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ARTfarm Wednesday PM: High Season Yums… 3/5/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Fresh heirloom tomatoes are at their sweetest at the peak of the season after the rains have mostly stopped!

There’s a natural ebb and flow with the season. For this mid-week stand, we’ll have an abundance of salad greens and more tomatoes and watermelon. Come see us tomorrow afternoon.

It will be first come first served Wednesday. As usual, if the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

Sunday afternoons around 4 PM have become a hot time slot for volunteers. If you’d like to join our little group, give us a call or send a text or reach out through social media or email. If you are 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. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

Watermelon is one of Luca’s favorite crops.

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Baby arugula
  • Baby spicy salad mix 
  • Mini butternut squashes
  • Fresh breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (mixed varieties)
  • Watermelon – red AND yellow!
  • Chinese cabbage leaves – bunched
  • Kale
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Papaya
  • Coconuts (for coconut water)
  • Eggs
  • Green hot peppers
  • Baby Ginger
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Scallions
  • Lemongrass

We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

Baby ginger freshly harvested at ARTfarm.

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, and also these round red things… 2/26/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Cilantro in the gardens goes to flower and turns into coriander seed, eventually. Dill also puts up similar “fireworks” shaped flower clusters and has a strong fennel scent. We like to use them in flower arrangements!

Tomatoes and salad! Tomato seconds available for the early birds, so rock your sassy secret salsas, sauces and soups!

Once again, enjoy the bounty of this winter season. Conditions are starting to dry up on the South Shore, which will make the flavors more pungent, but also means it may be a shorter season. So don’t miss out! Come see us tomorrow afternoon.

Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are pretty regular. It will be first come first served Wednesday. As usual, if the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

Sunday afternoons around 4 PM have become a hot time slot for volunteers. If you’d like to join our little group, give us a call or send a text or reach out through social media or email. If you are 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. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

A closeup of pico di gallo, a fresh raw tomato and herb dish
This is the time of year for pico di gallo and other fresh treats using all the tomatoes!

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Baby arugula
  • Baby spicy salad mix 
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (Japanese  and American slicer)
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Green hot peppers
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Cooking greens
  • Tomato seconds, not pretty but delicious!
  • Baby Ginger
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Small leaf oregano
  • Zinnia flowers
  • Lemongrass
  • A handful of mangoes  for a handful of early birds

We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

The cherry tomatoes are seriously here for 2025!

Salad Greens Pop-Up 4:30 — 5:30pm Wednesday 12/1/2021

Ms. Eurythrma Mongoose in her Finery, ca. 1889. Mixed media on paperboard, 10” x 12.5” ©2021 Marina Gasperi.

Can you believe it’s December tomorrow? Wednesday afternoon pop up at ARTfarm, 4:30pm – 5:30pm. Lots of sweet salad mix, we will not run out of salad mix!!! you can come at 5:30 and still get it. Also radishes, fresh garlic chives, turmeric, dragonfruit and zinnia flowers. Pineapple slips for grow-your-own-ers.

Earlybirds will enjoy baby ginger (first harvest of the season, super thin skin no fibers), Thai basil, lemongrass, fresh Mongoose&Zinnia eggs, and green hot chili peppers.

First come first serve
Please wear a mask and keep social distancing
Bring change and smaller bills or a check

The image above is original artwork from the current exhibition, “Small Life” showing at Café Christine Tues-Fri 10am-2:30pm. Please visit the Café in Christiansted over this holiday time and enjoy this ARTfarm production!

Love, ARTfarmers

Saturday 10am – 12 noon, Cukes & Watermelon

Sorry for the late notice! We just got in from transplanting more lettuce and some scallions for you folks by flashlight!!

Yes we will be open tomorrow (Saturday) December 1st for our regular Saturday hours, 10am – 12 noon.

You want the good news first or the bad news?

Good news: we have in the morning for ya: good quantities of three kinds of watermelon (including a yellow one!), TONS of delicious cucumbers (two kinds), butternut squash, a few bags of baby arugula and baby spicy salad mix, spicy radishes (become completely mild when cooked), turnip greens, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, garlic chives, dill, small amounts of cilantro, rosemary, lemongrass, holy basil, cheerful cut zinnia flowers, pineapple plants, and native trees

Bad news: lots of our lettuce is still too small after all the caterpillar carnage and rain damage, so no sweet mix until next week, probably Wednesday.

We appreciate your support and look forward to seeing you in the morning!