ARTfarm Saturday: Herbacious! 10am-12noon

Lots of tender younger greens and a large sampling of herbs today! Teen spicy salad mix, teen sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy mix; radishes, beets, white carrots, escarole, dandelion greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, soursop; zinnia flowers, Wanda’s honey. Herb garden haul: Recao (aka culantro, mexican coriander, shado beni), frilly cilantro, garlic chives, scallions, sage, dill, lemongrass, Italian basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, kefir leaves, kefir limes!

A pile of several dozen freshly harvested beets and their greens, a bunch of scallions, and a pile of white carrots with their greens rest on a stainless countertop at ARTfarm.
Juicy red beets, scallions, and white carrots freshly harvested at ARTfarm

Slicer tomatoes have been spotted ripening, soon come but not today…

A farmer in a large straw hat squats down to weed a row of young tomato plants, with a banana tree, green hills and a blue sky full of puffy clouds behind him.
ARTfarmer Luca tends to young tomato plants.

Sweet and spicy! ARTfarm 3-6pm today!

Get SPICY!! Fresh picked at ARTfarm this morning: Sweet mix, spicy mix, baby spicy mix, baby arugula, escarole, two kinds of dandelion greens, long beans, radishes, cilantro, dill, garlic chives, four kinds of basil, rosemary, thyme, sage, lemongrass, zinnia flowers, limited amounts of cherry tomatoes, lots of crispy delicious cucumbers in various special varieties. Wanda’s honey! Open today 3-6pm! Come and get it!!

A variety of purple, green and burgundy whole leaf mesclun lettuces and greens are scattered in a box with a sprinkling of bright orange cherry tomatoes on top.
Festive colors and gorgeous textures are a feast for the eyes and make a beautiful table. The flavors in ARTfarm’s spicy salad mix combine sweet and spicy, with pungent mustard greens that can stand up to a creamy textured dressing. YUM!

Saturday’s ARTfarm 10am-12noon! Get Greened!

Oh yes! We have salad greens! Although, perhaps calling them ‘greens’ is a bit disingenuous as they come in a variety of colors and shades. We open at 10am and the three earliest early birds can purchase a teaser half pint of sweet cherry tomatoes to add even more color to their salad. Don’t forget the cucumbers in all their various sizes, shapes and textures! We could eat salad like that for every meal and snack of the day!

Just harvested at ARTfarm, six different types of sweet lettuces range widely in texture, shape and color - from a spring green oak leaf to a fiery red ombre to a deep burgundy purple lettuce, and other greens and reds in between.
Six different types of sweet lettuces range widely in texture, shape and color – from a spring green oak leaf to a fiery red ombre to a deep burgundy purple lettuce, and other greens and reds in between. ARTfarm’s salad mixes contain many lettuce varieties, making it a gorgeous collage on the plate!

Sweet mix, spicy mix, tender young arugula, various specialty cucumbers, dandelion greens, radish greens, escarole; basil in three flavors, sage, lemongrass, garlic chives; local honey from Wanda, including marked bottles with extra pollen for extra creamy dreaminess; zinnia flowers in a mind-blowing spectrum. (Any butterflies that follow you home are definitely free of charge. Because, well you know…) Get down to the South Shore before noon!

Saturday Morning ARTfarm! Come early for tomato seedlings!

A green ceramic bowl holds a generous handful of vine-ripe cherry tomatoes in yellows and oranges, sitting on a worn wooden board with blue fading paint.
First tomatoes of the 2012 season! We have one half pint of cherry tomatoes for the first lucky customer.

Saturday morning ARTfarmstand: we have microgreens, sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, arugula, escarole, dandelion greens, basil in various flavors, garlic chives, dill, sage, lemongrass, cucumbers, beets, radishes and their delicious greens, honey, huge gorgeous zinnia flowers, and limited quantities of organically started tomato seedlings for sale! (For those less ambitious, but early today, our tomato season is starting with a half pint of cherry tomatoes available this morning, for the first lucky customer!)