fruit – ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI

ARTfarm Wednesday Afternoon PopUp Farmstand: 6/3/2026, 4:30PM – 5:30PM – tons of SALAD GREENS!

Pineapples are popping in the pasture gardens! Get some of these sweeties while you can!

Fresh salad greens available for Wednesday June 3rd 2026! It’s also pineapple and mango time! Dry, hot and windy conditions persist at the farm so most veggie production is at a low point at this time of year for us on the South Shore. We do our best to keep a closed loop system by not purchasing water. So come out for salad greens NOW from previous rains. We’ll also have hot peppers, herbs and lime leaves! First come first serve.

Plenty

Sweet salad mix
Pineapples
Mangoes, including Carrie, Viequen Butterball, Nam doc mai, Malika, and Jakarta types

Early Birds

Hot peppers
Italian basil
Kafir lime leaves

We had a soil scientist checking out our composting program recently. He was excited about our mix of water hyacinth (aka water lettuce, grows in our ponds with fine and plentiful water roots that pick up sediment and algae) and chicken manure. After it’s composted, millipedes ‘finish’ it. We’ll be working to produce more of this black gold for the crops this coming season!

The 2026 summer mangoes are starting up at ARTfarm! From trees that Luca and Christina planted just after when the training pen had her first micro flock of sheep in it. The trees are producing beautifully after the 2017 hurricane set them back.

There’s a few volunteers working on a carpentry project and Farmer Luca could use more help in the gardens.

We’ll see you Wednesday 6/3/26 from 4:30PM to 5:30PM!

Five hair sheep pastured with electric netting at ARTfarm. — Christina’s first five hair sheep pastured with electric netting in the training pen at ARTfarm back in 2011. Now a mango orchard! Always growing, always changing.

See you Wednesday June 3rd 2026, starting at 4:30PM!

ARTfarm Saturday Fruit PopUp Farmstand! 5/30/2026, 10:30 – 11:30 AM

Giant, single mango harvest, November 2024

We’ll be open SATURDAY 10:30am to 11:30am, with early summer fruits, salad greens and more! Pineapples, mangoes and papaya, sweet salad mix, papaya, hot and mild peppers, herbs and kaffir limes! Check the list below for all the details.

We’ll see you Saturday 5/30/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.

Delicious

Pineapples
Papayas
Mangoes, including Carrie, Viequen Butterball, Nam doc Mai and Malika
Kafir lime leaves
Hot peppers
Scallions
Italian basil
Lemongrass

ARTfarm papayas are SO SWEET! Many folks shy away from papaya, but the fruit contains helpful enzymes to improve digestion. A papaya skin poultice was an old remedy for cuts and burns, and the leaves juiced are just about the bitterest thing you’ll ever consume but is taken to fight mosquito-borne rheumatic fever diseases like dengue and chikungunya. The unripe fruit makes a delicious slaw. If you haven’t been a fan, it is worth another try!

See you Saturday May 30th, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!

ARTfarm Wednesday Afternoon Farmstand: 5/27/2026, 4:30PM – 5:30PM

Summer’s almost here! It’s pineapple time! Dry and windy conditions persist at the farm with occasional showers. No more regular Saturdays for a bit so slide in on a WEDNESDAY to the ARTfarm farmstand. Limited quantities on salad mixes for Wednesday customers, plus papayas, a few early mangoes, hot peppers, herbs and limes!

We are continuing to grow salad and we’re trying a bed of cucumbers and watermelon with new techniques. Results are looking promising. Dragonfruit are budding again.

Pineapples are popping! Get some of these sweeties while you can!

There’s a few volunteers working on a carpentry project and Farmer Luca could use more help in the gardens.

We’ll see you Wednesday 5/27/26 from 4:30PM to 5:30PM!

First come, first served:

Sweet and spicy salad mix

Pineapples

Papaya

Hot peppers

Mangoes:

Carrie (creamy, sweet with a slight tang)

Butterball

Nam doc mai

And a few Malika

Scallions

Italian basil

Lemongrass

Kafir lime leaves

See you Wednesday May 27th 2026, starting at 4:30PM!

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.