ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI

See you in the morning, folks: Lots of sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, tomatoes of all types, a few cucumbers, loads of papaya, some sweet potato, butternut squash, cooking greens, young French breakfast radishes, very mature Asian radish, beets, onions, scallions, cilantro, dill, parsley, bell peppers and all our other spicy and seasoning peppers, ginger root, turmeric, figs. And beautiful colorful zinnias. 10am – 12 noon Saturdays and 3 – 5:30pm Wednesdays, see you at the farm!

Hang onto your hats! This gustery, blustery weather has brought some almost two inches of blessed rain that has taken incessant south shore/east brushfires out of the equation for a few days. The farmers (and VIFS) will be able to relax and sleep better for a bit – under blankets, it’s freeeeezing! 

The cool and wet weather is going to give a boost to some crops but it will take a couple of weeks before some of those items (cucumbers, pumpkins, watermelons) are harvested. So look for a little dip in production now, followed by another bump. 

Wednesday harvest: Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, cherry tomatoes, big tomatoes, a few cucumbers, lots of papaya, lots of figs, onions, scallions, recao, dill, cilantro, parsley, garlic chives, ginger, turmeric, assorted peppers, a few bunches of cooking greens, radishes, zinnia flowers, and honey from Errol! And someone’s black umbrella from Saturday. 😉

Just like that, there seems to be a real shift in the season. In a short span of time we’ve gone from cool crisp rainy winter bumper-crop weather to parched dryness, constant winds and brushfires. Our tomatoes are getting a little bit smaller, and dry season plants are putting out blooms as the landscape transforms back into desert. Flavors get stronger. Quantities will reduce as we shift from farming to fire prevention. 

Saturday morning treats: Lots of sweet salad mix, good amounts of baby spicy salad mix, loads of tomatoes, loads of cherry tomatoes, a few cucumbers, a few bunches of carrots, a few sweet potatoes, peppers (sweet bell, seasoning and hot varieties), large Asian radishes, a few bunches of beets, baby ginger and turmeric root, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, parsley, Italian basil, lots of papaya, good quantities of figs, a few bunches of cooking greens, onions, scallions, and zinnia flowers.

If you see a brushfire or smoke, even on land that appears fallow or uninhabited, please call 911 immediately and report it. If it’s within a mile or two of ARTfarm, call or text us second and let us know. Thank you!

What has two humps and drinks very little water? The ARTfarm on a Wednesday in March, of course! 

It’s hump day (more than halfway through the week), and March is marching in! Our seventh season on the South Shore is more than half over! Brushfires and windy weather are starting to indicate the beginning of the end of the tomato time for this year, so come and enjoy the sweet spheres of juiciness while you can. The plants are starting to feel the summer weather on its way and harvests will start to lessen somewhat in the next month or two.

Today, though, we have lots of beautiful rain-fed, sun-sweetened, juicy and crunchy veggies we grew just for you: Sweet salad mix, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, loads of sweet papaya, radishes, garlic chives, Italian basil, dill, cilantro, parsley, scallions, ginger, serrano peppers, Indian chili peppers, yellow seasoning peppers, figs, zinnia flowers, and Errol’s honey and Fiddlewood Farm mild goat cheese! Slide into your weekend with a kitchen full of good healthy stuff!