Cherished rain last week makes delicious food! Say ‘I love you’ with a flavorful and healthy meal of gratitude for your loved ones! 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: tomato seconds, extra heirlooms and greens, watermelon, butternut squash, green beans, chinese cabbage, radishes and turnips with edible green tops, assorted fresh herbs including scallions! The rain has slowed the plants down some as they adjust to the weather shifts, and a few heirlooms split from all the rain and will cross the salsa bridge…
Also – Musical comedy CHICAGO performances at CCT this weekend and next – it’s selling out – get tickets HERE! Come see ARTfarmers on stage and in the live orchestra! Members of the Chicago cast and crew – order and select delivery to CCT rehearsal.
Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup on Wednesday afternoon (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 51 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times, for Wednesday starting at 4:30pm!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP AT 5:30pm and we’ll fit you in for tomatoes and extras – PLUS there will be another signup Saturday. 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 Wednesday, February 14th, 2024:
We will have 51 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 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 grand gesture farmshare, $33, will include:
- 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
- 1 bag of teen SPICY salad mix -or- teen ARUgula
- 2 lbs. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
- 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
- 2 lb. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM zukey farmshare, $17, will include:
- 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
- 2 lbs. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
- 1 lb. ZUCCHINI
SMALL chinese new year farmshare, $10, will include:
- 1 bag SPICY/SWEET (blend!) salad mix
- 1 B. Chinese cabbage
2NDS TOMATO madness farmshare, $7, will include:
- 2 lbs. seconds TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom, scratch and dent)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)
(No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
- TOMATO seconds (dent and scratch for soup and salsa, discounted 2 lb. bag)
- HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
- CHERRY TOMATOES
- ROMAINE lettuce heads
RED LEAF lettuce heads - ONIONS with green onion tops!
- SWEET PEPPERS
- pink French breakfast RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
- baby BEETS with beautiful luscious green tops
- GREEN BEANS
- baby BOK CHOY
- baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
- JALAPEÑO and GREEN CAYENNE peppers
plenty:
- RED and YELLOW WATERMELON
- CUCUMBERS
- Chinese CABBAGE – purple and green
- tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
- assorted COOKING GREENS
- BUTTERNUT squash
- 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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