ARTfarm is open 3–6 p.m. today, Wednesday: Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, baby spicy, baby arugula, microgreens, dill, cilantro, garlic chives, carrots, onions, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, slicer tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, bicolor tomatoes, kale, dandelion greens, broccoli greens, and an assorted variety of chili peppers. And fresh Mediterranean figs!
Here is your art for Wednesday: detail from mixed-media watercolor, “Pine and Such” by Luca Gasperi. 
Lots of goodies today, including a new kind of tomato; but first, your Q and A:
Q: Farmer Luca, why do you have so many sizes of lettuce? There’s micro, baby, teen and regular. What gives?
A: We harvest our greens at different ages, several times a week. The youngest greens, micro and baby, are only a couple of weeks old with tiny leaves, and are tender and mild in flavor (some customers say with concentrated nutritional value). They take up more garden space than mature lettuce for the amount harvested, and require more gentle handling in harvesting and processing. Microgreens can only be cut once, but baby greens can be harvested a few times from the same planting.
Teen greens are at a growth stage between baby and mature size, so they are priced in the middle. Teen greens, like baby, can be cut more than one time per planting.
Mature lettuces require the most weeding and watering, and they also produce the most harvestable material per foot of garden bed. Like the microgreens, they can only be harvested once. Harvested at about six weeks old, the flavor of mature lettuce can shift on a continuum from sweet to bitter through the season as weather conditions change in the garden.
We offer all these different sizes because it’s fun to have choices. One size does not fit all! Variety is a delight to the eye and to all the senses.
And that is probably more than you ever wanted to know about the sizes of ARTfarm salad greens. 
Today’s ARTfarm Monday, 3–6 p.m.: Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, cooking greens, sweet bell peppers, lots of fresh award-winning carrots, cherry tomatoes, large tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, ***NEW!!!*** BI-COLOR TOMATOES***, cilantro, parsley, chili peppers, fresh Mediterranean figs, ice cream from I-Sha!
For your consideration: Lots of impossibly good-looking tomatoes, and mountains of carrots today! Open 10 AM – 12 noon, on the South Shore. Also starring: Sweet salad mix, arugula, spicy salad mix, microgreens, kale, collards, sweet potato greens, asian water spinach, fennel, sweet bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, large tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, radishes, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, holy basil, cilantro, parsley, thyme, dill, garlic chives, onions, chili peppers, zinnia flowers, fresh Mediterranean figs, bread from Tess, ice cream from I-Sha!
Today, from 3–6 p.m. on South Shore Rd.: Microgreens, sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, arugula, lots of cherry tomatoes, big tomatoes, and heirloom tomatoes… radishes, onions, carrots, beets, broccoli, kale, cooking greens, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, hot chili peppers of various types, caimitos (white star apples), key limes, and I-Sha’s vegan coconut milk ice cream in banana, mango, passionfruit, and carrot flavors! Woot!
… And here is your Art Wednesday fix:
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 