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ARTfarm Wednesday Afternoon Farmstand! 2/4/2026, 4:30 – 5:30PM! All the TOMATOES!

Honking juicy heirloom and slicer tomatoes! Get yer vitamins in the most appealing package possible!

Gosh, that was a lot of rain! This will improve many crops and green up our pastures. We would welcome even more of it, but just not during Wednesday afternoon’s farm stand!

Tomorrow afternoon’s Wednesday ARTfarm stand features plenty of slicer, heirloom and cherry tomatoes, watermelon for early bird customers, veggies and salad greens!

We could use some volunteers for general farm work and some carpentry.

We’ll see you Wednesday 2/4/26 from 4:30 to 5:30PM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Lettuce heads
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Teen arugula
  • Teen spicy salad mix
  • Italian basil
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest)

Early Birds

  • Yellow and red watermelon (cut and whole)
  • Pomegranates
  • Sweet salad mix (rain reduced harvest)
  • Bunched arugula
  • Zucchini & yellow summer squash
  • Cucumbers (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Thai basil
  • Italian basil
  • Marigold and zinnia cut stem flowers

Grow Your Own

  • Tomato seedlings
  • Dragonfruit cuttings
  • Discounted mixed flower seedlings
Kafir lime leaves give an excellent citrus aroma; used like a bay leaf in cooking!
Garden of Small Lives. Sumi ink and gouache on paper, 6” x 6” ©2021 Marina Gasperi.

See you Wednesday February 4, 2026, starting at 4:30PM!

ARTfarm Delicious Saturday PopUp: 8/9/2025, 11am – 12 noon: Cool Cukes, Sweet Salad and a few more Mangoes!

ARTfarm Mango season is winding down, but volunteering is starting back up! Christof may be back with more fresh fish, as well. Come and see us on Saturday at 11am! List below:

Tita’s Viequan Butterball mangoes…

(Most of our mangoes are smaller this year with the drier conditions which creates an extra intense flavor and sweetness)

Plenty

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Japanese cucumbers! Yum!
  • Valencia Pride mangoes (popular variety with an elongated shape and bright flavor)
  • Viequen Butterball mangoes
  • Haitian kidney mangoes
  • Mallika mango (tastes like a super sweet and creamy orange, one of Luca’s favorites)
  • Alphonso mangoes (popular Indian variety)
  • Carrie mangoes (too delicate for stores)
  • Turmeric

Early Birds

  • Pomegranate (large pink “Chinese Apple” that is definitely not a mango)
  • Limes

First come first served! Grateful for your support of our family farm!

Beautiful sweet summer lettuces coming up in August 2025 at ARTfarm

There is a ”Heart Of The Block” sunset memorial and free music concert fundraiser happening on Saturday August 9th at 5pm in Christiansted near the boardwalk in memory of local performing artist/comedian Jordan “Dutty Heart” Jones and others who have been lost to gun violence. VIP ticket sales proceeds will benefit CMCArts.

Take a stand against gun violence by supporting the arts. Free online registration is required to enter through the security checkpoints. Wear orange. For more information visit yellowcedarmedia.com.

ARTfarm SWEETSWEET Saturday PopUp: 7/26/2025, 11am – 12 noon: Sweet Mix, Dragonfruit and Sweet Mangoes to SAMPLE!

ARTfarm has summer salad greens, dragonfruit, PLUS a curated selection of delicious not-so-stringy grafted mangoes for you to try. AND THERE WILL BE SAMPLES!!!

a bicycle basket full of ripe ARTfarm mangoes in St Croix, USVI
Delicious varieties of ARTfarm mangoes! Stay sweet people! Stay sweet!

(Most of our mangoes are smaller this year with the drier conditions which creates an extra intense flavor and sweetness)

Plenty

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Dragonfruit (red inside!)
  • Thai mangoes (nam doc mai, and pram kai mei, of the silky smooth sweet flesh thin seed variety)
  • Jakarta mangoes (possibly the prettiest and tastiest yet least documented mango)
  • Viequen Butterball mangoes
  • Haitian kidney mangoes
  • Mallika mango (tastes like a super sweet and creamy orange, one of Luca’s favorites)
  • Alphonso mangoes (popular Indian variety)
  • Carrie mangoes (too delicate for stores)
  • Pomegranate (large pink “Chinese Apple” that is definitely not a mango)
  • Turmeric

Early Birds

  • Limes
  • Cut mangoes to sample and taste!!! YUM!!

First come first served! Grateful for your support of our family farm!

Our sweet salad mix is colorful and homegrown, and harvested the day before you take it home!

ARTfarm SWEETSWEET Wednesday PopUp: 7/23/2025, 5-6pm: Sweet Mix and Sweet Mangoes to SAMPLE!

ARTfarm has summer salad greens, PLUS a curated selection of delicious not-so-stringy grafted mangoes for you to try. AND THERE WILL BE SAMPLES!!!

Mallika mango. Tastes like TANG! Sends your taste buds to outer space!!

(Most of our mangoes are smaller this year with the drier conditions which creates an extra intense flavor and sweetness)

Plenty

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Thai mangoes (nam doc mai, of the silky smooth sweet flesh thin seed variety, and also pram Kai Mei, that taste like Totoros with zero soot sprites)
  • Jakarta mangoes (possibly the prettiest and tastiest yet least documented mango)
  • Viequen Butterball mangoes
  • Haitian kidney mangoes
  • Mallika mango (tastes like a super sweet and creamy orange, one of Luca’s favorites)
  • Alphonso mangoes (popular Indian variety)
  • Carrie mangoes (too delicate for stores)
  • Pomegranate (large pink “Chinese Apple” that is definitely not a mango)
  • Turmeric

Early Birds

  • Dragonfruit
  • Cut mangoes to sample and taste!!! YUM!!

First come first served! Grateful for your support of our family farm! See you Wednesday 5-6pm!

Nam doc Mai mango