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ARTfarm Saturday Excitement!

ARTfarm is open this morning on the South Shore from 10 AM – 12 noon. We still have a broad range of items at this cool time of year, so come out and get your fresh greens and produce for the week ahead! Today we have tons of cherry tomatoes, lots of heirloom and slicer tomatoes, sweet salad mix, microgreens, teen and baby spicy salad mix, teen arugula, a few young cucumbers, kale, dandelion greens, yard long beans, beets, onions, scallions, carrots, cilantro, dill, chives, mint, Italian basil, lemon basil, holy basil, Thai basil, parsley, thyme, rosemary, Mediterranean figs, freshly harvested ginger root, passionfruit, mangoes, and fresh-cut zinnia flowers.

From our partners: Wanda of the Wright Apiary will be on hand today for the sampling and sale of handmade honey meads in a range of amazing fruit infusions. She also has a fantastic honey mustard dressing/marinade in different configurations to suit your taste. Personally we love the “zesty” version with lots of garlic in it! Bees are a huge part of our success in the gardens, honey products are just the icing on the cake.

We also have a fresh batch of I-Sha’s homemade vegan coconut-based ice creams coming in today in local fruit flavors, ready to enjoy in a perfect little one scoop size. Bring a little cooler and some ice and take home a few for a great ending to a locally sourced meal! The coconuts are locally harvested and processed for the ice cream, not from a can! A serious labor of love!

Speaking of love, we love you guys and appreciate your continued encouragement of our efforts to grow organically and sustainably. Thanks for being a part of what we do, we could not continue without our wonderful and supportive customers.

Don’t forget about the 44th Annual Orchid Show open at the Great Hall at UVI today!

A pair of lavender, purple-spotted orchid flowers spread their roots across the bark of a plum tree.
Farmer Luca’s mom, Valeria, is a talented cultivator of tree orchids. Visitors who stay at her vacation rental at the ARTfarm (LongfordHideaway.com) enjoy discovering all the orchids in the trees around the property!

Delicious Saturday: 10am – 12 noon

It’s the height of tomato season and the time of year where we have the most variety! Swing South on your way to your weekend and get some beautiful locally, sustainably and organically grown produce straight from the farmer!

Sweet salad mix, spicy and baby spicy salad mix, arugula, baby arugula, cucumbers, beets, carrots, yard long beans, all sorts of tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, kale, dandelion greens, escarole, endive, radicchio, onions, pumpkin, radishes, ginger, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, holy basil, garlic chives, dill, cilantro, parsley, passionfruit, a few bags of fat fresh Mediterranean figs, fresh cut zinnia flowers!

Our pumpkins were petite but incredibly flavorful this year. They have a very pungent, dry flesh that holds up beautifully to cooking. By the slice!

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ARTfarm Wednesday 3-6pm

Come south to our little oasis after work this afternoon and beat the Saturday crowds: Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, cucumbers, lots of tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, last of the sweet corn, Italian basil, kale, radishes, beets, escarole, dandelion greens, chili peppers, dill, cilantro, parsley, garlic chives, mint, recao (culantro) and zinnia flowers. All organically grown with rainwater irrigation.

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Monday 3-6, MLKJR Day

Happy birthday to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose commitment to justice made so much possible. May his memory inspire everyone’s Day of Service. Selma is still playing at Sunny Isle through Wednesday.

Today, 3-6pm: Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, microgreens, arugula, dandelion greens, cucumbers, loads of tomatoes all types, cherry tomatoes, radishes, Italian basil, holy (tulsi) basil, garlic chives, mint, dill, recao, escarole, lettuce heads, small quantities of sweet corn, zinnia flowers.

From our partners we have vegan ice cream, a perfect little afternoon treat from I-Sha. Coconut is good for you!IMG_7633.JPGBeneficial lacewings drying out from heavy dew on seeding hurricane grass. Lacewing eggs look like tiny threads with white dots suspended from them and can be found on any grass-like structure, including the laundry line.

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