Tag: beets

Sign Up For Salad & Tomatoes! ARTfarm Sat., 10am – 12noon!

Please admire our improved signs on your way in this morning! IMG_7709-0.JPGIMG_7712.JPGIMG_7711.JPG
Lettuce tell you about today’s harvest: sweet salad mix, teen spicy salad mix, baby arugula, and microgreens. Over in the tomato department we’ve got lovely heirlooms, paste tomatoes, slicers, and a few types of cherries! The veggie aisle at ARTfarm has crispy cucumbers, poetic beets, crunchy radishes, early bird sweet corn for the first few customers, lettuce heads, escarole, sweet peppers, assorted chili peppers, kale; the herb garden offers Italian basil, holy basil, lemon basil, dill, cilantro, parsley, garlic chives, recao, mint, lemongrass, and tender young ginger root. In fruit and home decor we’ve got gorgeous bright zinnia flowers and tangy passionfruit.

In the frozen section you’ll find I-Sha’s homemade vegan all-local coconut based, miraculously creamy non-dairy ICE CREAM in far-out local flavors from avocado to beet-ginger to locust bean to soursop. Always fun to see what Feel-I has come up with next!

We had a great visit from a former ARTfarm employee over the holidays and she managed to put in a few hours helping us out! We named a key garden after Maria years ago so it’s kind of like she never left! IMG_7710.JPG
Happy New Year! Thanks for shopping local and supporting family farms.

Resolve To Eat Local Veggies! 10am-12 noon!

Happy 2015 everyone! Harvested for you, for Saturday morning: sweet salad mix, teen spicy mix, baby spicy salad mix, teen arugula, baby arugula, microgreens, sweet corn, loads of cucumbers, loads of cherry tomatoes, slicing and heirloom tomatoes, radishes, beets, kale, sweet potatoes, sweet bell peppers, escarole, romaine and other assorted lettuce heads, cilantro, parsley, dill, Italian basil, holy basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, recao, chives, lemongrass, chili peppers, ginger root, passionfruit, and various vegetables starts including lettuce and cherry tomato plants and a few herb starts!

And from a friend with a giving tree, we have some very nice avocados!

Here’s to a sustainable, environmentally just, critically informed and reasoned spin around the sun for all beings. Spread love!

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ARTfarm Wednesday Super Fly Cucumber Guy

IMG_7228.JPGMama slice the vegetables Christmas comin’! ARTfarm is open 3–6 p.m. on the South Shore this afternoon with plenty of healthy crunchy green items for your holiday fridge!

Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, arugula, microgreens, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, radishes, beets, chili peppers, sweet bell peppers, lettuce heads, romaine heads, fresh ginger root, garlic chives, lemon basil, holy basil, Italian basil, dill, recao, tarragon, escarole, zinnia flowers. Beautiful honey in stocking-stuffer-sized bottles from Errol Chichester!

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Sweet and Spicy Saturday at ARTfarm 10am Today!

Season’s Greetings! Saturday ARTfarm holiday goodies, 10am – 12 noon: sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, all sizes of arugula, itty bitty microgreens, crisp cucumbers, two types of radishes, beets, cheery cherry tomatoes, kale, sweet potato greens and lettuce heads. Plenty of freshly picked herbs: Italian basil, lemon basil, cilantro, recao, mint, garlic chives, rosemary, dill, ginger, chili peppers, lemongrass and holy basil. Rumor has it that lemongrass is effective in the treatment of chikungunya symptoms.

Luca also has selected pineapple and vegetable starts available for your garden.

For your holiday gift list, why not a bunch of exuberant fresh zinnia flowers, a pineapple or basil plant that you pot up yourself in a pretty pot, or a bunch of sweet bananas. ARTfarm gift certificates are also available.

From our partners we have the last of the ripe, juicy mangoes for this winter season from Alex at Tropical Exotics, petite (perfect stocking-stuffer-sized) honey bottles from Errol Chichester, and we have big “Marcus Pumpkin” avocados from retired UVI fruit tree agronomist Aberra Bulbulla.

We’ll also be open 12-4pm on Christmas Eve day (Wednesday, December 24th) and we’ll start up Monday farmstands again right after Christmas!

We look forward to seeing you. Thanks as always, for supporting small local family farms on our beautiful little jewel of an island. Having the privilege to farm organically in this place is a gift that our customers give to us year-round. Happy holiday season!

IMG_7177.JPGMatthew loves cultivating with our wheel hoe. No fossil fuels required!

IMG_7178.JPGColors are so bright at this time of year on the farm. It’s a great season to be inspired artistically. This section of the farm has been grazed/graced by the ARTfarm sheep flocks for several years. This year, it is rotating in to be a productive powerhouse of tomatoes and veggies and herbs!