Your Free 2019 Guide to ARTfarm Farmers

Just to clear things up, these are not both Luca. Ha ha!

Happy New Year to all of you beautiful wonderful farm supporters. We wish you the most amazing, healthy and rewarding 2019. See above visual aid for your free ‘field’ guide to the ARTfarm farmers!

We’ll be open tomorrow, Wednesday, from 3 – 4:30 PM on the South Shore. We’ve got a bumper haul of watermelon in pink, yellow and red!

Also: Lots and lots of sweet salad mix, TEENY TINY baby almost micro arugula, baby almost micro spicy salad mix, arugula, good amounts of tomatoes, lots of cherry tomatoes, loads of butternut squash in sizes small and XL, lots of baby ginger and baby turmeric (so tender you can just wash well and don’t bother peeling), boc choi, various types of cooking greens, lettuce heads, petite sweet and crunchy ‘chrysanthemum’ Kiku Japanese melons, a few cucumbers, lots and lots of Mediterranean figs, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, Serrano peppers, chili peppers, a few bell peppers, lots of gorgeous zinnias, and a fresh batch of Fiddlewood Farm goat cheese from Bethany!

Thanks to all of our customers for being so patient. We wouldn’t be here without you, and we value your time and appreciate that you do spend a little bit of time waiting in line to shop and to check out. Because our fruits and vegetables do not have barcodes and are often sold by weight, we do have to total you up the old-fashioned way. We plan to keep two checkout lines open for the busy times at all farmstands until the end of the high season.

Farmer Luca is starting to feel a bit better after a bit of a health crisis this past month. Many thanks to our awesome team of employees, family, friends and volunteers who have really picked up the slack and given him an opportunity to rest and heal. A farm is a tremendous amount of work, dedication and long, long hours. Thank you for all the love and well wishes as he continues on the path to recovery.

Love, ARTfarm

The Big Wind Blows… Saturday 10am – 12 noon

Double rainbows galore yesterday on the farm! Thanks to supervols Nick, Chuppie, Maggie and Ana for helping us transplant veggies in the afternoon squalls!

Seas are churned up! These cool winter squalls are dropping a little rain – and a lot of rainbows – on the island. Strong gusts up to 35-40mph over the last couple of days are causing tarps to fly on the farm and even pushed over a sculpture in our gardens.

All this plus salad mix, fresh herbs, cooking greens, hot peppers, fruit and more!

For Saturday morning we will harvest: sweet salad mix, bunched arugula, spicy salad mix, beautiful crunchy sweet cucumbers, slicer tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, lots of beautiful baby ginger, bell peppers, Thai chili peppers and Serano peppers, various cooking greens, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, holy basil, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, butternut squash. For dessert: fresh ripe figs, red and yellow watermelon, Japanese chrysanthemum Kiku melons, papayas. For the table: zinnia flowers. And don’t forget fresh local goat cheese from Fiddlewood Farms!

Enjoy!

Boxing Day Farmstand!

Every holiday season, Larissa‘s mother sends her to ARTfarm to get banana leaves for her amazing homemade pastelles.

Wednesday 3-4:30! ARTfarm will have sweet salad mix, arugula, spicy salad mix, cucumbers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, figs, some watermelon, cooking greens, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, holy basil, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, butternut, zinnia flowers, lots of beautiful baby ginger, and Serrano peppers.

Enjoy the season! Hope to see you down the south shore!

‘Santa’rday Farmstand

A ‘wreath’ of spicy peppers at ARTfarm.

Last chance to get fresh delicious gifts for everyone on your Xmas list! We will be open Saturday the 22nd, and again on the 26th, Wednesday, Boxing Day!

Ho-ho-holiday haul: Lots of sweet salad mix, lots of arugula and spicy salad mix, loads of cucumbers, more slicer tomatoes, a few pints of cherry tomatoes, lots of butternut in entertaining sizes, radishes, cooking greens, dandelion greens, baby bok choi, some sweet tree-ripened figs, some yellow and red watermelon, lots of Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, holy basil, a good amount of cilantro and dill, zinnia flowers, serrano peppers and cayennes and tiny super spicy chile peppers and beautiful baby ginger, super thin skin no need to peel!

Bethany will be swinging by with a fresh batch of Fiddlewood Farm goat cheese! Treat yourself or a friend!

Lots of love to you and yours,

ARTfarm

Our sweet salad mix is gently press-packed for freshness. Each bag is around half a pound and expands to fill your salad bowl!
It’s watermelon season! Red and yellow varieties!
Tomatoes are slowly ripening, more watermelon, crunchy sweet cukes, and buttery butternut squashes.
The center table in the farmstand holds a wide variety of cooking greens, some fresh lettuces, and root vegetables. We have some beautiful onions as well but did not have time to harvest them. Beets and carrots to come later in the season!

We are growing lots of two kinds of cucumbers this season. The asian type are a little more pointy at the ends and have a very tender skin.
Don’t forget fresh herbs for healing teas and seasoning your food! Beautiful dill and cilantro, different types of basil, garlic chives and more!
Farm volunteer Jen V setting out the cherry tomato pints, fresh figs, some chicken eggs, baby ginger, peppers and flowers.