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ARTfarm Winter Starts! Mon & Wed This Week!

Taste the sweet sun, cool rains and Christmas trade winds in our soil-grown produce available this week, special holiday hours: Sweet salad mix, microgreens, baby arugula, recao, garlic chives, basil, mint, radishes, zinnia flowers, lots of cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and a few slicer tomatoes. We have a fresh batch of coconut-milk ice cream from Feel I in four delectable local fruit flavors: banana, soursop, passionfruit, and avocado. AND Kim will be on hand with fresh filleted tuna!

Open Monday, December 22nd, 3-6pm AND special hours Wednesday morning, Christmas Eve from 10 till 12 with more goodies! We look forward to seeing you this week!

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ARTfarm Saturday 10am – 12 noon…Fish!

Wishing our friends of the Jewish faith a very happy Chanukah. And a happy and restful winter solstice to everyone on Sunday!

This morning we have harvested off the ARTfarm fields: sweet salad mix, arugula, spicy mix, microgreens, cucumbers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, two types of radishes, Italian basil, holy basil, cilantro, dill, recao, rosemary, garlic chives, lemongrass, escarole, romaine and other lettuce heads, kale, beets, zinnia flowers, fresh ginger root, baby bok choy, sweet bell peppers and serrano peppers.

From our partners: Avocados and bananas from a friend, raw local honey from Errol and… Kim will be here with fresh caught wahoo and BLACK FIN TUNA!!

Looking forward to seeing everyone! For those of you new to the email list: ARTfarm is located on the south side of the South Shore Rd. You’ll find us at the end of the very long straightaway near the stone cattle pens, between Ha’penny Beach and the Boy Scout Camp (due south of the Canegata Ballpark in Christiansted as the crow flies). We open promptly at 10am on Saturdays, so if you want to have any time to speak with your neighbors and grab any earlybird items you’ll want to get to the farm at 9:45. We grow all of our produce in the soil, and in complete compliance with the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) standards, but we are not officially certified organic. Any other questions? The best time to chat with the farmers is during the lulls at the farmstand.

In farm news, the deer are back. They have been eating the young moringa trees we have been trying to establish in the pastures. Luckily, they have a gig at the north pole on Wednesday night so we’re planning to replant on Wednesday afternoon. Ha ha.

We will be open on Monday and Wednesday for the coming holiday week. Merry Merry!

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ARTfarm Wednesday Super Fly Cucumber Guy

IMG_7228.JPGMama slice the vegetables Christmas comin’! ARTfarm is open 3–6 p.m. on the South Shore this afternoon with plenty of healthy crunchy green items for your holiday fridge!

Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, arugula, microgreens, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, radishes, beets, chili peppers, sweet bell peppers, lettuce heads, romaine heads, fresh ginger root, garlic chives, lemon basil, holy basil, Italian basil, dill, recao, tarragon, escarole, zinnia flowers. Beautiful honey in stocking-stuffer-sized bottles from Errol Chichester!

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Sweet and Spicy Saturday at ARTfarm 10am Today!

Season’s Greetings! Saturday ARTfarm holiday goodies, 10am – 12 noon: sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, all sizes of arugula, itty bitty microgreens, crisp cucumbers, two types of radishes, beets, cheery cherry tomatoes, kale, sweet potato greens and lettuce heads. Plenty of freshly picked herbs: Italian basil, lemon basil, cilantro, recao, mint, garlic chives, rosemary, dill, ginger, chili peppers, lemongrass and holy basil. Rumor has it that lemongrass is effective in the treatment of chikungunya symptoms.

Luca also has selected pineapple and vegetable starts available for your garden.

For your holiday gift list, why not a bunch of exuberant fresh zinnia flowers, a pineapple or basil plant that you pot up yourself in a pretty pot, or a bunch of sweet bananas. ARTfarm gift certificates are also available.

From our partners we have the last of the ripe, juicy mangoes for this winter season from Alex at Tropical Exotics, petite (perfect stocking-stuffer-sized) honey bottles from Errol Chichester, and we have big “Marcus Pumpkin” avocados from retired UVI fruit tree agronomist Aberra Bulbulla.

We’ll also be open 12-4pm on Christmas Eve day (Wednesday, December 24th) and we’ll start up Monday farmstands again right after Christmas!

We look forward to seeing you. Thanks as always, for supporting small local family farms on our beautiful little jewel of an island. Having the privilege to farm organically in this place is a gift that our customers give to us year-round. Happy holiday season!

IMG_7177.JPGMatthew loves cultivating with our wheel hoe. No fossil fuels required!

IMG_7178.JPGColors are so bright at this time of year on the farm. It’s a great season to be inspired artistically. This section of the farm has been grazed/graced by the ARTfarm sheep flocks for several years. This year, it is rotating in to be a productive powerhouse of tomatoes and veggies and herbs!