ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI

Wednesday farmstand: tomato insanity continues: beautiful heirloom tomatoes varieties like Hawaiian Pineapple and Pruden’s Purple will be available, plus loads of cherry tomatoes and slicing tomatoes, sweet salad mix and what everyone has been waiting for: lots of baby arugula, lots of baby spicy salad mix,

Japanese cucumbers, yellow and hopefully some pink watermelon, carrots, onions, scallions, Italian basil, holy basil, cilantro, parsley, dill, garlic chives, mint, assorted cooking greens, a few broccoli bunches, all of our assorted chili peppers, our seasoning peppers, baby ginger, baby lime ginger, baby turmeric, baby mango turmeric, sunflower shoots, red noodle beans, green beans, and zinnia flowers.

Wow!

Long story short, Monday farmstand 3 to 4:30pm: all our awesome tomatoes, all of our seasoning and spicy peppers, baby ginger, baby turmeric, small amounts of sweet salad mix, assorted herbs, and fig trees for sale!

We are now on the slow but steady downward decline of the tomato harvest for the season. The season was epic. There are some ‘seconds’ tomatoes available in bulk amounts for canning, if anyone is interested in a whole box of tomatoes. See you in the afternoon!

Saturday farmstand tomato whirlwind continues on the South Shore! The January rain made the plants go nuts and Farmer Luca is picking tomatoes every day! We’ve got all types of tomatoes in all sizes, plus bulk quantities of sauce/canning tomatoes available at the end of the farmstand (starting at 11:30 AM), PLUS everything to go with your tomatoes: loads of sweet salad mix, teen spicy salad mix, Bob’s mildly spicy microgreens, lots of Japanese cucumbers, assorted cooking greens like kale, collards, broccoli greens and dandelion greens, crazy carrots, a few radishes, onions with giant green heavenly tops, scallions, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, mint, lemongrass, flat leaf parsley, baby ginger, baby turmeric, baby mango turmeric, zucchini, red noodle yard long Asian beans, green beans, more seasoning peppers, all of our spicy peppers, watermelon for early birds, zinnia flowers, and goat cheese from Fiddlewood Farm!!!

We are seeing red (and yellow and sort of pinkish and green with stripes… And those little school bus yellow cherry tomatoes…)

Wednesday ARTfarmstand. Tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes TOMATOES!! Loads of cherry tomatoes, loads of slicing tomatoes, loads of heirloom tomatoes! To go with them: Beautiful Japanese cucumbers, yellow and red fleshed watermelon varieties, zucchini, green beans, red noodle beans, sweet salad mix, teen arugula, teen spicy salad mix, sunflower shoots, carrots, radishes, scallions, Italian basil, holy basil, lemon basil, dill, cilantro, flat leaf parsley, garlic chives, mint, lemongrass, baby ginger, baby turmeric, baby mango turmeric, assorted seasoning peppers (tons of flavor no heat), all of our spicy peppers (In order from least to most heat: ancho/poblanos, serranos, big fat jalapeños, cayennes, Thai chilis), broccoli (the last harvest of this amazing crop from this season), kale, dandelion greens, other cooking greens, zinnia flowers and goat cheese from Fiddlewood Farm. 

We will have two cashiers to move customers through quickly, and please know that we will have plenty of tomatoes and sweet salad mix til 4:30, the end of the farmstand, along with assorted cooking greens, herbs, cukes and other treats. So if you can’t come early don’t stress out – we will have food for you.

Love,

ARTfarm

P.S. The St. Croix Orchid Society’s 49th Show opens this Friday, February 21st 2020, 3 to 5 p.m. in the Great Hall at The Botanical Garden of the VI. There’s an amazing lineup of workshops starting at 1:30 on Friday to introduce and familiarize participants with the orchids native to our islands. Workshops continue on Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 and 1:30 each day – introducing participants to growing orchids semi-hydroponically, successful cultivation of Paphiopedilums, Phaeleonopsis Dendrobiums and creating the right environment for all your orchids!

Admission is $5 for adults. Five vendors will be on hand selling beautiful plants and orchid growing supplies. There will also be raffles with chances to win plants and the beautiful original watercolor by Toni Lance that’s on this year’s poster. Saturday hours are 9 to 5. Sunday hours are 9 to 3. Come out and enjoy the Garden and the hundreds of blooms on display!