ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI

Saturday parade day farmstand: lots of beautiful sweet salad mix, arugula, baby spicy salad mix that’s almost micro, plenty plenty tomatoes, lots of cherry tomatoes, lots and lots and lots of watermelon, lots of fresh Mediterranean figs, Thai pumpkin which is Luca’s favorite, lots of butternut squashes, lettuce heads, baby bok choy, cooking greens, Japanese chrysanthemum melons, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, loads of baby ginger, baby turmeric, Serrano peppers, super hot -n- tiny Thai peppers, a few bell peppers, papayas, and loads of beautiful zinnias.

Celebrate every day and be in your community in good health! Your life is your awesome parade of you ❤️

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

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.

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!

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!