Wednesday 3-4:30pm – Super Cool

Cool cucumbers and not hot seasoning peppers. Doesn’t this photo just give you a chill up your spine?

Wednesday farmstand – despite a few brief morning rain showers over the last few days, everything continues to dry up in the wind and heat but we have beautiful cool cucumbers available today!!

Three types of cucumbers, sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy, lots of heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, Thai pumpkin chunks, sweet potatoes, baby bok choy, carrots, baby ginger, all of our assorted peppers (hot and seasoning), papayas, small amounts of broccoli, lots of broccoli leaves, dandelion greens, garlic chives, Italian basil, cilantro, dill, Thai basil, lemon basil, and last but not least, the perfect little treat for these hot days…

…vegan coconut-based homemade ice cream from I-Sha’s ‘coconut creamery’. Yes, Chefs Feel I and Shalima actually ‘milk’ the coconuts, nothing comes from a can! All local fruits star in amazing and extremely local flavors like guava guavaberry, jojo plum, gooseberry, passionfruit mango, beet-ginger and more.

Last Pop-Up Monday (we think) 3-4:30pm

Our unbelievably sweet cherry tomatoes are one of our most sought-after items at ARTfarm.

Come and get sweet cherry tomatoes today!The grass is turning brown and crunchy! The continued heat and dry weather has greatly slowed down production of both tomatoes and lettuce. The wild abundance we have been experiencing is going to be reined in, with tomatoes getting smaller and flavors sharpened, as the plants get older and dry windy conditions prevail. We will be accordingly reducing our retail hours to Wednesdays from 3 to 4:30pm and Saturdays from 10am to 12 noon. Today will be our last Monday afternoon ‘pop-up’ farmstand for the season.

Today’s farmstand list: lots of cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes and slicer tomatoes, baby ginger, our seasoning peppers and spicy peppers, and earlybird sweet salad mix. Also, Feel I will bring more I-Sha vegan fruit ice cream in a rainbow of local fruit flavors.

We appreciate all the helpers at the ARTfarm, both the day and night shifts. A praying mantis hunts for destructive pests on a Cattley guava tree around 11pm last night.

Thanks for your support, everyone! Special thanks to our super volunteers at the farmstand and in the field who continue to help us keep it all going this season.

10am – 12 noon Saturday

Tomatoes continue in their abundance, with the dry weather increasing the flavor factor, wow. Lots and lots of heirloom tomatoes, lots of slicers, lots of cherry tomatoes. The highlight for Luca is the Hugel beds’ cucumber performance.

Saturday morning we will have the first harvest from the new cucumber patch. Sweet salad mix (take note: lettuces are stressed from the high winds and heat, so you may notice that the lettuce mix is a little bit stronger flavored than usual). Bunched arugula, French breakfast radishes, a few broccoli heads, lots of broccoli greens, lots of baby ginger, small amounts of sweet potato, Thai pumpkin chunks, baby turmeric, dandelion greens, escarole, Italian basil, cilantro, dill, parsley, onions, scallions, carrots, a few bunches of beets, all of our lovely seasoning peppers, all of our hot peppers, storm-planted papaya and a few zinnia flowers!

Luca just finished the poster image for the 19th annual Taste of St. Croix event, which (according to the press release we just saw) will be held in downtown Christiansted on Thursday, April 11, 2019. Contact the St. Croix Foundation to find out when tickets will become available! Registration for booths will start on Monday February 25th.

Wednesday Superflavor ARTfarm 3-4:30

Conditions are drying up quickly on the South Shore. This intensifies flavors, so come and taste tomatoes that are even sweeter!

Wednesday farmstand: loads of heirloom tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, sweet salad mix, arugula, spicy salad mix, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, Italian basil, Thai basil, baby ginger, baby turmeric, large butternut squash, assorted peppers (spicy and seasoning), dandelion greens, escarole, broccoli, and zinnias. Figs also!