ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI

Well, this is probably old news but have you seen the 20th annual Taste of St. Croix poster image that Farmer Luca painted of Dale and Yvette Browne? Pretty awesome.

Wednesday farmstand 3-4:30pm: tons of sweet salad mix, loads of teen arugula and teen spicy salad mix, mature arugula and mature spicy salad mix, heirloom tomatoes and slicing tomatoes (cracked but still yummy), lots of cherry tomatoes (more than we’ve had yet), multiple varieties of cucumbers, watermelon, broccoli, lots of different cooking greens, red yard-long beans, green beans, zucchini, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, mint, assorted chili peppers, the first few seasoning peppers, baby ginger, baby mango turmeric, baby red turmeric, young carrots, scallions, dandelion greens, zinnia flowers and for the early birds we will have figs!!! For the grammarians, we have merely this confession, that the penultimate sentence in this post was an extremely long run-on specimen, and yet doesn’t life just feel like that sometimes!?

Be greedy with the greens, folks!  We have tons and tons of salad greens so feel free to sleep in and come by the farm close to 12. We also have a great haul of cherry tomatoes, lots of beautiful cucumbers, now is the time to grab a healthy haul.

Farmer Luca wants you to know that cooking greens are tender and exceptionally easy to prepare. Chop them, rinse them and drain them like you would salad greens, and then drop them into whatever you’re cooking. They cook very quickly and add intense amounts of nutrients to your meal!

Here’s the master list for the morning: lots and lots of sweet salad mix, teen arugula, adult arugula, teen spicy salad mix, adult spicy salad mix, heirloom tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, lots more cherry tomatoes, multiple types of cucumbers, zucchini, lots of cooking greens, dandelion greens, baby bok choy, broccoli leaves, a small amount of broccoli, kale in a few varieties, Chinese cabbage, bunched arugula, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, mint, beautiful carrots, scallions, radishes, all of our assortment of chili peppers including yellow cayennes, baby ginger, baby turmeric, mango turmeric, zinnia flowers, and for the early birds we will have figs and hopefully the beginning of our larger harvest of watermelon. As promised, we will also have Fiddlewood Farm goat cheese tomorrow!

Wednesday farmstand list: Sweet salad mix, teen spicy salad mix, teen arugula, adult arugula, microgreens, loads of cucumbers (four varieties to choose from), slicing tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes (harvest is rebounding), radishes, young carrots, scallions, zucchini, baby ginger, baby turmeric, baby mango turmeric, Italian basil, holy basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, dill, cilantro, mint, garlic chives, all of our assorted chili peppers, lots of cooking greens including two types of kale, dandelion greens, broccoli greens, collards, baby bok choy, Chinese cabbage, bunched braising greens, green beans, watermelon, Mediterranean figs, and zinnia flowers! Farmers in witty T-shirts! Everything you need!

Farmer Luca says Erma Gerdnersh! we will have salad greens and slicing tomatoes all the way to the end of the farmstand so don’t panic if ya can’t get here right at 3 o’clock!!

ARTfarm Saturday with gusty winds up to 21 miles an hour! Wowzers! Hang onto your hat!

We will have plenty of our fresh sweet salad mix, lots of baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, teen arugula, mature arugula, tasty heirloom tomatoes, slicer tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, assorted cucumbers, scallions, carrots, yellow and green zucchini, three types of kale, collards, dandelion greens, baby bok choy, broccoli raab greens, all of our assorted spicy peppers, beautiful baby ginger, baby turmeric, baby mango turmeric, Italian basil, Thai basil, mint, rosemary, garlic chives, lemon basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, large radishes, green beans, a few turnip bunches, unreal shades of extra bright zinnia flowers, and lastly figs!!!

From Fiddlewood Farm we have fresh goat cheese and goat feta cheese!!