Tag: February

These Heirlooms Won’t Last a Lifetime! ARTfarm Tomatoes! Saturday tomorrow February 3rd! 10:30am – 12:30pm (Open without reservations 12-12:30)

ginger and turmeric root, and jars of prepared ginger/turmeric concentrate
For cold and flu season, make a big jar of ginger turmeric concentrate in your fridge and add a splash to everything from a glass of ice water to hot tea! We keep the strained leftover ginger solids in a jar in the fridge and use it by the spoonful in cooking and baking. It’s a great little addition of ginger and fiber, added to soups, sauces, sautees, salad dressing, even brownies!

Saturday: An Heirloom to cherish and enjoy! Right now we have tomatoes ripened on the vine, arugula, spicy salad mixes, cucumbers, herbs, cooking greens and root veggies! Extras to add on at your pickup time will include: tomato seconds, extra heirlooms and greens, watermelon, butternut squash, green beans, radishes and turnips with edible green tops, assorted fresh herbs including scallions! And once again, our retro SWEET/SPICY salad mix blend in the “small” farmshare Saturday! Also – Musical comedy CHICAGO opens at CCT February 9th – already selling out – get tickets HERE! Come see ARTfarmers on stage and in the live orchestra!

The ARTfarm is loving the rain! And the crops are doing weirdly awesome this year with a little more homemade compost and less of our liquid concentrate plant nutrition, an indication that our regenerative superorganic no-chem soil-building practices are rocking!

A painting of filleted fish bodies, sugar apple, pineapple and other fruit peels, and kitchen scraps
In April 2019, Farmer Luca exhibited a number of paintings of the often surprisingly beautiful and luminous contents of our compost buckets.

Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup on Saturday (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 65 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times, for Saturday starting at 10:30am!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP AT NOON – PLUS there will be another signup Wednesday. Instructions HERE if you’re new. Welcome!

Click here for info on ARTfarm volunteering! Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants!

ARTfarm NEEDS:

• a Linoleum Flooring Person! ARTfarm’s new processing center, funded in part by a grant from World Central Kitchen, is a 40 foot (retired) insulated shipping container getting a retrofit as walk-ins and indoor/outdoor workspace. We’re looking for help with installing vinyl sheet flooring, if you know someone with experience installing this waterproof material please send them our way! We are SO CLOSE to being done.

• ON-FARM VOLUNTEERS. Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time. We have a range of activities for all abilities/fitness levels, including full-body cardio activities, and zen mellow seated-in-the-shade options. You’ll learn about regenerative organic farming practices, market gardening, construction and/or food prep. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!

Remember the best way to support agriculture and scenic farmland in the US Virgin Islands is to buy produce directly from farmers. Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!

Farmshare choices for Saturday, February 3rd, 2024:

watermelon cut into chunks and bagged in plastic
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!

We will have 65 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 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!


LARGE big shebang farmshare, $56, will include:

  • 1 bag of baby ARUgula
  • 1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
  • 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
  • 2 lbs. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
  • 1 lb. ZUCCHINI
  • 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM cukeyzukey farmshare, $32, will include:
  • 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
  • 2 lbs. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
  • 1 lb. ZUCCHINI
  • 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
SMALL semispicy salad lover farmshare, $15, will include:
  • 1 bag SPICY/SWEET (blend!) salad mix
  • 1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom)
TOMATO madness farmshare, $10, will include:
  • 2 lbs. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)

(No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):

early birds:
  • RED and YELLOW WATERMELON
  • TOMATO seconds (dent and scratch for soup and salsa, discounted 2 lb. bag)
  • SWEET salad mix
  • pink French breakfast RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
  • baby BEETS with beautiful luscious green tops
  • GREEN BEANS!
  • KALE
  • baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
  • green THAI CHILES! medium hot
  • ZUCCHINI
plenty:
  • HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
  • CHERRY TOMATOES
  • teen ARUGULA
  • CUCUMBERS
    Chinese CABBAGE
    tender crunchy mild salad baby TURNIPS with highly nutritive green tops, $3/bunch
  • assorted COOKING GREENS
  • BUTTERNUT squash
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
Herbs for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Thai basil
  • Lemon 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.

Signup form for
SaturDAY PICKUP
FEBRUARY 3rd, 2024!

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)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
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 Farmshares Saturday 2/12/2022, 11AM-12:30PM: Preorder your Farmshare, Reserve your pickup slot!

Ladybugs are working hard in the fields at ARTfarm, on our pepper plants, the watermelon vines and salad greens. Saturday morning at 11 we’ll start distributions for 40 pre-order customers with fresh greens and more listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots this week in order to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. We are back serving you in the farmstand, but it is still one-at-at-time, so please follow our super social distancing “ladybug game” as posted on the fence and stay spread out. If it’s raining, you can stay in your car and we’ll call your phone or come get you when your pickup group is called. PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE MORE THAN 5 MINUTES EARLY for your pickup slot time!! We are trying to avoid crowds forming!! Grateful for life!!

A ladybug hunts for aphids in the fields at ARTfarm. There are many predatory insects that help farmers grow healthy crops while reducing the need for chemical sprays.

Available farmshare listings below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!

Flower Study with Bone & Nest #11 by Mr. Francis Thomas Capone, from ART SHOW at Café Christine, Jan-Feb 2022. $200 print / $300 piece. Mr. Capone is also still looking for a reliable SUV/pickup/vehicle in the $3-5k range.

Friend-of-the-farm Mr. Francis Capone has a contemporary art exhibit at Café Christine with the unique vibe of the South Shore. Stop by the Café through the end of February and check out his delicate drawings and prints for sale, and relax with some coloring. Crayons provided! Enjoy amazing Café Christine cuisine with lots of ARTfarm produce by Chef Lisa! She is one of ARTfarm’s most consistent chef customers. Outdoor seating for lunch, 11:30am-2:30pm Tuesday-Friday. Menu online, call (340) 713-1500 for reservations.

Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or haven’t been to see us since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:

Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!

Farmshare choices for Saturday, February 12th, 2022:

We will have 40 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 we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.

LARGE farmshare, $36, will include:
  • 2 bags of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of teen arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
  • 1 bag sweet corn
MEDIUM farmshare, $19, will include:
  • 2 bags of sweet salad mix
  • 1 lb. slicer and heirloom tomatoes
SMALL farmshare, $12, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 lb. slicer and heirloom tomatoes
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):

Pre-weighed, bagged and priced produce. For extra protection during the pandemic, we have changed our systems so that transactions are short and socially distanced, customers don’t handle the produce and the farmers don’t handle the change. Thanks for helping keep everyone safe.
early birds:
  • WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
    bag of SWEET CORN: $6 (ears a little smaller, same weight in bag)
    CUCUMBERS: $3.50/bag 1lb.
  • romaine and sweet chonky LETTUCE heads: $3
  • CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
  • slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
  • ONIONS with green edible tops: $5 per bunch
  • ZUCCHINI/summer squash: $3/lb. 1 lb. bag
  • SWEET green pimento cheese PEPPERS: bunch, as marked $3-6
  • CARROTS: $3 bunch
    BABY BOK CHOY, KALE, COLLARDS, DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
  • KALE, CABBAGE leaves: $3 per bunch
  • Chinese CABBAGE head: $5 as marked
plenty:
  • extra bag sweet SALAD GREENS: $7
  • large SWEET CORN ears in the husk: $2-2.50
  • RADISHES: $3 bunch
  • HOT hot hot peppers: $2 bundle
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
  • GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
  • Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
  • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Thai basil
  • Garlic chives
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Cilantro by the bale! or bunch
  • Dill!! LOTS!!
  • Lemongrass
  • Hot peppers incl. Peruvian Lemon Drop, serranos, jalapeños, thai chiles

Please contact us immediately by text and 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.

Signup form for
SATURDAY PICKUP
FEBRUARY 12th, 2022!

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. 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)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
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 Farmshares Saturday 2/5/2022, 11AM-12:15PM: Preorder your Farmshare, Reserve your pickup slot!

Cilantro is peaking! It’s known as an amazing detoxing, digestive boosting herb. We know it’s polarizing, but for those of you who love the flavor of cilantro, here is Farmer Luca’s latest favorite way to incorporate a big fresh bunch into our farm family’s diet:
“Rinse and toss in the blender: one whole bunch of cilantro, one small onion, two medium tomatoes; extras to taste would be a tiny piece of turmeric, some hot pepper, some cumin. Blend until smooth. Use as a sauce, marinade or base flavoring to whatever you’re cooking like chicken or beans, to create a delicious and healthy meal.” Online recipes often add olive oil, garlic and salt to this. If you have a fave cilantro use, pop it in the comments below to share!

Saturday morning at 11 we’ll start distributions for 33 pre-order customers with fresh greens and more listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots this week in order to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE MORE THAN 5 MINUTES EARLY for your pickup slot time!! We are trying to avoid crowds forming!! Grateful for life!!

Cilantro is the green herb phase of the coriander plant. These lovely flowers will feed bees before forming coriander seed pods. We harvest the parsley-like leaves and stems of the young plant as cilantro. The herb is reputed to have powerful detox and digestive-boosting properties and we like to chew it to freshen breath and add it to lots of dishes to remove any heavy metals from the body’s exposures in modern life.

Available farmshare listings below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!

Flower Study with Bone & Nest #11 by Mr. Francis Thomas Capone, from ART SHOW at Café Christine, Jan-Feb 2022. $200 print / $300 piece. Mr. Capone is also still looking for a reliable SUV/pickup/vehicle in the $3-5k range.

Friend-of-the-farm Mr. Francis Capone has a contemporary art exhibit at Café Christine with the unique vibe of the South Shore. Stop by the Café through the end of February and check out his delicate drawings and prints for sale, and relax with some coloring. Crayons provided! Enjoy amazing Café Christine cuisine with lots of ARTfarm produce by Chef Lisa! She is one of ARTfarm’s most consistent chef customers. Outdoor seating for lunch, 11:30am-2:30pm Tuesday-Friday. Menu online, call (340) 713-1500 for reservations.

Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or haven’t been to see us since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:

Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!

Farmshare choices for Saturday, February 5th, 2022:

We will have 33 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 we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.

LARGE farmshare, $33, will include:
  • 2 bags of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of baby arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
MEDIUM farmshare, $23, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of teen arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
SMALL farmshare, $11, will include:
  • 2 heads romaine lettuce
  • 1 lb. petite heirloom and slicer tomatoes
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):

Pre-weighed, bagged and priced produce. For extra protection during the pandemic, we have changed our systems so that transactions are short and socially distanced, customers don’t handle the produce and the farmers don’t handle the change. Thanks for helping keep everyone safe.
  • early birds:
  • WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
  • CUCUMBERS: $3.50/bag 1lb.
  • extra bag teen SPICY or teen ARUGULA SALAD GREENS: $10
  • slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
  • CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
  • SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
  • cute little SWEET PEPPERS, pimento cheese: $3 bundle
  • CARROTS: $3 per bunch
  • BUTTERNUT squash: $3.50/lb. as marked
  • baby BOK CHOY: $3-4 per head
  • KALE, CABBAGE leaves: $3 per bunch
  • Chinese CABBAGE head: $5 as marked
  • plenty:
  • extra bag of SWEET SALAD MIX: $7
  • ZUCCHINI: $3/bag 1lb.
  • DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
  • RADISHES: $3 per bunch
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
  • assorted HOT PEPPERS: $2 bundle
  • baby GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
  • Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
  • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Thai basil
  • Garlic chives
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Cilantro by the bale! or bunch
  • Dill
  • Lemongrass
  • Hot peppers incl. Peruvian Lemon Drop, serranos, jalapeños, thai chiles

Please contact us immediately by text and 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.

Signup form for
SATURDAY PICKUP
FEBRUARY 5th, 2022!

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. 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)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
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 Farmshares Wednesday 2/2/2022, Preorders 4:30-6:15 PM: Reserve one of 43 pickup slots!

An auspicious date, 2-2-2022! Wednesday afternoon at 4:30pm we’ll start distributions for 43 pre-order customers with fresh treats listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. Working together!!

The symmetry of nature never fails to amaze us, even after decades of farming. Beautiful sweet green pimento cheese pepper in conversation with a zinnia flower.

Three different sized available farmshare options are listed below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!

Farmer Luca checking the second batch of sweet corn in the field. Soon come!

Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:

Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!

Farmshare choices for Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022:

We will have 43 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 due to drought related shortages we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to make our farmstand more efficient, transaction times shorter, which minimizes community contact during the pandemic.

Large farmshare, $42, will include:
  • 2 bags of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of baby arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
  • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
  • 1 French breakfast (petite) radish or carrot bunch
Medium farmshare, $22, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 bag of teen arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
  • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
Small farmshare, $13, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
Extra Add-Ons (no reservations, first come first served during your pickup slot for a reserved farmshare)
Our spicy salad mix (in baby and teen sizes) is a perfect treat as a side, a gorgeous garnish, as a mildly cooked green, eaten raw right out of the bag as a healthy snack, or mixed with sweet salad greens to add interest and a hint of peppery flavor. It’s versatile, beautiful and packed with nutrition.
  • plenty:
  • CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
  • slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
  • extra bag sweet SALAD GREENS: $7
  • ZUCCHINI/summer squash: $3/lb. 1 lb. bag
  • DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
  • GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
  • Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
  • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
  • early birds:
  • WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
  • CUCUMBERS: $3.50 per 1 lb. bag
  • ROMAINE lettuce heads: $3 each
  • SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
  • ONIONS with green edible tops: $5 per bunch
  • BUTTERNUT squash: $3.50/lb. as marked
  • BABY BOK CHOY, KALE: $3 per bunch
  • Chinese CABBAGE whole head: $5-7 as marked
  • Chinese CABBAGE bunched leaves: $3 per bunch
  • SWEET green pimento cheese PEPPERS: bunch, as marked $3-6
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS, $2 bunches)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Thai basil
  • Garlic chives
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Cilantro – plenty!
  • Dill – plenty!!
  • Lemongrass
  • Hot peppers incl. serranos, jalapeños, thai chiles

Please contact us immediately by text and 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.

Signup form for
WEDNESday PickUP
FEBRUARY 2nd, 2022!

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. 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)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
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!