Did you say TOMATOES? We have heirlooms, slicers, and cherry tomatoes galore. And tons of salad greens – sweet lettuces mix, tender baby arugula, spicy salad mixes, bringing back our old sweet-n-spicy salad mix… plus cukes and zukes, herbs, cooking greens and root veggies! Sweet mix soon returning to the lineup. Join our scheduled zippy-pickup on Wednesday (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 65 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you dibs on the extra items we have, with small groups and short wait times, for Wednesday starting at 4:30pm!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP IN THE LAST HALF HOUR – PLUS there will be another signup Friday for Saturday morning pickups. Instructions below if you’re new. Welcome!

Wednesday afternoon we’ll have preorder selections that include bags of baby spicy AND arugula salad mixes, cucumbers and zucchini, and cherry and slicing tomatoes. Extras to add on at your pickup time will include: extra greens, summer and butternut squashes, baby bok choy, beautiful bunched pink radishes with edible green tops, crunchy ‘salad’ turnips with hyperhealthy green cooking tops, assorted fresh herbs including cilantro, dill, Italian basil, garlic chives, lemongrass and the addition of small leaf OREGANO to make your tomato sauce just like mama’s!!

Trailer project nearly finished! We seek a Linoleum 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.

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.

Remember the best way to support agriculture and scenic farmland in the US Virgin Islands is to buy produce directly from farmers.

Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!

New to ARTfarm? WELCOME!

We’ve always had pretty big enthusiastic crowds at our farmstands, which are seasonal and typically twice-a-week brief events. During early COVID times in 2020 to expand elbow room, we switched to a pre-order system instead of open farmstands: Order/reserve 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 arrive in our parking lot on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. You’ll find a quick transaction with additional selections to “add-on” to your reserved farmshare. We appreciate your cooperation!

At the stand, please honor others’ personal space (and wear a mask if you’re not feeling well to keep our staff healthy). We’ll call your name during your timeslot in order of signup. Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag your items on the table until we’ve totaled everything up; bring cash (small bills appreciated) or check please. We have a blue bucket for your payment!

Please note: With flu season in swing and Farmer Luca caring for his elderly folks, we’d appreciate if all customers would help us stay healthy and working, and PLEASE maintain social distancing when interacting at the ARTfarm stand. We shall do the same! We are all one! Grateful for life!!

ARTfarm is a tiny mom and pop and kid family tropical farm. We’re small and bio-diverse on 40 acres. We’ve been growing food with regenerative organic and permaculture methods on St. Croix since 1999. See our FAQs for more info!

Thank you!

Farmshare choices for Wednesday, January 31st, 2024:

We will have 65 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!

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):

early birds:

• red WATERMELON (big chunks and a few mini whole melons)
• CHERRY TOMATOES by the pint
• teen SPICY salad MIX
• teen ARUGULA
• baby GINGER fresh harvested

plenty:

• slicing TOMATOES (mixed heirloom, slicers)
• BUTTERNUT squash
• CUCUMBERS
• ZUCCHINI
• baby BOK CHOY
• pink french breakfast RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
• tender crunchy mild salad TURNIPS with highly nutritive green tops, $3/bunch
• assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
  

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.