Saturday Shift 10am – 12 noon

Experimental amaranth crop glows like flames in the afternoon light.
Bees appreciate the sunflowers we planted this season.
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!

Your Wednesday ARTfarm Riddle, Open  3 – 5:30 PM today

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! 

ARTfarm Saturday Lettuce Mix Madness 10am – 12 noon!

Beautiful zinnias at ARTfarm
More welcome rains have arrived to cool things off after a brushfire scare over last weekend. So grateful for the rapid and professional response of the VI Fire Service last Saturday afternoon, and for the influx of moisture from the skies. We are seeing the lettuce heads get big and crispycrunchy quickly. 

Our neighbor Jimmy will be back this week again with more of his USDA inspected pasture raised local South Shore lamb, including ground lamb, boneless shoulder, leg of lamb, chops and more! 

ARTfarm has fresh harvested sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, lots of cherry tomatoes, a good amount of slicer and heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, assorted pumpkin, sweet potatoes, lots of papaya, Italian basil, garlic chives, cilantro, green coriander, dill, parsley, recao, lemongrass, ginger root, turmeric, dandelion greens, a few bunches of kale, onions, scallions; peppers in all colors, shapes, sizes and temperatures – yellow seasoning peppers, Indian chilies, serranos, ancho peppers, pasilla bajia; a few fat Mediterranean figs, and lots of zinnia flowers! 

Local honey from Errol Chichester and fresh local mild and creamy goat cheese from Dr. Bethany Bradford’s Fiddlewood Farm. 
Come out to the South Shore between 10 AM and 12 noon to catch some of this goodness and bring it home for your family!

Wet Wednesday 3-5:30pm

Caribbean morning rain on kale. A beautiful sight.
Beautiful rain is coming down this morning, cooling things off in brushfire season. We are really grateful to get this moisture! 

The pumpkins this season have been rich and dry. We sometimes slice them thin and eat them raw. They are just incredibly flavorful. The rinds are thin and can be eaten cooked.
Today’s afternoon lineup, open 3 – 5:30 PM on the South Shore Road: Sweet salad mix, lots of it, and a little bit of baby arugula and baby and teen spicy salad mixes. Lots of tomatoes, all types: cherry tomatoes, heirlooms, slicers; cucumbers, two types of radishes, pumpkins, loads of sweet papaya, lots of different hot and spicy peppers, scallions, onions, cilantro, dill, chives, recao, parsley, a few bunches of kale, dandelion greens, lots of beautiful young ginger and turmeric root, a few bags of figs, and lots of zinnia flowers. From Fiddlewood Farm we have local fresh mild goat cheese, Yellow Door Farm may bring us a few surprises, and we’ve got Errol’s honey. It’s that bounteous time of year! Enjoy.