Tag: heirloom tomatoes

ARTfarm Monday!!! More FIGS!

Open today and every Monday, 3-6pm! Figs again today, kids! FIGS! Fresh, Mediterranean figs! Creamy avocados grown here at ARTfarm! Crunchy cucumbers today in various varieties! Sweet onions grown in healthy, chemical-free soil! And the usual gang of winter choices: Sweet salad mix, spicy mix, lettuce heads, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, escarole, endive, dandelion greens, Bodhi yard-long purple beans, Italian basil, lemon basil, recao, cilantro, sage, garlic chives, fresh cut zinnia flowers… local honey, and Feel-I’s vegan coconut based local fruit ice creams! Can there be too many exclamation points! Really! I think I have just about reached the limit here! It’s like sitting on a cactus, now! Come out and see us this afternoon!

A face made of vegetables; frilly endive forms the round face with an onion with its top for a nose and eyebrows, a big cucumber smile, and slicer and cherry tomatoes stacked up as the eyes.
ARTfarm produce can really make you smile! Freshly harvested endive, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and more! Get down to the South Shore for some goodness!

Get Pumkn’d at ARTfarm today!

Farmer Luca with a large wheelbarrow full of green skinned pumpkins at ARTfarm.
Farmer Luca with a large wheelbarrow full of green skinned pumpkins at ARTfarm.

Wednesday afternoon stand: Beets, pumpkin whole or by the slice, cucumbers, Italian basil, holy basil, lemon basil, sweet mix, spicy mix, microgreens, baby arugula, onions, scallions, bell peppers, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, red slicing tomatoes, non-dairy coconut based (you’d never know it if we didn’t tell ya) ice cream, and homemade chocolates.

ARTfarm Happy Monday – Ice Cream is Back!

Tiny green orbs pop out of pink spires of mango tree blooms. Soon they will become large, heavy mango fruits.
Tiny green orbs pop out of pink spires of mango tree blooms, at ARTfarm on St. Croix's South Shore. In a few months they will grow to become large, sweet, heavy mango fruits.

Have you noticed it getting drier, windier and hotter this month? Normally things would dry up in January or earlier, but we’ve been blessed with an extended rainy season this year. On the south shore of St. Croix, the air smells different. Pastures are starting to dry up quickly and the hills are changing from a vibrant green to some more muted shades that are shifting into gold and brown. We are watering our crops more often. As the tomatoes get more flavorful on the vine, the mango flowers are starting to set fruit for June.

All this dry heat means that it is time to treat ourselves to a delicious cold frosty Feel I ice cream!! YES! It’s back!! Today we have Feel I’s mango, guava, passionfruit, and banana flavors, all made from local fruit and local coconut cream – no dairy. Get one of each!

We’ve got Sweetface chocolates, too, if you need darker decadance.

If you’re feeling more savory, we’ve got baby spicy salad mix, sweet mix, cherry and big tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkin, scallions, garlic chives, sage, green coriander, Italian basil, sweet and hot peppers.

For a pop of color, go for a bunch of fresh cut zinnias, a sunflower or two, and a papaya!

See you this afternoon, 3-5:30pm.

Tomatoes that Love You Back! ARTfarm 3-5:30pm Today!

Heirloom tomatoes grow in incredible shapes and enormous sizes. Here is a smiling heirloom and a giant stripy heart shaped tomato snuggling on the farm notebooks.
Heirloom tomatoes grow in incredible shapes and enormous sizes. Here is a smiling heirloom and a giant stripy heart shaped tomato snuggling on the farm notebooks, remembering their happy childhood on the vine in the beautiful gardens, surrounded by singing ani birds and the rustling of leaves...

Look at those smiling faces! Sweet, organically and sustainably grown heirloom tomatoes have a flavor that reflects their happy childhood on the vine in a beautiful garden!

Also today: sweet mix, lemon basil, holy basil, Italian basil, parsley, bodhi beans, cucumbers, cooking greens, pumpkin, garlic chives, lemongrass, dill, sage, thyme, onions, lots of big tomatoes, heirlooms, cherry tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, hot peppers, papayas, chocolates, and bright cheery zinnia flowers fresh cut for you!

The tomatoes won’t last forever (the mango trees are flowering!!) so come and enjoy some while the season is still in full swing!