Hello food lovers! Season is getting underway! Heirlooms and slicer tomatoes are starting! Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are starting to be more regular. We have heard your ‘please’ and pleas, but still holding off on the timeslot reservations at this point. It will be first come first served Saturday. Farmer Luca will ration a few items so there is plenty for even latecomers, so if chatting in the line is not your thing, you can come later in the hour when the initial group has been served, and still get items from the ‘plenty’ list below, including salad greens and other treats.
As usual at this time of year, it’s a great time to ask about volunteering on the farm, or tell a friend if you know someone who might be interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Profit margins for organic produce are surprisingly thin for a small mom and pop organic farm operation, and volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.
No reservations; first come, first served. We really appreciate your support.
Ridiculously sweet yellow watermelons are beautiful and tasty! Come and get them while the harvest lasts! Also available in classic ‘watermelon’ red!
Plenty for All
Sweet salad mix (tender, and sweet from the rain)
Baby spicy salad mix
Sweet and spicy salad mix
Teen arugula
Cucumbers (Japanese)
Kaffir lime leaves and fruit
Early Birds
Cherry tomatoes
Heirloom and slicer tomatoes
Watermelons (yellow, orange, red – cut and whole)
Large pink radishes with edible green tops
Italian basil
Lemongrass
Baby ginger
Green hot peppers
Cilantro
We’re always on the lookout for volunteers to help with garden preparation. Come hang with Farmer Luca and learn some farming skills! Non-smokers/non-tobacco users please.
There are 30 young adults training to become conservation planners in a group initiative with several natural resource and agriculture groups in St. Croix and Vermont. We were grateful to have them visit the farm in January and help us plant pineapples into paper mulch.
Hello sweet people! We are starting to roll out more food! Tomatoes dem comin’! Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are starting to be more regular. Still holding off on the timeslot reservations at this point. It will be first come first served Wednesday.
As usual at this time of year, it’s a great time to ask about volunteering on the farm, or tell a friend if you know someone who might be interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Profit margins for organic produce are surprisingly thin for a small mom and pop organic farm operation, and volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.
Big thanks to the AmeriCorps group for their help prepping and planting pineapples! From their website: “The White River Natural Resources Conservation District in Vermont, the Virgin Islands Women in Agriculture Association (VIWIAA), and the Bennington County Natural Resources Conservation District have spent the past three years building “Farm Force,” a professional workforce development certification program that bridges Vermont and the US Virgin Islands. This year, we proudly partnered with the Working Lands Conservation Corps (WLCC), a new AmeriCorps initiative sponsored by the USDA-NRCS and the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), to train 30 young adults in Conservation Planning and Regenerative Agriculture over the course of one year.”
Virgin Islands Women In Agriculture Association (VIWIAA) workforce development!
No reservations; first come, first served. We really appreciate your support.
Sweet juicy watermelon. We pre-cut to make sure you don’t get a dud, and to share the harvest. Heirloom varieties, so toss the seeds in your yard and see if you can get a vine going!
Plenty for All
Sweet salad mix (tender, and sweet from the rain)
Baby arugula
Baby spicy
Sweet and spicy mix
Cucumbers (Japanese)
Watermelons (yellow, orange, red – cut and whole)
Kaffir lime leaves and fruit
Early Birds
Cherry tomatoes Heirloom and slicer tomatoes
French breakfast radishes with edible green tops
Large pink or white radishes with edible green tops
Hello good people! We are finally getting rolling this season with Saturdays. We are not going to do reservations at this point. It will be first come first served. We are a little understaffed as some of our regular helpers have not been available.
As usual at this time of year, it’s a great time to ask about volunteering on the farm, or tell a friend if you know someone who might be interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Profit margins for organic produce are surprisingly thin for a small mom and pop organic farm operation, and volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.
Big thanks to the Americore group for their help prepping and planting pineapples!
No reservations; first come, first served. We really appreciate your support.
Teen spicy mix harvested fresh at dawn, in your fridge next day! Keep the air out of the bag and these will last a long time, to eat straight, mix with other salad greens, use as a garnish or bed for an entrée, wilt in a dish for a slight pepper flavor…
Plenty for All Sweet salad mix (tender, and sweet from the rain)
Baby arugula
Baby spicy
Teen spicy
Cucumbers (Japanese and slicer types)
Watermelons (yellow, orange, red – cut and whole)
Large pink or white radishes with edible green tops
Farmer Luca sorting and stacking heirloom tomatoes in the field. Our Haley farm cargo trike holds about half a pickup truck of produce per load, human powered!
HAPPY SPRING! Snowbird migration has begun! We still have loads of plenty! All the tomatoes! Reserve an earlier shopping time with our quick form linked below, or just come 11:30am – 12 noon for open shopping!
Come early and reserve an earlier timeslot for first dibs on an ever changing array of always organically grown extra fruit and veggie seasonal items: fruits, greens, various tomatoes, herbs and specialty ingredients, squashes, peppers, onions, ginger and turmeric, radishes and turnips with edible leafy tops, assorted fresh herbs and other stuff. Exhaustive and more accurate list below.
We tried a new variety of tasty cherry tomato in the mix this season at ARTfarm! Gorgeous color!
Our scheduled shop-n-pickup is easy (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of dozens of pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times!) If you missed this signup, you can JUST SHOW UP in the last half hour for OPEN SHOPPING and we’ll fit you in for extras – PLUS there will be another signup in a couple of days. Detailed instructions, and questions answered HERE if you’re new. Welcome!
• Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). As brief as two hours at a time. Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Fun rides in the farm cart! Help out with the livestock! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants! Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!
ARTfarm NEEDS:
• an experienced Linoleum Flooring Installer. The World Central Kitchen project continues. We’ve knocked out the mechanical end of the 40′ container to recover an extra foot of space. Luca and the volunteer crew cut channels between the compartments to prevent thermal transfer and filled in the T-channel flooring with a combination of insulating foams to help the cold air stay in! Subflooring is done. Dividers in. Still need a helper with linoleum flooring experience to help us finish out the floor. Send us a contractor!
We will have 41 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and you can order more than one farmshare. At the farmstand, you can add on available first-come-first-serve extras and we’ll total your order. We require a minimum farmshare purchase because we are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; but we’ll do our best to make substitutions as needed; we want you to be happy!
Please note: Produce (including tomatoes) labeled “seconds” should be used/refrigerated immediately. Cucumbers are a mix of asian, middle eastern and hardy slicing types.
LARGE cukeababyrugumato farmshare, $46, will include:
1 bag of SWEET salad mix
1 bag of baby ARUgula
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM spicycherrymato farmshare, $34, will include:
1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
SMALL sweetpoundpint farmshare, $19, will include:
1 bag SWEET salad mix
1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
BOK CHOY BABIES farmshare, $10, will include:
3 tender baby BOK CHOY heads!
TOMATO farmshare, $10, will include:
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
purple SWEET POTATOES
orange SWEET POTATOES
LONGAN dragon eye fruit (related to genip, lychee, rambutan – soooo sweet)
ONIONS with green onion tops!
white (sweet-spicy) RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
SWEET PEPPERS
assorted HOT peppers
baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
plenty:
CHERRY TOMATOES
HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
2nds TOMATOES – scratch and dent – use or frigerate immediately
CARROTS for cute baby bunnies… and YOU
PUMPKIN whole and slices
tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
French pink breakfast RADISHES with green tops
DAIKON radishes! YAAASSSSS!
assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
Herbs for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS)
Thai basil
Cilantro
Dill
Kaffir lime leaves
Lemongrass
small leaf OREGANO
Scallions
Please contact us immediately by text and/or phone at (340) 514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.
The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘All Mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. (And then, add us to your address book!) For more tips, visit our Help page.
Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here): Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.
A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.
Q: My order isn’t going through.
if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
and the ‘all mail’ folder
make sure all required fields are filled/selected
just try again
use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
restart your browser/device
clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.
Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.
Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.
Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 