Farmer Luca will be open 5 to 6 pm Wednesday at the farm with sweet stuff… Sweet mangoes, sweet salad mix for earlybirdies, peppers, radishes and herbs. Enjoy!
End of June/early July: Nam doc mai mangoes are ripe and ready. Butterballs and pink pomegranates are also ripening.
(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) smooth!!! And thin seed.
Viequen Butterball mangoes
Haitian kidney mangoes
Pomegranates – large pink, Zürich
Seasoning and serrano peppers
Large pink daikon radishes
Turmeric
Early birds
Dragonfruit
Limes (local)
Kafir leaves
Lemongrass
Italian and Thai Basil
First come first serve.
We named this mango the ‘Viequen Butterball’ for its size, sweet mellowness and lack of fiber. Tita would bring us these mangoes.
Hey folks, despite the wetness and rain Farmer Luca will be open 5 to 6 this afternoon with lots of goodies, veggies and watermelon. Enjoy!
Ravishing Radishes – They grow faster than the bugs can keep up with! The crunchy bottoms can be eaten raw (peppery) or used as a root vegetable cooked (mild). The tops are more nutritious than the root, and can be used as salad or cooking greens. Some folks make smoothies with them! Don’t waste an inch of this mighty veggie! We love them sliced thin in oil and vinegar with a pinch of salt.
Farmer Lindsey Simmonds was one of many volunteers who arrived with family, firefighting equipment, and muscle to help us extinguish smoldering fencing posts and plant material.
Saturday mid-morning quick mini farmstand 11am – 11:30am, first come first served.
Huge thanks to all the volunteers and farm family who came out to help us on Sunday afternoon during the brush fire and into the dark hours, to extinguish most of the smoldering fence posts, tree stumps and embers. No words to express our deep thanks.
See the top post on our site for ways to donate to support our recovery from this massive fire that burned more than half the farm and destroyed a lot of infrastructure.
Rain showers have been helpful but crops still need to be watered. A number of our mainline water transport lines got melted in the fire. Farmer Luca is working to replace those lines to resume watering crops on the outer edges of production area.
Volunteering details
We will be meeting at the farm entrance at 4pm on Saturday and Sunday to clear fence lines of burnt treated lumber. Please be on time. Non-smokers/non-tobacco users only please.
Response has been big for this weekend. There will be more volunteering efforts after this weekend, and if turnout is overwhelming for this weekend’s cleanup we may ask a few folks to sit this one out. We may put an online volunteer signup system in place.
We want to impress upon those thinking about helping, that the fire was only recently fully extinguished, and air quality is still poor in these pasture areas. Windy conditions continue to lift ash and blow it around. Masks are absolutely suggested. Folks with respiratory issues should not come. Also know that there will be lots of walking. If you have mobility issues, consider not coming to this session. We will have other volunteer days coming up as well.
Our main focus this weekend is going to be clearing fence lines of burned treated lumber (telephone poles), and collecting burnt plastic and other waste materials. Possibly some documentation and assessment tasks as well. Protect your skin.
Lastly, if you are a tobacco smoker or user, we really would prefer if you would not help. It is still tomato season and there’s still a chance that our crops will get tobacco mosaic virus from having you out here handling tools, supplies and gates.
Volunteers, please bring:
Gloves, long sleeves
Dust mask or fabric mask
Good sturdy work shoes
Drinking water and snacks
Loppers for pruning dead branches and vines off fencing
Wire cutters for cutting burnt areas off electric netting
A wheelbarrow if you have one
MiniARTfarmstand for Saturday:
Sweet salad mix
Heirloom tomatoes
Slicer tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes
Tomato seconds
Baby bok Choy
Bunched arugula
Scallions
Baby turmeric
Hot green and red peppers
Basil
Cilantro
Parsley
Dill
Kaffir leaves
First come first served. Grateful for your support of our family farm. See you Saturday 11am – 11:30am
Gorgeous freshly harvested ginger and turmeric can be used for so many healthy treats!
Saturday mid-morning quick mini farmstand 11am – 11:30am! It will be first come first served.
In other farm news, Farmer Christina has been announced as the new Editor-In-Chief of our local culture, events and arts publication, St. Croix This Week Magazine. We congratulate her on this new exciting role in our community! Watch for Christina’s photo of ARTfarm zinnias on the May cover! And another congratulations is due to our long-time ARTfarm customer and supporter Susan Wall, who is retiring from the job after 16 years. Well done!
Magical stripy heirlooms and hyperfresh lettuces, ready to inspire your culinary skills!
Plenty for All
Sweet salad mix
Heirloom tomatoes
Slicer tomatoes
Early Birds
Cherry tomatoes
Baby bok Choy
Bunched arugula
Kale
Tomato seconds
Yams
Baby ginger and turmeric
Green and red hot peppers
Sweet frying peppers
Basil
Cilantro
Dill
Parsley
Kaffir leaves
First come first served! Grateful for your support of our family farm! See you Saturday 11am – 11:30am!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 