Easter Monday ARTfarmstand 3-5:30pm

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Hippity hoppity Easter Monday! Yes, we are one of the seven businesses open today on St. Croix! 😉

One word: Pineapples!!!!!!

Plus: all the usual herbs (the four basils, sage, thyme, garlic chives, dill, parsley, lemongrass), tomatoes, all peppers (hot, sweet bell, Trini seasoning), pumpkin, onions, yardlong purple Bodhi beans. Salad mixes galore: baby spicy, baby sweet, arugula, sweet mix, microgreens; and colorful bouquets of zinnias.

Come out and get some greens to go with all those colorful hard-boiled eggs you now have to eat!

Salad Saturday at ARTfarm

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Remember when it rained a lot a few weeks ago? We can now enjoy that precipitation in an abundance of salad greens!

For today’s stand, 10am – 12 noon, we’ll have: Microgreens, spicy mix and sweet mix; sweet bell peppers, hot peppers, small seasoning peppers; cooking greens including kale, collards and broccoli greens; fresh herbs including the Four Basils (Italian, holy, lemon, and Thai), garlic chives, lemongrass, sage, thyme; pumpkin, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, beets; and a rainbow of giant fuzzy zinnia flowers for your Easter table!

Happy spring!

Wednesday’s ARTfarmstand is Full of Variety

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Today is another “Everything” day at ARTfarm! 3-5:30pm: microgreens, baby greens, arugula, sweet mix, zinnia flowers; the four basic basils: Italian, holy, lemon and Thai; garlic chives, dill, parsley, sage, lemongrass, thyme, pumpkin, Bodhi beans, sweet bell peppers, hot peppers, beets, onions, cucumbers; cooking greens: chinese cabbage, kale, broccoli greens, arugula, mustard; discounted tomatoes, chocolates, and coconut-based non-dairy ice cream!

Building a Wattle Fence

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We’re experimenting with building a simple wattle fence at the farmstand entrance, using manjack posts and limbs from some fence clearing projects.

A wattle fence is one of the most ancient fence types, and uses no metal fasteners. At the end of its useful life it can be composted!

Our wattle fence will create a pleasant garden walkway for farmstand customers, a place for us to display potted native trees for sale, and an enclosure for our ducks.

Dave Mattera, one of our super volunteers, is spearheading the project on Saturday mornings. If you’d like to join him and learn this eco-friendly, 18th century skill, please feel free to join him! ARTfarm volunteers must be non-smokers, please.