Happy Friday! It is DEFINITELY high season on the South Shore! The temporary dip in tomato production is booming for cherries! Once again tomatoes ripened on the vine, lots of options for spicy and sweet salad mixes, zucchini, herbs, cooking greens, and root veggies! Extras to add on at your pickup time will include: WATERMELON, extra heirlooms and greens, butternut squash, green beans, chinese cabbage, bok choy, radishes and turnips with edible green tops, assorted fresh herbs. Also, winter squash are a THING right now, grab a couple, roast them up and enjoy!!
Speaking of good cooking, we want to let you know that SALT at the Dairy, our most locally situated restaurant about a mile up the road at Great Pond, has announced that they will be closing. Like, really closing. March 15th 2024 is their last day in business so please make reservations now and enjoy the talents and hospitality of Chris and Kelly Booth. Chef Chris will be around for catering and private gigs, but don’t miss one last meal at this magical location on the deck overlooking Great Pond Bay and the cattle pastures! These guys have made ARTfarm a mainstay of their menu for five delicious, glorious years and we are going to miss them a ton. Thanks, Booth family and welcome to the new addition, soon come!
Also – the last two performances of Musical comedy CHICAGO at CCT this weekend – it’s selling out and there will be no extra shows – get on the waiting list by email request HERE. Come see ARTfarmers on stage and in the live orchestra! Members of the Chicago cast and crew – order here and select delivery to CCT rehearsal.
Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 53 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP in the last half hour and we’ll fit you in for tomatoes and extras – PLUS there will be another signup in a couple of days. Detailed instructions, and questions answered HERE if you’re new. Welcome!
Click here for info on ARTfarm volunteering! Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants!
ARTfarm NEEDS:
• a Linoleum Flooring Person! ARTfarm’s new processing center, funded in part by a grant from World Central Kitchen, is a 40 foot (retired) insulated shipping container getting a retrofit as walk-ins and indoor/outdoor workspace. We’re looking for help with installing vinyl sheet flooring, if you know someone with experience installing this waterproof material please send them our way! We are SO CLOSE to being done.
• ON-FARM VOLUNTEERS. Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time. We have a range of activities for all abilities/fitness levels, including full-body cardio activities, and zen mellow seated-in-the-shade options. You’ll learn about regenerative organic farming practices, market gardening, construction and/or food prep. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!
Support agriculture and scenic farmland in the US Virgin Islands: buy produce directly from farmers. Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!
Farmshare choices for Saturday, February 24th, 2024:
We will have 53 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 you can order more than one farmshare. At the farmstand, you can choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We require a minimum farmshare purchase because we are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; but we’ll do our best to make substitutions as needed; we want you to be happy!
LARGE salad lover farmshare, $33, will include:
- 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
- 1 bag of teen ARUgula
- 1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
- 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
- 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM slighlysmaller farmshare, $23, will include:
- 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
- 1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
- 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
- 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
SMALL spicysweet -n- cherry farmshare, $16, will include:
- 1 bag SPICY/SWEET (blend!) salad mix
- 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
2NDS TOMATO madness farmshare, $7, will include:
- 2 lbs. seconds TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom, discounted scratch and dent)
ZUCCHINI farmshare, $8, will include:
- 2 lbs. ZUCCHINI
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
- baby FENNEL
- SWEET salad mix
HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes - CARROTS
- ONIONS with green onion tops!
- baby BOK CHOY
- SWEET PEPPERS
- assorted HOT peppers
- baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
plenty:
- RED and YELLOW WATERMELON
- CHERRY TOMATOES
- SPICY salad mix
- CUCUMBERS
- ZUCCHINI
- BUTTERNUT squash
- round DELICATA SQUASH – halve and steam/roast in the oven! YUM!
- Chinese CABBAGE – purple and green
- pink French breakfast RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
- tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
- assorted COOKING GREENS (dandelion, collards, KALE…)
- assorted GREEN BEANS
- assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
Herbs for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS)
- Italian (Genovese) basil
- Thai basil
- Lemon basil
- Cilantro
- Dill
- Kaffir lime leaves
- Lemongrass
- small leaf OREGANO
- Scallions
Please contact us immediately by text and/or 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.
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. (And then, add us to your address book!) 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!
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