ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI

For Wednesday 3-4:30pm, we will have everything you need to make the most delicious salad that you have ever eaten. Join us at 3 PM and feast your eyes upon: lots of beautiful sweet salad mix, cucumbers, sweet cherry tomatoes, heirloom and slicer tomatoes, seasoning and spicy type peppers, baby turmeric, Italian basil, Thai basil, garlic chives, dill, baby bok choy and escarole, goat cheese, sweet tamarind pods, and Feel I’s vegan ice cream.

Wednesday farmstands will soon be both a thing of the past AND something to look forward to for next season. In the next few weeks we will phase them out and look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday mornings only.

Here are your fresh faces:

ARTfarm Saturday cucumbers continue! Nice young sweet salad mix, teen spicy salad greens, arugula, loads and loads of cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, fresh harvested baby ginger and turmeric, all of our seasoning and spicy peppers, a small amount of green bell peppers, scallions, onions, lots of baby bok choy, dandelion greens, escarole, radishes, carrots, chunks of winter squash, Italian basil, dill, parsley, garlic chives, some fresh picked sweet tamarind pods, and a few papayas.

Fiddlewood Farms is back in action. We have fresh goat cheese today! And I-Sha’s vegan creamy coconut based ice creams in various local fruit flavors!

The ARTfarm is drying up like a forgotten piece of toast on a hot pan. It is dry and the unrelenting winds are like a hairdryer, causing the plants (and farmers) to shrivel and cry piteously. Tomatoes are getting smaller and everything is becoming an apocalyptic nightmare.

However, the Hugel beds are pumping out cucumbers with relentless optimism. They are green, juicy, crunchy and sweet. Cue the Superman music!

Enter SuperFarmer Luca, renewed by a meal of sweet cucumbers. He resumes feeding increased compost (homemade non-synthetic fertilizer) to our row crops, refreshing them in their hour of need and prolonging their lives on the edge of survival.

Wednesday farmstand 3-4:30pm: lots of heroic sweet salad mix, lots of cherry tomatoes at their peak of sweetness, and lots of beautiful life-saving thin skinned extra crunchy Asian cucumbers! Waning harvests of slicing tomatoes and heirlooms, yet loads of our four types of seasoning peppers, Thai chilies, Serrano peppers, baby ginger and turmeric, some large sweet potatoes, some very small butternut squash, Italian basil, Thai basil, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, scallions, baby carrots, radishes, dandelion greens, escarole, and broccoli leaves!!!!!!!! Whoooooooshhh!!!

South Shore Saturday morning 10am to 12 noon: sweet salad mix and arugula, beautiful thin skin no-peel Asian cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, lots of cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, sweet dry buttery (like a good avocado) Thai pumpkin chunks, Italian “Long of Naples” winter squash chunks, Italian basil, garlic chives, dill, Thai basil, loads of massive orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, all of our seasoning peppers and hot peppers, lots of baby ginger and baby turmeric, escarole, dandelion greens, scallions, onions, carrots, broccoli greens, baby bok choi, green papaya to eat green or allow to ripen (3-5 days).

There is superficial damage on the sweet potatoes from potato weevils, a subterranean pest that wiped out our crop last year. You may find a happy little weevil (who loves organically produced food as much as you do) as you clean and chop these potatoes. This will be the last crop of sweet potatoes from us for a couple of years. Rather than spray harmful pesticides, we will stop supplying the bugs their favorite food and wait for the weevil population to give up; and then we will replant this delicious crop.

Enjoy!