Tag: 2022

ARTfarm Farmshares Wednesday 2/2/2022, Preorders 4:30-6:15 PM: Reserve one of 43 pickup slots!

An auspicious date, 2-2-2022! Wednesday afternoon at 4:30pm we’ll start distributions for 43 pre-order customers with fresh treats listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. Working together!!

The symmetry of nature never fails to amaze us, even after decades of farming. Beautiful sweet green pimento cheese pepper in conversation with a zinnia flower.

Three different sized available farmshare options are listed below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!

Farmer Luca checking the second batch of sweet corn in the field. Soon come!

Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:

Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!

Farmshare choices for Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022:

We will have 43 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and due to drought related shortages we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to make our farmstand more efficient, transaction times shorter, which minimizes community contact during the pandemic.

Large farmshare, $42, will include:
  • 2 bags of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of baby arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
  • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
  • 1 French breakfast (petite) radish or carrot bunch
Medium farmshare, $22, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of teen arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
Small farmshare, $13, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
Extra Add-Ons (no reservations, first come first served during your pickup slot for a reserved farmshare)
Our spicy salad mix (in baby and teen sizes) is a perfect treat as a side, a gorgeous garnish, as a mildly cooked green, eaten raw right out of the bag as a healthy snack, or mixed with sweet salad greens to add interest and a hint of peppery flavor. It’s versatile, beautiful and packed with nutrition.
  • plenty:
  • CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
  • slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
  • extra bag sweet SALAD GREENS: $7
  • ZUCCHINI/summer squash: $3/lb. 1 lb. bag
  • DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
  • GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
  • Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
  • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
  • early birds:
  • WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
  • CUCUMBERS: $3.50 per 1 lb. bag
  • ROMAINE lettuce heads: $3 each
  • SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
  • ONIONS with green edible tops: $5 per bunch
  • BUTTERNUT squash: $3.50/lb. as marked
  • BABY BOK CHOY, KALE: $3 per bunch
  • Chinese CABBAGE whole head: $5-7 as marked
  • Chinese CABBAGE bunched leaves: $3 per bunch
  • SWEET green pimento cheese PEPPERS: bunch, as marked $3-6
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS, $2 bunches)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Thai basil
  • Garlic chives
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Cilantro – plenty!
  • Dill – plenty!!
  • Lemongrass
  • Hot peppers incl. serranos, jalapeños, thai chiles

Please contact us immediately by text and phone at (340)514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.

Signup form for
WEDNESday PickUP
FEBRUARY 2nd, 2022!

The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.

Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here):
Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.

A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.

Q: My order isn’t going through.
  • if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
    • and the ‘all mail’ folder
  • make sure all required fields are filled/selected
  • just try again
  • use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
  • restart your browser/device
  • clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
  • reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.

Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.

Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.

Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!

ARTfarm Farmshares Saturday 1/29/2022, 11AM-12:30PM: Preorder your Farmshare, Reserve your pickup slot!

Saturday morning at 11 we’ll start distributions for 40 pre-order customers with fresh greens and more listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots this week in order to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. Grateful for life!!

Don’t be afraid of cooking greens. They can be surreptitiously added, finely chopped, to all kinds of dishes to add major micronutrients to your family’s diet practically undetected. Or celebrate them openly with garlic and oil in a quick sauteéd side dish.

Available farmshare listings below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!

Flower Study with Bone & Nest #11 by Mr. Francis Thomas Capone, from ART SHOW at Café Christine, Jan-Feb 2022. $200 print / $300 piece. Mr. Capone is also still looking for a reliable SUV/pickup/vehicle in the $3-5k range.

Friend-of-the-farm Mr. Francis Capone has a contemporary art exhibit at Café Christine with the unique vibe of the South Shore. Stop by the Café through the end of February and check out his delicate drawings and prints, and relax with some coloring. Crayons provided! Enjoy amazing Café Christine cuisine with lots of ARTfarm produce by Chef Lisa! She is one of ARTfarm’s most consistent chef customers. Outdoor seating for lunch, 11:30am-2:30pm Tuesday-Friday. Menu online, call (340) 713-1500 for reservations.

Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or haven’t been to see us since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:

Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!

Farmshare choices for Saturday, January 22nd, 2022:

We will have 40 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Saturday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.

Baby Greens farmshare, $26, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of baby arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
Cherry Tomatoes farmshare, $13, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)

(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):

Customers worry about how to cook our ‘summer squash’ but it’s really just a yellow zucchini. Stuff, sauté, fry, bake, roast… you can even make zucchini bread. So delicious!
  • early birds:
  • WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
  • CUCUMBERS: $3.50/bag 1lb.
  • extra bag teen SPICY or teen ARUGULA SALAD GREENS: $10
  • CARROTS: $3 per bunch
  • SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
  • BUTTERNUT squash: $3.50/lb. as marked
  • baby BOK CHOY: $3-4 per head
  • KALE, CABBAGE leaves: $3 per bunch
  • Chinese CABBAGE head: $5 as marked
  • plenty:
  • slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
  • CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
  • ZUCCHINI/summer squash: $3/bag 1lb.
  • DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
  • baby GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
  • Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
  • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Thai basil
  • Garlic chives
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Hot peppers incl. serranos, jalapeños, thai chiles

Please contact us immediately by text and phone at (340)514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.

Signup form for
SATURDAY PICKUP
JANUARY 29th, 2022!

The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.

Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here):
Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.

A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.

Q: My order isn’t going through.
  • if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
    • and the ‘all mail’ folder
  • make sure all required fields are filled/selected
  • just try again
  • use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
  • restart your browser/device
  • clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
  • reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.

Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.

Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.

Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!

ARTfarm Farmshares Wednesday 1/26/2022, Preorders 4:30-6:15 PM: Reserve your pickup slot!

Mountains of fresh crisp salad greens and sweet yellow and red watermelons at this time of year! Wednesday afternoon at 4:30pm we’ll start distributions for 45 pre-order customers with fresh treats listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. Working together!!

Gardening at night! To conserve our precious and dwindling water reservoirs, Luca does a regular night shift in the dry times. Because the 2022 water tables are still empty from a fall season with no rain, he is typically watering the farm between 9 PM and midnight. It is a contemplative time of day to discover things like this monarch butterfly chrysalis on a fig tree.

Available farmshare options are listed below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!

Our baby spicy salad mix is a perfect treat as a side, a gorgeous garnish, as a mildly cooked green, eaten raw right out of the bag as a healthy snack, or mixed with sweet salad greens to add interest and a hint of pepper. It’s versatile, beautiful and packed with nutrition.

Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:

Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!

Farmshare choices for Wednesday, January 26th, 2022:

We will have 45 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and due to drought related shortages we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.

Hungrier farmshare, $30, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of baby arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
  • 1 bunch tender cooking greens
Smaller farmshare, $22, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of teen arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
Unpeeled ARTfarm pineapple slips are priced according to size. From four dollars for the very largest down to one dollar for the smallest slips. These slips, unpeeled, can be stored for several weeks before planting. They are quite tough and hardy and a relatively drought resistant and decorative crop. These shown are $3, $2 and $1 each.
Extra Add-Ons (no reservations, first come first served during your pickup slot for a reserved farmshare)
  • early birds:
  • WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
  • CUCUMBERS: $3.50/lb. 1 lb. bag
  • extra bag BABY SPICY SALAD GREENS: $14
  • ROMAINE lettuce heads: $3
  • SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
  • BUTTERNUT squash: $3.50/lb. as marked
  • long GREEN BEANS: $3 per bunch
  • BABY BOK CHOY, KALE: $3 per bunch
  • Chinese CABBAGE head: $5 as marked
  • plenty:
  • CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
  • slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
  • extra bag sweet SALAD GREENS: $7
  • ZUCCHINI/summer squash: $3/lb. 1 lb. bag
  • DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
  • GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
  • Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
  • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Thai basil
  • Garlic chives
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Lemongrass
  • Hot peppers incl. serranos, jalapeños, thai chiles

Please contact us immediately by text and phone at (340)514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.

Signup form for
WEDNESday PickUP
JANUARY 26th, 2022!

The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.

Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here):
Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.

A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.

Q: My order isn’t going through.
  • if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
    • and the ‘all mail’ folder
  • make sure all required fields are filled/selected
  • just try again
  • use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
  • restart your browser/device
  • clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
  • reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.

Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.

Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.

Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!

ARTfarm First 2022 Farmstand! 4:30 – 5:30pm Wednesday 1/5/2022!

ARTfarm early winter season! Yellow and green zucchinis, cucumbers, sweet corn and long beans. We’ve also got plenty of salad mixes and herbs, and a few tomatoes starting!

Here we are in 2022! We are back to weekly (socially distanced) farmstands: ARTfarm will be open every Wednesday afternoon 4:30–5:30pm. This week our farmstand will be a hybrid of first-come, first-served socially distanced shopping, and 15 online pre-reservable farmshares for pickup at 5:15pm. Your feedback is always welcomed, and we are always experimenting to maximize your convenience. Saturdays will be added at some point later in the season…

Wednesday afternoon 1/5/22… Starting at 4:30pm, we’ll have sweet salad mix, baby and teen spicy salad mixes, baby and teen arugulae (pretty sure that’s the plural for arugula right?), cucumbers, long green beans, summer squash, scarlet turnips, radishes with cookable green tops, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, Italian basil, baby ginger, baby turmeric, chili peppers, Swiss chard, kale, baby bok choy, dandelion greens, SWEET CORN and a few SLICER TOMATOES, and zinnias…

If you don’t want to wait in the seasonally lengthening line on Wednesday afternoon, there will be 15 large ‘late bird’ farmshares, reservable for pickup at 5:15pm Wednesday. $44 will include:

LATE BIRD farmshare – $44, 5:15pm pickup, reserve online:
2 bags sweet
1 bag baby arugula -or- baby spicy
1 pint cherry tomatoes
2 lbs. cucumbers
1 lb. summer squash (zucchini)

No reserved add-ons for these boxes, but there’s a good chance we will still have some extra special goodies off the main list for our late birds, so feel free to bring extra cash or wait to fill in your check. Traffic has been a little slow this winter so far.

Click below and fill out a short form to reserve a farmshare. You must receive a confirmation email to know for sure that we got your reservation. If you can’t find the confirmation email, please read these tips and do some extra searching before you contact us!

Signup form for preorder
Wednesday
January 5th, 5:15pm 2022!
Mongoose & Zinnia fresh pastured eggs! The rainbow comes from the diversity of handpicked heritage breed hens, all of whom are talented foragers and help the gardens with both fertility and pest control. They also help close nutrient loops by eating plenty of discarded salad greens and other ARTfarm byproduct produce!

We’ll have eggs from Mongoose & Zinnia (still just one or two cartons, as our chickens are STILL on a laying strike). And…

Looking to grow some food at home? Farmer Luca still has a few extra Black Plum tomato slips ready for transplanting into your garden or container (this is a cherry-sized oval shaped sweet, flavorful and rich tomato for eating and cooking). We’ll also have pineapple slips available. If you want seedlings, please text us ahead so Farmer Luca can prep them and bring them up to the gate ahead of time for you. Text your name and number, variety and quantity to the farm phone at (340) 514-4873.

Ms. Eurythrma Mongoose in her Finery, ca. 1889. Mixed media on paperboard, 10” x 12.5” ©2021 Marina Gasperi.

ARTfarmer, mongoose documenter and chicken wrangler Marina Gasperi recently had a solo art exhibition, “Small Life” at Café Christine Tues-Fri 10am-2:30pm (call for holiday open days). The exhibit is officially closed now as the collectors are picking up the purchased works, but we’ll leave a few available original artworks up through January 11th or so, and high quality art print greeting cards are still available. Marina has also created some adorable Chicken vs. Mongoose holiday ornaments out of recycled irrigation supplies. We are working on her website where her art can be viewed, coming soon! Please visit the Café in Christiansted over this holiday time and enjoy this ARTfarm production!

Love, ARTfarmers

Cover photo: We are a three generation family farm. Luca’s dad has farmed on this spot since the late 1960s, although when he was in charge it was a Senepol cow pasture! Nowadays in 2022, salad and radishes for all! And hoping for rain… the grass is slow to grow in these drought conditions!