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ARTfarm Saturday Morning Farmstand! 1/24/2026, 10:30AM – 11:30AM! Tomatoes & Spicy Greens & More!

The green tops of these French breakfast radishes are delicious sautéed as a little side dish!

Tomorrow morning’s SATURDAY ARTfarm farmstand features all the tomatoes plus baby arugula, sweet spicy mix, peppers, and limes, and sweet salad mix for the early birds. Some lettuce, heads, cukes, and cooking greens and a few herbs!

We’ll see you today Saturday 1/24/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Slicer tomatoes – so abundant you can come at the very end and still get plenty
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Baby arugula
  • Spicy/sweet salad mix
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest) 

Early Birds

  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Sweet salad mix
  • Frilly romaine lettuce heads
  • Zucchini
  • 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
  • Zinnia cut stem flowers
A young couple with a todder, holding a basket of heirloom tomatoes, stands in a field of banana trees and colorful zinnia flowers.
Memory lane: Luca and Christina with their toddler during the last season of Southgate Farms in 2009.
Our baby spicy salad mix 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, mixed with sweet salad greens to add interest and a hint of pepper. It’s versatile, beautiful and packed with nutrition.

See you Saturday January 24, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!

ARTfarm Popup NYEE! Tuesday PM 12/30/2025, 4:30 – 5:30pm

That’s a full load on the farm cart! Early morning salad mix harvest at ARTfarm!

Tuesday’s December 30th (New Years Eve’s EVE) ARTfarm PopUp features fresh salad greens and a few cherry tomatoes starting! Festive French breakfast radishes and lovely limes. Our season is getting underway.

We’ll see you Tuesday 12/30/25 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm. No reservations; first come, first served.

Plenty

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Zucchini
  • Lettuce heads
  • Italian basil
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Key limes
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green jalapeños and chilis

Early Birds

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers
  • Bunched cooking greens
  • Green sweet frying peppers
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Lemongrass
  • Thai basil
  • Pineapple slips
  • Marigold cut stem flowers
Sweet salad greens in early morning at ARTfarm
Tomato energy is building. Cherry tomatoes for early birds this week!

See you Tuesday afternoon! 4:30 – 5:30pm. Happy Holidays!

ARTfarm miniFRUITY Wednesday PopUp: 9/17/2025, 5-6pm: Dragonfruit and Mangooooooooo! Plus FARM UPDATES

Another round of dragonfruit is ready to enjoy, plus west end vibes with Palmer mangoes from Mount Victory! Come out and enjoy!

Interested in volunteering this season? Come talk with Luca about opportunities to learn and help out.

Father and son goofing around in September.
Kiko isn’t working so much anymore but he still strolls around the farm a bit.

In other farm news, we are working on farm fire recovery, and we’re looking for a 20′ shipping container in good shape with no holes to store replacement materials that were lost in the massive fire in March 2025.

We are purchasing new electric fencing, irrigation equipment and other replacement supplies with funds donated for fire disaster relief. We are deeply grateful to all of you who donated, and thanks to the VI Good Food Coalition for all their hard work organizing and fundraising.

Volunteers, now is the time! Swing by during the farmstand, or send us a message – we’re gearing up for season.

Plenty

  • Dragonfruit (bright red inside! A few with white inside!)
  • Palmer mangoes (from Mount Victory Camp)

Early Birds

  • Turmeric
  • Pomegranate
  • Lemongrass

First come first served!

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

Cover crops are planted in next season’s vegetable rows… Sun Hemp and Swordbean! We zoomed in so you could enjoy a caterpillar’s-eye view!

ARTfarm FRUITY Wednesday PopUp: 8/13/2025, 5-6pm: Watermelon!

Our mango-orange hued watermelons are ready! Also dragonfruit, an assortment of mangoes still, and some salad greens and cukes! Come out and enjoy! And ask about volunteering on the farm.

Delicious orangey-yellow watermelons at ARTfarm

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

Plenty

  • Watermelon (orange inside! So sweet and cooling!)
  • Dragonfruit (bright red inside! Put your white cotton shirt away!)
  • Valencia Pride mangoes (popular variety with 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

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Japanese cucumbers

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

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