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Happy Solstice from ARTfarm… Tomatoes galore at the farmstand today!

For today’s farmstand at 3pm we have boatloads of tomatoes in holiday colors, a pineapple or two for a lucky early bird, and fresh greens to go with them! Herbs, salad mixes, cucumbers, flowers, all our amazing fresh stuff…

Two happy people at ARTfarm showing off the new reusable shopping bags in front of crates full of fresh lettuce heads.
Our old friend Edward White is back at ARTfarm for a few weeks, and we’ve got snazzy new ARTfarm reusable shopping bags for sale! Happy holidays!

In 2012 we are going to move away from the use of plastic grocery bags at our farmstand. For years we have had a revolving system where customers bring in their clean grocery bags and share them with each other for their shopping. We figure if our customers have a snazzy and convenient, strong and roomy reusable, washable shopping bag to use here at ARTfarm AND at the grocery store, none of us will feel justified in picking up all those bags at the grocery store, and we can end the plastic grocery bags’ carbon footprint and inevitable journey to the landfill.

To make it easy to switch, we have some stylish reusable shopping bags for sale at the farmstand today, with a great ARTfarm design on it — for less than the cost of a tee shirt.  They stuff down tiny to fit in your bag, and are lightweight with a little snap so you can even keep it on your keychain. Throw them in the laundry to wash. They’d make great holiday gifts and stocking stuffers – so cute!

Happy Solstice! And YES, we will be open Christmas Eve morning!!

Laying Pipe

In the off season, when the tomatoes are NOT bursting off the vines, you’d think we would take it easy, go to the beach, or do some cool new paintings.

Not so, friends.

Luca operating a trencher on a skid steer in the pastures at ARTfarm
Luca operating a trencher on a skid steer in the pastures at ARTfarm. We're laying poly pipe for livestock irrigation! Photo by Mitch Amarando.

The off season is when we catch up on infrastructure projects. Luca has been cutting trenches with a skid steer using a hydraulic trenching attachment in our pastures, to bury water lines for our upcoming livestock project. We’ll be experimenting with multi-species grazing and micropasturing. We’re burying the polyethelene pipe so that it will be protected from UV damage, heavy equipment, fire, and chewing animals. It should last just about forever.

ARTfarm Farmstand open today! Independently grown produce!

For your holiday gathering this weekend, we’ve got burger fixins and more – microgreens, baby and teen arugula, spicy mix and sweet too, various basils, chives, lemongrass, mangoes, pineapples, breadfruit, fresh local eggs and honey.

Show your independence from imported foods! We’re open this morning, 10am – 12 noon. We’d love to see you!

A harvest bin full of ARTfarm pineapples of different sizes, textures and colors
Different varieties of fresh pineapples harvested this morning at ARTfarm for today's farmstand.


ARTfarm Saturday stand today! Microgreeeeeeeens

Luca Gasperi and Eric Ogden in 2008 with our red pickup truck holding the "Grow Your Own Pineapples" sign, on our way to Mango Melee!
Luca Gasperi and Eric Ogden in 2008 with our red pickup truck holding the "Grow Your Own Pineapples" sign, on our way to Mango Melee!

Happy shiny Saturday! Today’s farmstand features tender microgreens, baby mix with lettuce, mangoes, scallions, garlic chives, Italian and lemon basil, lemongrass, kangkong (asian water spinach), Sweetface chocolates, coconut-based ice creams, and honey!

Amazingly, Luca was able to find one more row of lettuces that survived all the rains and so there will be lettuce in the baby mix today! This may truly be the last cut lettuce of the season.

We’ll see you all at our booth #7 at the Mango Melee tomorrow at the St. George Village Botanical Gardens! We’ll be there with farmer Aberra Bulbulla, selling mangoes, pineapple slips (baby plants),  jackfruit, breadfruit, young fruit trees and more.

Come out to this fantastic annual event that takes place at the height of mango season on St. Croix, and taste all kinds of fruits, join the mango eating contest, and shop the many vendors: jams and jellies, tasty local foods, local fruit ice cream, jewelry and fashion, gifts, and fantastic plants and fruit trees for sale! Twelve noon to 6:30pm, get there early as the parking lots fill up quick!

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