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 Saturday Morning Farmstand! 1/17/2026, 10:30AM – 11:30AM! Plenty Tomatoes! (no salad greens)

If you want a green thumb (and fingers, and clothing) pick tomatoes for a few hours.

Tomorrow morning’s SATURDAY ARTfarm PopUp is the tomato party you’ve been waiting for! Heirlooms, cherries and slicers are starting to become available. Lettuce is catching up on growth so no salad greens today! Soon come!

We’ll see you today Saturday 1/17/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Italian basil
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest) 

Early Birds

  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard, cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Baby white turnips with green tops
  • Thai basil
  • Marigold and zinnia cut stem flowers
Farmer Luca sorting and stacking heirloom tomatoes in the field. Our Haley farm cargo trike holds about half a pickup truck of produce per load, human powered!
Turnips with beautiful green tops. Cook ’em like potatoes.

See you Saturday January 17, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!

ARTfarm Wednesday: OPEN Farmstand 4/16/2025, 5 – 6 PM, Volunteers Welcome on Sat-Sun, no Saturday farmstand

The farmstand will be first come first served Wednesday, 5-6pm. Tomatoes, salad greens, veggies, herbs. Full list below. No reservations. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support. We’re gonna stop doing Saturdays for a bit here. Thank you.

Links and information on the fire recovery are available HERE.

Huge thanks to the ARTfarm volunteers, fellow farmers, former employees, customers, neighbors and friends who helped fight the brushfire on March 30th that burned 80% of the farm. Kind people dropped off meals, picked up our grocery tab, and performed other kindnesses in the following days.

Superhero ARTfarm volunteers heading out at sunset after an afternoon helping

The fire destroyed a lot of pasture fencing, irrigation pipe and plastic water tanks, some crops and fruit trees, a few livestock, and a storage shed. Volunteers who want to come out and continue to assist can help: assess damage, repair and clear fence lines this weekend again on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm. No tobacco users please, and bring your own water, mask, sturdy shoes and gloves, loppers and hand saws, chainsaws, pole saws if you have them. The air quality is good now. You can text us if you think you’re going to attend. It has been a small and steady group of helpers.

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Tomatoes – slicers, heirlooms and cherries
  • Yams

Early Birds

  • Cucumbers
  • Pumpkin
  • Bunched arugula
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Chinese cabbage
  • Kale
  • Baby bok choy
  • Baby turmeric
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Green and red hot peppers
  • Sweet frying peppers
  • Italian basil
  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Scallions
  • Kaffir lime leaves

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

Getting to the end of the season, but these beauties are still sweet and delicious. Come and get ‘em!

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: Debris cleanups, OPEN Farmstand 4/9/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Awesome ARTfarm volunteers and neighbors came out this past weekend to help assess damage and clear debris.

We had a bad brushfire on March 30th that destroyed a lot of pasture fencing, irrigation pipe and tanks, some crops and fruit trees, a few livestock, and a storage shed. Volunteers who want to come out and continue to assist can help: assess damage, collect burn debris into a waste bin, and clear fence lines this weekend again on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm. No tobacco users please, and bring your own water, mask, sturdy shoes and gloves, loppers and hand saws, chainsaws, pole saws, wheelbarrows and shovels if you have them. The air quality is improving. We have N95 masks available.

Links and information are available HERE and at the farmstand, for anyone who wishes to donate to our recovery directly OR in a fully tax deductible manner through the VI Good Food Coalition, a local non-profit farm advocacy organization who will redirect 100% of donated FARM FIRE campaign funds back to our recovery.

Incredibly, the guinea grass is resprouting after a few days of showers. The trees are showing fewer if any signs of recovery so far.

Huge thanks to the ARTfarm volunteers, fellow farmers, former employees, customers, neighbors and friends who dropped everything to join our family and members of the VI Fire Service during the initial aftermath of the blaze and dropping off meals and other kindnesses in the following days.

Wildlife and ecosystems were heavily affected by the fire, including beneficial insects that help eliminate pests.

In case you missed the information: This was a more devastating fire than the one set five years ago. We lost a lot of wild and planted trees, our equipment storage shed where ALL of our backup fencing supplies were stored, large water tanks and fittings, irrigation equipment, electric sheep and deer netting and equipment, and (we are still assessing how many) gates, wooden posts, steel posts and hundreds of linear feet of barbed and page wire fencing destroyed.

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.

The fire took about seven hours for the VIFS to extinguish and another several days of spot-treating flareups and embers, and smoldering gate posts. Two of our teen’s beloved turkeys died from bee stings and smoke inhalation the day after the fire. Countless bird nests, wild animals, beneficial insects and topsoil fauna and flora were destroyed. Deer were trapped in broken fencing as they tried to flee.

The farmstand will be first come first served Wednesday. No reservations. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Sweet and spicy salad mix

Early Birds

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Teen arugula
  • Yams
  • Tomato seconds
  • Chinese cabbage
  • Baby bok choy
  • Baby turmeric
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Green and red hot peppers
  • Sweet frying peppers
  • Italian basil
  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Scallions
  • Kaffir lime leaves

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

Our beautiful heirloom and slicer tomatoes are still available! Season is coming to an end… Come and get ‘em!