Tomorrow morning’s SATURDAY ARTfarm PopUp features more fresh salad greens including arugula and spicy! And for the early birds, a few cherries and slicers are starting to become available. Limited amounts per customer right now until the floodgates open! French breakfast radishes, turnips and lovely limes. Our season is rolling!
We’ll see you today Saturday 1/10/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.
Plenty
Sweet salad mix
Baby arugula
Baby spicy salad mix
Zucchini
Cucumbers (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
Italian basil
French breakfast radishes with green tops
Key limes
Kafir limes and leaves
Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest) 
Early Birds
Cherry tomatoes
Slicer tomatoes
 Green sweet frying peppers
Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard, cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
Baby while turnips with green tops
Cilantro
Dill
Thai basil
Pineapple slips
Marigold and zinnia cut stem flowers
Every zinnia flower petal has a seed at the center. Enjoy your flowers and change the water frequently; when the bloom leaves the flowers, toss them in your garden or carefully plant the seeds, and they’ll grow for you! Tomato energy is building. Cherry tomatoes for early birds this week!
See you Saturday January 10, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!
Farmer Luca will be open 5 to 6 pm Wednesday at the farm with lots of goodies, especially for the early birds… Sweet mix for everybody, veggies and fruit. Enjoy!
ARTfarm sweet lettuce mix contains six to eight varieties of green and red leaf lettuces. Biodiversity helps prevent crop failure and gives us different micronutrients for good health! Mix it up!
Hey folks, despite the wetness and rain Farmer Luca will be open 5 to 6 this afternoon with lots of goodies, veggies and watermelon. Enjoy!
Ravishing Radishes – They grow faster than the bugs can keep up with! The crunchy bottoms can be eaten raw (peppery) or used as a root vegetable cooked (mild). The tops are more nutritious than the root, and can be used as salad or cooking greens. Some folks make smoothies with them! Don’t waste an inch of this mighty veggie! We love them sliced thin in oil and vinegar with a pinch of salt.
Farmer Lindsey Simmonds was one of many volunteers who arrived with family, firefighting equipment, and muscle to help us extinguish smoldering fencing posts and plant material.
Saturday mid-morning quick mini farmstand 11am – 11:30am, first come first served.
Huge thanks to all the volunteers and farm family who came out to help us on Sunday afternoon during the brush fire and into the dark hours, to extinguish most of the smoldering fence posts, tree stumps and embers. No words to express our deep thanks.
See the top post on our site for ways to donate to support our recovery from this massive fire that burned more than half the farm and destroyed a lot of infrastructure.
Rain showers have been helpful but crops still need to be watered. A number of our mainline water transport lines got melted in the fire. Farmer Luca is working to replace those lines to resume watering crops on the outer edges of production area.
Volunteering details
We will be meeting at the farm entrance at 4pm on Saturday and Sunday to clear fence lines of burnt treated lumber. Please be on time. Non-smokers/non-tobacco users only please.
Response has been big for this weekend. There will be more volunteering efforts after this weekend, and if turnout is overwhelming for this weekend’s cleanup we may ask a few folks to sit this one out. We may put an online volunteer signup system in place.
We want to impress upon those thinking about helping, that the fire was only recently fully extinguished, and air quality is still poor in these pasture areas. Windy conditions continue to lift ash and blow it around. Masks are absolutely suggested. Folks with respiratory issues should not come. Also know that there will be lots of walking. If you have mobility issues, consider not coming to this session. We will have other volunteer days coming up as well.
Our main focus this weekend is going to be clearing fence lines of burned treated lumber (telephone poles), and collecting burnt plastic and other waste materials. Possibly some documentation and assessment tasks as well. Protect your skin.
Lastly, if you are a tobacco smoker or user, we really would prefer if you would not help. It is still tomato season and there’s still a chance that our crops will get tobacco mosaic virus from having you out here handling tools, supplies and gates.
Volunteers, please bring:
Gloves, long sleeves
Dust mask or fabric mask
Good sturdy work shoes
Drinking water and snacks
Loppers for pruning dead branches and vines off fencing
Wire cutters for cutting burnt areas off electric netting
A wheelbarrow if you have one
MiniARTfarmstand for Saturday:
Sweet salad mix
Heirloom tomatoes
Slicer tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes
Tomato seconds
Baby bok Choy
Bunched arugula
Scallions
Baby turmeric
Hot green and red peppers
Basil
Cilantro
Parsley
Dill
Kaffir leaves
First come first served. Grateful for your support of our family farm. See you Saturday 11am – 11:30am
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 