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ARTfarm Saturday Morning Farmstand! 1/10/2026, 10:30AM – 11:30AM! Early Bird Tomatoes!

The tomato avalanche is starting!

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!

ARTfarm Wednesday fruitynutty SALAD Pop-Up! 4/17/2024 – 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Pomegranate fruits!
Sweet, tart, juicy and healthy
Crunch the little seeds.

Wednesday pop up stand,
Sweet yellow watermelon,
Freak out your taste buds.

malabar chestnuts
Malabar chestnuts, or saba nuts, can be cooked or eaten raw. Yum!

All kinds of fruit are delicious on salads (and maybe, some malabar chestnuts too!). We have so much salad! The perfect little rain showers and cooler days have made it possible. Come on out for a one hour Wednesday afternoon pop-up farmstand from 5:30pm – 6:30pm at ARTfarm on the South Shore. Thanks again to Chef Lisa Coates for the haiku inspo.

As last week, there are farm goodies to be had as the tomato season wanes and we get into the fruitier time of year. Try a small bag of malabar chestnuts – these hazelnut sized treats are pre-hulled for you – beautiful to handle and look at, with a delicious delicate soft nut inside the stripy outer skin (you can easily crack on a solid surface and peel with your fingers). They can be enjoyed raw or roasted or cooked or made into flour… a fun snack.

Early Birds

Pomegranates
Cherry tomatoes
Small tomatoes
Malabar chestnuts
Baby bok Choy
French breakfast radishes
Eggs, pastured, from Mongoose&Zinnia
Carrots
Fennel
Dill
Parsley
Italian basil

Plenty

YELLOW WATERMELON, peeps!
Baby arugula
Sweet salad mixed with spicy
Sweet salad mix
Purple sweet potato
Orange sweet potato
Sliced pumpkin
Ginger
Turmeric
Lemongrass
Crabapples
Seriously is anyone reading this
Kafir leaves
Scallions

ARTfarm Haiku Wednesday 4/10/2024 – short and succinct

malabar chestnuts

Malabar chestnuts!
Green tops on things is over,
It’s getting drier.

Wednesday pop up stand,
First come first served vegetables,
Five to Five Thirty.

Come on out for a brief Wednesday afternoon pop-up farmstand from 5pm – 5:30pm at ARTfarm on the South Shore. We got some lovely rain showers last night. Thanks to Chef Lisa Coates for the haiku inspo.

There are farm goodies to be had as the tomato season wanes and we get into the fruitier time of year. Try a small bag of malabar chestnuts – these hazelnut sized treats are pre-hulled for you – beautiful to handle and look at, with a delicious delicate soft nut inside the stripy outer skin (you can easily crack on a solid surface and peel with your fingers). They can be enjoyed raw or roasted or cooked or made into flour… a fun snack.

Early Birds

Small tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes
Bunched arugula
Pink and white Radishes
Turmeric
Ginger
Hot peppers
Fennel
Scallions
Onions
Herbs

Plenty

Carrots
Baby bok choy
Malabar chestnuts
Sliced and whole pumpkin

Wednesday Bounty 3-6pm! Come Shop Local!

We've got beautiful big beets with tops ready for cooking or juicing! Yum!
We’ve got beautiful big beets with tops ready for cooking or juicing! Yum!

 

Some sweet little rain showers at night have perked up the South Shore and quickened the pace of lettuce and veggie production. We are open today from 3–6 p.m. to share with you what the rain has brought: sweet salad mix, baby arugula, teen spicy salad greens, beautiful crispy cucumbers, lots of beets, lots of cherry and slicer tomatoes, kale, escarole, endive, baby bok choy, bunched onions, scallions, Italian basil, Thai basil, holy basil, lemon basil, garlic chives, dill, cilantro, parsley, rosemary, recao, ginger, Bodhi beans, and fresh cut zinnia flowers.

The sweet salad mix in winter is especially crispy and sweet when we've had a bit of rain. Triple washed and ready for the salad bowl!
The sweet salad mix in winter is especially crispy and sweet when we’ve had a bit of rain. Triple washed and ready for the salad bowl!

 

Around New Year’s Eve we had a pair of stray feral dogs show up at the farmstand early one morning. Some of our customers may have noticed them quietly hanging around at the farmstand that weekend and the next. We posted about them on the St. Croix Lost and Found Pets Facebook page and the STX Animal Welfare Center’s Facebook page immediately, but in the bustle of the holidays we neglected to post about them here on our own blog.

Two black and white fuzzy dogs on the farm.
Two stray dogs turned up in December 2014. They’d been running loose since at least October. Anyone know who they belong to?
Unlike most feral strays which we take directly to the Animal Welfare Center, this pair was unusually well behaved. We reported them “found” at the AWC and had them checked by a vet but they had no RFID tags. They are currently still living at the farm. We’d like to post their picture in case anyone knows their history. We did learn after posting their picture online, that they had been living wild since at least October 2014 along the industrial sites of the south shore of St. Croix (Diageo and Molasses Pier). If you have any information or recognize them, please let us know.

 

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