Wednesdays will continue… until morale improves. 3pm

We’ve been growing fresh Mediterranean figs at ARTfarm for about seven years now. We’re having a nice bumper crop this season, probably thanks to all the heavy rains in November. They are sweet and delicate and incredible!

Happy Wednesday everyone! The bounty continues. From 3 PM until 4:30 PM, the farmstand will be open on the South shore.

We’ve got tons of tomatoes, plenty of sweet salad mix, loads of fresh figs, cooking greens, dandelion greens, endive, assorted lettuce heads, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, cilantro, garlic chives, dill, radishes, baby ginger, all of our assorted peppers (from super spicy to not hot), butternut and Thai pumpkin, and zinnia flowers. Earlybirds will also get watermelon and cucumbers, two crops that are starting to wane.

Anyone who might happen to be in St. Thomas Friday night (Feb. 1) should check out the opening of Seven Minus Seven gallery’s new exhibition ‘Debris Field,’ featuring St. Croix artists Mike Walsh and Farmer Luca Gasperi along with gallery owner Clay Jones showing sculpture, paintings and photography around the theme of hurricane recovery. Check out sevenminusseven.org for more information.

We just want to keep thanking all our amazing customers for your positivity, your unwavering support, your smiling faces (even when we open five minutes late because we are scrambling to get everything ready for you), and your persistence in coming all the way to see us. Thank you!

Pop-up Monday Farmstand 3-4:30pm

Everybody goes crazy for our hypersweet orangey-yellow cherry tomatoes. Usually mixed in with some rich plum tomatoes, some mellow purple black cherries, and a few little red ones.

Every now and again we have a burst of production that needs to find a home. Right now our tomatoes are ripening faster than anticipated, so despite our farmstand sales, liberal use of tomatoes in every dish, pizza eating every night and canning of tomatoes, we still have more than enough for an extra farmstand!

Monday 3-4:30pm at ARTfarm: lots of tomatoes all types including heirlooms, slicers, plums and those sweet little orangey-yellow cherry tomatoes, fresh harvested lettuce heads, butternut squash, baby ginger. Early birds will also find sweet salad mix, watermelon, Italian basil, I-Sha’s vegan ice cream, fewer crowds than usual, and perhaps a wisecrack from Farmer Luca.

This Monday afternoon stand will probably recur for a couple of weeks as we continue to experience this temporary bump in production.

As we have done for the last 18 years, everything that we grow is using or exceeding USDA organic production standards. We are not certified (too expensive and time-consuming) but our food is as sustainably grown as we know how to do, and we are always striving for new techniques and varieties that further reduce our footprint.

Thanks! We appreciate your support.

Eat More Tomatoes! Saturday 10am

Farmer Bob harvesting beautiful baby ginger

ARTfarm Saturday tomato extravaganza continues! We are currently testing tomato pie recipes, will share the winner with you soon!

Don’t ask us for current pictures of our family members, but we always have plenty of photos of vegetables that look like people. Aren’t these guys adorable?

10am: Lots of heirloom, slicer and cherry tomatoes, lots of sweet salad mix, teen arugula, teen spicy salad mix, early bird cucumbers, watermelons in yellow, red and pink, Kiku melons, loads of fresh figs, lots of cooking greens in a multitude of colors, shapes, sizes, flavors and textures that are all very delicious and healthy for you, dandelion greens, butternut and Thai pumpkin, assorted seasoning peppers, assorted spicy peppers, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, cilantro, dill, a few bunches of onions, small radishes and large radishes, garlic chives, a few bunches of baby carrots, lots of baby ginger, and zinnia flowers!

For those of you who cherish your early-morning beauty sleep on Saturdays, Farmer Luca says that we will not run out of tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, ginger, sweet salad mix or Italian basil. Seriously, you can roll up towards the end and there will still be plenty, so come late you well rested ones, and show off your dewy skin and youthful visages.

Wednesday Tomato Party 3-4:30pm

Share the love! ARTfarm fresh heirloom tomatoes in creative and expressive shapes and sizes!

Wednesday farmstand – Break out your salsa recipes, your tomato bisque recipes, pico di gallo, tomato sandwiches, red gazpacho, Manhattan clam chowdah, fried green tomatoes, Grandma’s marinara sauce, tomato salad, tomato sorbet, and Lady Gaga style tomato fashion accessories. It’s that time of the year!

From 3-4:30pm we have for you: Amazing amounts of tomatoes all types — including lots of beautiful heirlooms, slicers, black plums and cherry tomatoes and a few green ones because Lisa asked. We’ve also got loads of sweet salad mix, some teen arugula and teen spicy salad mix, lots of fresh Mediterranean figs, some cucumbers, watermelons in yellow and pink, baby ginger, lettuce heads, cooking greens, Italian basil, lemon basil, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, various spicy peppers, some deliciously pungent not-hot seasoning peppers (the first for the season), butternut squashes small and large, Thai pumpkin, and zinnia flowers.

Speaking of sweet delicious plump red juicy fruits, Surinam cherry young trees for sale. Come after the first half hour, we will definitely have tomatoes and salad mix all the way until 4:30pm!