Hey BUUUUUUDDY! Little pink buds are appearing on the dragonfruit vines. They’ll be fruits in about a month or so.
How about those April showers? Right in the nick of time. ARTfarm has been keeping a little bit of lettuce alive with careful irrigation at night. We’ve got some sweet salad mix, radishes, ginger and turmeric, and some oregano and other herbs to share, so we will be open for a POP-UP (no reservations, first-come first-serve) farmstand in the afternoon, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5 – 5:30pm.
We’d appreciate if you have any hint of ill health, send a friend to pick up, or wear a mask when you are interacting with Farmer Luca. We need that guy to stay healthy!
Because it’s a quieter time of year, we are not expecting a big crowd. Looking forward to seeing you! Thank you so much.
If you’re looking for someplace to donate your generous tax refund, The Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition, who tirelessly advocates and supports small farmers and farm to school programs in the US Virgin Islands, is a worthy cause. Go to their Facebook page now to learn more and make a donation: /goodfoodvi
Last year around this time, the VI Good Food Coalition distributed assistance to local farmers through their Farmer Drought Mitigation and Support program. Thanks to VI Good Food, ARTfarm ordered more water, worked on fire breaks and purchased extra water pumps.
It’s watermelon season at ARTfarm! These industrially heavy loads are harvested every day for all of you watermelon monsters out there! Human power! No motors!
Yellow and now red watermelon is ready, and oh-so-sweet! Come see us Wednesday afternoon and get your healthy sweet on! All. The. Tomatoes, salad greens in sweet and spicy configurations, kale, radishes, arugula, peppers, picked-that-morning herbs and more. Reservations open on Tuesdays and Fridays, to hold you a spot for a scheduled pickup, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sign up below for one of 72 reserved pickup timeslots, for Wednesday starting at 4 pm! If you missed this signup, there will be another one in less than a week. You can also swing by at the last half hour for open shopping, but reserved customers will head to the front of the line!
Farmer Luca will continue to wear a mask for your three minutes at the ARTfarm pickup table, and if you’re not well or are exposed to someone sick, please do the same. We continue to debate the risks, but we have immunocompromised family members. Instructions below if you’re new. Can’t find the confirmation email? Click HERE. If you need to contact us, text or call the farm phone, (340) 514-4873. Welcome!
Check out our different size preorder ‘farmshare’ selections listed below
See details and a list of extra add-on items available first-come-first-served during your pickup time
Click the link and fill in our quick reservation form. (Reserve an earlier pickup time to catch these first-come-first-serve items)
More details for newbies below!
Brisk farm workouts in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smokers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time, mainly to do garden bed preparation. You can get a great ab and full body workout, mostly standing using rakes and hoes. There is also sifting of compost, hand weeding, late day transplanting and more. Learn about market gardening, construction, food prep. Fast walkers encouraged. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills and efficiency.
Farmshare choices for Wednesday, March 15th, 2023:
We will have 72 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. 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 choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare minimum purchase.
TEEN ARUgula farmshare, $31, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 bag of teen arugula
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
SPICY ‘n’ SWEET farmshare, $31, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 bag of teen spicy salad mix
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
SWEET n’ CHERRY farmshare, $14, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 pint cherry tomatoes
TOMATO farmshare, $10, (makes a great addition with another share) will include:
1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
1 lb. slicer tomatoes
MORE TOMATOES 4LB farmshare, $16, (make the sauce) will include:
4 lb. smaller mixed tomatoes (discount per lb.)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)
(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
SWEET salad MIX
teen ARUGULA
teen SPICY SALAD MIX
TOMATO 2nds
KALE
baby BOK CHOI
assorted COOKING GREENS
bunched ARUGULA
ONIONS with green tops – YUM
sweet and SEASONING PEPPERS
CARROTS with juicable tops
plenty:
YELLOW WATERMELON! and some in classic red!!
slicer TOMATOES
HEIRLOOM tomatoes
CHERRY tomato pints
Italian DANDELION greens
SWEET POTATOES
RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
hot PEPPERS
various Winter SQUASH/PUMPKINS including Delicata!
assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
baby GINGER: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
baby TURMERIC: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS or included in farmshare)
Italian (Genovese) basil
Lemon basil
Holy basil
Thai basil
Dill
Garlic chives
Kafir lime leaves
Lemongrass
Parsley
Scallions
Please contact us immediately by TEXT 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.
During the COVID era we switched to a pre-order system instead of open farmstands, and customers preferred the predictability and drastically shorter wait times. So we’ve stuck with it, for now.
1. Order/reserve at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) and choose your timeslot ahead on our website form (the link above)
2. 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, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list!
2. Please arrive in our parking lot on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. We appreciate your cooperation!
3. At the stand, please bring a mask. We’ll call your name during your timeslot in order of signup. Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag until we’ve totaled up your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the blue bucket, we try not to handle cash.
Please note: With all the flu and viral infections circulating and effects of the “tripledemic”, some of which we have experienced, and Farmer Luca caring for his elderly folks who are immune compromised, we’d appreciate if all customers would help us stay healthy and working, and PLEASE wear a mask and maintain social distancing when directly interacting with us at the ARTfarm stand this winter season.We went maskless for a while, and continue to assess the risks, and hope to loosen restrictions again soon, (March 2023) but for now please help us healthy at work, and protect our family and friends!We shall do the same! We are all one! Grateful for life!!
ARTfarm is a tiny mom and pop family farm who have been growing food with sustainable organic and permaculture methods on St. Croix since 1999. See our FAQs for more info!
Thank you!
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, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. 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 not to allow any one customer to purchase all of one extra. 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!
Still harvesting sweet corn!! It’s the sweet season! ARTfarm in winter has sweet tomatoes, herbs, arugula, salad greens and so much much more – list down below! Reservations open on Tuesdays and Fridays, to hold you a spot for a scheduled pickup, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sign up below for one of 73 reserved pickup timeslots, for Saturday starting at 11 am! If you missed this signup, there will be another one in less than a week. You can also swing by at the last half hour for open shopping, but reserved customers will head to the front of the line!
Check out our different size preorder ‘farmshare’ selections listed below
See details and a list of extra add-on items available first-come-first-served during your pickup time
Click the link and fill in our quick reservation form. (Reserve an earlier pickup time to catch these first-come-first-serve items)
More details for newbies below!
Brisk farm workouts in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smokers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time, mainly to do garden bed preparation. You can get a great ab and full body workout, mostly standing using rakes and hoes. There is also sifting of compost, hand weeding, late day transplanting and more. Learn about market gardening, construction, food prep. Fast walkers encouraged. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills and efficiency.
Farmshare choices for Saturday, March 11th, 2023:
We will have 73 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Saturday. 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 choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare minimum purchase.
BIG SPICY ‘n’ SWEET farmshare, $31, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 bag of teen spicy salad mix
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
SWEET n’ CHERRY farmshare, $14, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 pint cherry tomatoes
TOMATO farmshare, $10, (makes a great addition with another share) will include:
1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
1 lb. slicer tomatoes
MORE TOMATOES 4LB farmshare, $16, (make the sauce) will include:
4 lb. smaller mixed tomatoes (discount per lb.)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)
(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
sweet CORN
TOMATO 2nds
teen SPICY SALAD MIX
bunched ARUGULA
CARROTS with juicable tops
seasoning PEPPERS (smoky, not hot)
assorted COOKING GREENS
baby BOK CHOI
KALE
fresh ONIONS with green tops
plenty:
YELLOW WATERMELON!!! YAAAASS
SWEET salad MIX
RADISHES with green edible tops
hot PEPPERS
SWEET POTATOES
slicer TOMATOES
HEIRLOOM tomatoes
CHERRY tomato pints
Italian DANDELION greens
various Winter SQUASH/PUMPKINS including Delicata!
assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
baby GINGER: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
baby TURMERIC: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS or included in farmshare)
Italian (Genovese) basil
Lemon basil
Holy basil
Thai basil
Dill
Garlic chives
Kafir lime leaves
Lemongrass
Parsley
Scallions
Please contact us immediately by TEXT 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.
During the COVID era we switched to a pre-order system instead of open farmstands, and customers preferred the predictability and drastically shorter wait times. So we’ve stuck with it, for now.
1. Order/reserve at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) and choose your timeslot ahead on our website form (the link above)
2. 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, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com (JOTFORM IS SINGULAR, no ‘S’)– this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list!
2. Please arrive in our parking lot on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. We appreciate your cooperation!
3. At the stand, if you’re at all not feeling well, please bring a mask. We’ll call your name during your timeslot in order of signup. Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag until we’ve totaled up your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the blue bucket, we try not to handle cash.
Please note: With all the flu and viral infections circulating and effects of the “tripledemic”, some of which we have experienced, and Farmer Luca caring for his elderly folks who are immune compromised, we’d appreciate if all customers would help us stay healthy and working, and PLEASE wear a mask if your’e not feeling well, and maintain social distancing when interacting with us at the ARTfarm stand this winter season.Please help us healthy at work, and protect our family and friends!We shall do the same! We are all one! Grateful for life!!
ARTfarm is a tiny mom and pop family farm who have been growing food with sustainable organic and permaculture methods on St. Croix since 1999. See our FAQs for more info!
Thank you!
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, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – check the spelling, jotform has no ‘s’… this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. 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 not to allow any one customer to purchase all of one extra. 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!
The watermelons are producing! We have some amazing heirloom varieties! Grown to meet or exceed NOP standards! Precut so you never get a dud!
Yellow watermelon is ready, and oh-so-sweet! Come see us Wednesday afternoon! Tomato season rages on… All. The. Tomatoes, salad greens in sweet and spicy configurations, kale, radishes and turnips, zucchini, arugula, peppers and more. Reservations open on Tuesdays and Fridays, to hold you a spot for a scheduled pickup, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sign up below for one of 75 reserved pickup timeslots, for Wednesday starting at 4 pm! If you missed this signup, there will be another one in less than a week. You can also swing by at the last half hour for open shopping, but reserved customers will head to the front of the line!
For now, please continue to wear a mask for your three minutes with Farmer Luca at the ARTfarm pickup table. We are tired of it too, and continue to debate the risks, but we have immunocompromised family members. Instructions below if you’re new. Can’t find the confirmation email? Click HERE. If you need to contact us, text or call the farm phone, (340) 514-4873. Welcome!
Check out our different size preorder ‘farmshare’ selections listed below
See details and a list of extra add-on items available first-come-first-served during your pickup time
Click the link and fill in our quick reservation form. (Reserve an earlier pickup time to catch these first-come-first-serve items)
More details for newbies below!
Brisk farm workouts in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smokers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time, mainly to do garden bed preparation. You can get a great ab and full body workout, mostly standing using rakes and hoes. There is also sifting of compost, hand weeding, late day transplanting and more. Learn about market gardening, construction, food prep. Fast walkers encouraged. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills and efficiency.
Farmshare choices for Wednesday, March 8th, 2023:
We will have 75 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. 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 choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare minimum purchase.
BIG TEEN ARUgula farmshare, $39, will include:
2 bags of sweet salad mix
1 bag of teen arugula
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
SPICY ‘n’ SWEET farmshare, $31, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 bag of teen spicy salad mix
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
SWEET n’ CHERRY farmshare, $14, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 pint cherry tomatoes
TOMATO farmshare, $10, (makes a great addition with another share) will include:
1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
1 lb. slicer tomatoes
MORE TOMATOES 4LB farmshare, $16, (make the sauce) will include:
4 lb. smaller mixed tomatoes (discount per lb.)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)
(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
Mediterranean FIGS! WHOOOO
sweet CORN teen ARUGULA
teen SPICY SALAD MIX
TOMATO 2nds
KALE
baby BOK CHOI
ONIONS with green tops – YUM
sweet PEPPERS
CARROTS with juicable tops
ZUCCHINI/Summer SQUASH
Mediterranean FIGS
plenty:
YELLOW WATERMELON! (One chunk per customer, share the harvest)
slicer TOMATOES
HEIRLOOM tomatoes
CHERRY tomato pints
Italian DANDELION greens
SWEET POTATOES
RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
hot PEPPERS
various Winter SQUASH/PUMPKINS including Delicata!
assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
baby GINGER: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
baby TURMERIC: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS or included in farmshare)
Italian (Genovese) basil
Lemon basil
Holy basil
Thai basil
Cilantro
Dill
Garlic chives
Kafir lime leaves
Lemongrass
Parsley
Scallions
Please contact us immediately by TEXT 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.
During the COVID era we switched to a pre-order system instead of open farmstands, and customers preferred the predictability and drastically shorter wait times. So we’ve stuck with it, for now.
1. Order/reserve at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) and choose your timeslot ahead on our website form (the link above)
2. 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, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list!
2. Please arrive in our parking lot on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. We appreciate your cooperation!
3. At the stand, please bring a mask. We’ll call your name during your timeslot in order of signup. Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag until we’ve totaled up your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the blue bucket, we try not to handle cash.
Please note: With all the flu and viral infections circulating and effects of the “tripledemic”, some of which we have experienced, and Farmer Luca caring for his elderly folks who are immune compromised, we’d appreciate if all customers would help us stay healthy and working, and PLEASE wear a mask and maintain social distancing when directly interacting with us at the ARTfarm stand this winter season.We went maskless for a while, and continue to assess the risks, and hope to loosen restrictions again soon, (March 2023) but for now please help us healthy at work, and protect our family and friends!We shall do the same! We are all one! Grateful for life!!
ARTfarm is a tiny mom and pop family farm who have been growing food with sustainable organic and permaculture methods on St. Croix since 1999. See our FAQs for more info!
Thank you!
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, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. 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 not to allow any one customer to purchase all of one extra. 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 