If you missed us on Wednesday, come out Saturday to ARTfarm for more tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, cooking greens, chocolates, our new reusable bags, local honey and other little treats and stocking stuffers! Merry merry!
Happy Solstice from ARTfarm… Tomatoes galore at the farmstand today!
For today’s farmstand at 3pm we have boatloads of tomatoes in holiday colors, a pineapple or two for a lucky early bird, and fresh greens to go with them! Herbs, salad mixes, cucumbers, flowers, all our amazing fresh stuff…
In 2012 we are going to move away from the use of plastic grocery bags at our farmstand. For years we have had a revolving system where customers bring in their clean grocery bags and share them with each other for their shopping. We figure if our customers have a snazzy and convenient, strong and roomy reusable, washable shopping bag to use here at ARTfarm AND at the grocery store, none of us will feel justified in picking up all those bags at the grocery store, and we can end the plastic grocery bags’ carbon footprint and inevitable journey to the landfill.
To make it easy to switch, we have some stylish reusable shopping bags for sale at the farmstand today, with a great ARTfarm design on it — for less than the cost of a tee shirt. They stuff down tiny to fit in your bag, and are lightweight with a little snap so you can even keep it on your keychain. Throw them in the laundry to wash. They’d make great holiday gifts and stocking stuffers – so cute!
Happy Solstice! And YES, we will be open Christmas Eve morning!!
Tomatoes…and introducing our new pasture management team.
We are now at the point in the season where we put up the giant “TOMATOES” sign, and you’ll start to see our cherry tomatoes in local fine dining establishments!
Saturday morning’s stand will also include fresh microgreens, sweet mix, spicy mix, teen spicy, a plethora of varied cooking greens, herbs including some new ones for this season (sage! holy basil!) and your old favorites (delfino cilantro, italian, lemon and thai basils, thyme, caribbean oregano, lemongrass, garlic chives, and giant scallions!)…cucumbers, lettuce heads, and of course giant zinnia flowers, chocolates and a few baked treats!
Please call or let us know at the stand, if you’d like to special order fresh local meats: chicken (half or whole), lamb or goat (leg, roast, cut for stew).
ARTfarm gift certificates are beautiful and make a thoughtful gift.
And in other exciting farm news, our Livestock Manager has acquired five experienced new employees (pictured above) who are charged with improving our pastures and keeping things nicely trimmed around the farm. Please join us in welcoming Coco, Sleepy, Yooyoo, Whoopsie and Nobby. They’re all expecting! Christina plans to bring them out to visit at the farmstand after they’ve had a chance to get accustomed to their new home and the staff.
Come visit the ARTfarm!
ARTfarm Saturday, 10am-12 noon! Cukes as sweet as candy bars!
Our cucumbers are so sweet you will eat them like candy bars!! Also: Baby spicy greens, sweet and spicy mixes, arugula, lettuce heads; italian, thai, lemon and holy (tulsi) basils, lemongrass, garlic chives, dill, cilantro; kale, collards, chinese cabbage, red mustard greens, chicory, endive; purple yard long beans, papaya, carambola (star) fruit, avocado, mesple, cherry tomatoes, a few slicer tomatoes, and fresh coconuts cut to order! Also zinnia flowers, local raw honey and delicious Sweetface chocolates in a plethora of essential flavors!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 