ARTfarm Saturday 10am-12noon

Tomato pie… Our friend’s delicious recipe coming soon in Monday’s post.

We are at the very peak of our tomato season, literally harvesting hundreds and hundreds of pounds each week. Saturday farmstand tomato fun continues with all types of tomatoes in very large quantities. We’ll have tomatoes til’ the end of the farmstand Saturday morning, and don’t be surprised if you get home and find a few extra red rascals have been slipped into your bag by the farmstand fairies!

We have: loads of fresh sweet salad mix, teen arugula and teen spicy salad mix in the cooler, romaine-lettuce-like heads, watermelon, scallions, the first of our onions, baby French radishes, carrots, hopefully a few bunches of beets, plenty of fresh herbs including dill, cilantro, parsley, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, garlic chives, beautiful baby ginger and baby turmeric, sweet papaya, all of our small peppers both hot and sweet including beautiful seasoning peppers, a few heads of broccoli, cooking greens, dandelion greens, a little bit of escarole, Thai pumpkin, butternut, Guatemala blue winter squash, and zinnia flowers. Earlybirds will get their pick of the limited supply of figs and cucumbers.

See you down the South Shore 10 AM to 12 noon. Thank you for your support!

CORN!! Baby Spicy Wednesday 3-4:30pm

baby spicy salad mix
Baby spicy is our super young salad mix of mustard and arugula varieties with a bit of baby Chinese cabbage. Enjoy its mild wasabi-like flavor as a standalone salad or a garnish.

UPDATE: Farmer Luca may have slightly underestimated the amount of sweet corn we have available today. Please come and help us enjoy the bounty! No GMO’s, people!

The sweet corn we are growing at ARTfarm is a Hawaiian hybrid variety. It is deeeelicious! And we usually only have it for very short bursts of time.

Wednesday afternoon ARTfarm shopping: sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, loads and loads and loads of tomatoes including lots of heirlooms, cherry tomatoes; watermelon, lots of fresh figs, cooking greens, dandelion greens, endive, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, French breakfast radishes, carrots, Thai pumpkin, butternut, all of our assorted spicy and sweet small peppers, and zinnias. Early birds will get cucumbers and sweet corn.

This mindblowing spread of diversity is grown here at the ARTfarm, using sustainable methods, fewest possible inputs, closing loops, minimizing machinery use, pulling from over 20 years of farming experience to keep it all as organic as possible.

Pop-up Monday ‘Maters 3-4:30pm

A customer’s selection of our heirloom and slicer tomatoes was so lovely we had to snap a picture right on the scale!

Monday farmstand: Tomato happiness continues, with all types of tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, a little bit of sweet salad mix, lots of lettuce heads, endive, Italian basil, Thai pumpkin, turmeric and ginger, seasoning peppers and hot chilies, and early bird watermelon.

Please note: this is not a big farmstand, we are not able to harvest our full diversity of products on Mondays. We are just moving ‘maters on Mondays! Thank you so much.

ARTfarm Healthy Lifestand 10am – 12noon

Seasoning peppers are pungent little packages of intense fruity pepper flavor with no (or extremely mild) heat. They look like scotch bonnets, and some folks assume that’s what they are, but these things have all the fragrance of the scotch bonnet with none of the pain factor. They ‘taste like the Caribbean’, as Farmer Luca likes to say. They are amazing to add to all kinds of dishes and sauces, and impart a smoky kind of flavor.

One of the great secrets to really tasty food preparation is just to start with really good fresh ingredients. If you do that, you can keep things very simple and they will taste incredible.

This Saturday’s farmstand, 10am – 12noon: welcome to February! Tomato incredibleness continues, with even more heirlooms (please don’t squeeze), loads of fresh sweet salad mix, teen arugula, baby ‘almost micro’ spicy salad mix, tons of figs, beautiful seasoning peppers, sweet bell peppers, assorted spicy hot peppers, no-peel baby ginger and turmeric, lettuce heads, various cooking greens, dandelion greens, endive, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, a few bunches of parsley, sage, French breakfast radishes, baby carrots, butternut squash, Thai pumpkin (so so so good with edible skin), and zinnia flowers.

Early birds will also choose from a few bunches of scallions and onions, some watermelon, some cucumbers, and the first of our Hawaiian sweet corn.

See you in the morning!