It’s a great day to renew your commitment to conservation and sustainability: turn off lights, fans and a/c, remember your reusable bags and containers, buy less packaged stuff from far away, and reduce, reuse, repair, recycle! Also, Science March on the F’sted Pier this morning at 9am in congruence with the much larger one in Washington DC. 

Saturday from 10am to 12 noon we’ll have a similar lineup to this past Wednesday’s stand: Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, all of our tomatoes, extra cherry tomatoes, all of our peppers, beautiful big onions, beets, lots of young, tender but huge red-skinned orange fleshed sweet potatoes, Italian basil, dill, parsley, recao garlic chives, radishes, cooking greens, dandelion greens, loads of papaya, a few pineapples, sweet juicy watermelons, lots of pumpkin, a few passionfruit…and the return of the zinnias as well. Farmer Jimmy will be on hand with fresh lamb, but only for the first half hour or so. 

Look forward to seeing you! Love, ARTfarm