MAKE SALSA. ARTfarmStand Open 3-5:30, everyT’ing you need!!

Hope you are enjoying this bounteous time of year as we are. Beautiful little night rain showers are keeping our arid section of the island green and verdant! Come out and see us today for microgreens, sweet mix, spicy mix, baby spicy mix, broccoli greens, kale, escarole, endive, cabbage heads, beets (get them now before the caterpillars do!), cucumbers galore, green sweet bell peppers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, hot green cayenne peppers, purple long beans, scallions, onions, italian basil, lemon basil, holy basil, garlic chives, frilly cilantro, flat leaf cilantro and flat leaf parsley.

MAKE SALSA.

Luca’s recipe, according to taste:

A bunch of frilly cilantro
Lots of salt
One nice firm green tomato
A bunch of ripe slicer tomatoes
Garlic chives
Sweet peppers
Onion and or scallions
Vinegar or sour orange or lime
Optional green chile peppers

Chop it all up fine and enjoy it on your chips, beans&rice, in a sandwich with cilantro pesto, or just by the spoonful.

ARTfarm Stand OPEN 3-5:30pm, veggies and plants for sale!

Farmstand open this afternoon, 3-5:30pm! Beat the Saturday morning rush, visit ARTfarm during our Monday and Wednesday afternoon stands. Today we have microgreens, arugula, sweet mix, cherry tomatoes, big slicer tomatoes, heirlooms, lemon basil, Italian basil, dill, cilantro, sage, lots of cucumbers, lots of sweet peppers, cayenne peppers, Bodhi beans, cooking greens including escarole, kale, Chinese cabbage, papayas and zinnia flowers. Cherry tomato plants for sale and native trees!

Seaweed Salad

Sheep need certain trace minerals in their diet to thrive. You can give them minerals via a salt block purchased at a feed store, but we’re always trying to find ways to farm sustainably on St. Croix without importing things on big diesel-powered container ships.

On an online sheep forum we came across a shepherd in Maine who gives his sheep fresh seaweed from the beach. So we collected an assortment of wet and dry seaweeds from our local strand, and what do you know? The girls loved it!

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Saturday Microgreen Madness

Sorry we skipped a few updates this past week. We’ve been too busy farming to post, but we’re open rain or shine, Monday & Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings! Tomorrow morning, 10am-12 noon: Lots of microgeens!! Spicy mix, teen arugula, lots of cucumbers, cooking greens, lots of slicer, heirloom and cherry tomatoes, zinnia flowers, purple yard long bodhi beans, crunchy sweet red beets, onions, scallions, garlic chives, all the basil flavors, cilantro, parsley, and papayas.