Big and little tomatoes are coming in! Plus, arugula, spicy salad mixes, cukes and zukes, herbs, cooking greens and root veggies! Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup on Saturday (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 45 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times, for Saturday starting at 10:30am!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP IN THE LAST HALF HOUR – PLUS there will be another signup Wednesday. Instructions below if you’re new. Welcome!
Beautiful wildflowers from trees and plants around the farm attract pollinator insects and help our harvest be more bountiful.
Saturday morning we’ll have preorder selections that include bags of spicy AND arugula salad mixes, cucumbers and zucchini, and cherry and slicing tomatoes. Extras to add on at your pickup time will include: extra greens, summer and butternut squashes, baby bok choy, beautiful bunched pink radishes with edible green tops, crunchy ‘salad’ turnips with hyperhealthy green cooking tops, assorted fresh herbs including cilantro, dill, Italian basil, garlic chives, lemongrass.
Trailer project nearly finished! Send us a Linoleum Person! ARTfarm’s new processing center, funded in part by a grant from World Central Kitchen, is a 40 foot (retired) insulated shipping container getting a retrofit as walk-ins and indoor/outdoor workspace. We’re looking for help with installing vinyl sheet flooring, if you know someone with experience installing this waterproof material please send them our way! We are SO CLOSE to being done.
Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time. We have a range of activities for all abilities/fitness levels, including full-body cardio activities, and zen mellow seated-in-the-shade options. You’ll learn about regenerative organic farming practices, market gardening, construction and/or food prep. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency.
Remember the best way to support agriculture and scenic farmland in the US Virgin Islands is to buy produce directly from farmers.
Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!
New to ARTfarm? WELCOME!
We’ve always had pretty big enthusiastic crowds at our farmstands, which are seasonal and typically twice-a-week brief events. During early COVID times in 2020 to expand elbow room, we switched to a pre-order system instead of open farmstands: Order/reserve at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please arrive in our parking lot on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. You’ll find a quick transaction with additional selections to “add-on” to your reserved farmshare. We appreciate your cooperation!
At the stand, please honor others’ personal space (and wear a mask if you’re not feeling well to keep our staff healthy). We’ll call your name during your timeslot in order of signup. Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag your items on the table until we’ve totaled everything up; bring cash (small bills appreciated) or check please. We have a blue bucket for your payment!
ARTfarm is a three generation family farm. Luca’s dad (pictured here in 2022) has farmed on this spot since the late 1960s, although when he was in charge it was a Senepol cow pasture! In 2024, salad greens and radishes for all!
Please note: With flu season in swing and Farmer Luca caring for his elderly folks, we’d appreciate if all customers would help us stay healthy and working, and PLEASE maintain social distancing when interacting at the ARTfarm stand. We shall do the same! We are all one! Grateful for life!!
ARTfarm is a tiny mom and pop and kid family tropical farm. We’re small and bio-diverse on 40 acres. We’ve been growing food with regenerative organic and permaculture methods on St. Croix since 1999. See our FAQs for more info!
Thank you!
Farmshare choices for Saturday, January 20th, 2024:
A rainbow of cherry tomatoes round out the tomato season at ARTfarm.
We will have 45 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Saturday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and you can order more than one farmshare. At the farmstand, you can choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We require a minimum farmshare purchase because we are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; but we’ll do our best to make substitutions as needed; we want you to be happy!
LARGE cherry cukey farmshare, $30, will include:
1 bag of baby ARUgula
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. ZUCCHINI
2 lbs. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM slicers-n-spicers farmshare, $24, will include:
1 lb. tomatoes (slicer/heirloom)
1 bag of teen spicy salad mix
1 lb. zucchini
1 lb. cucumbers
SMALL cherry cukey farmshare, $13, will include:
1 pint cherry tomatoes
2 lbs. cucumbers
ZUCCHINI LOVER farmshare, $8, will include:
2 lb. zucchini! Bake-a da bread! Make-a de zoodles! Grill-a da slabs!! (More ideas HERE)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)
(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
BUTTERNUT squash
CHERRY TOMATOES
baby BOK CHOY
plenty:
teen SPICY salad MIX
CUCUMBERS ZUCCHINI
pink RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
tender crunchy mild salad TURNIPS with highly nutritive green tops, $3/bunch
assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herbs for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS)
Italian (Genovese) basil
Thai basil
Lemon basil
Cilantro
Dill
Garlic chives
Kaffir lime leaves
Lemongrass
Please contact us immediately by text and/or phone at (340) 514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.
The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘All Mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. (And then, add us to your address book!) For more tips, visit our Help page.
Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here): Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.
A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.
Q: My order isn’t going through.
if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
and the ‘all mail’ folder
make sure all required fields are filled/selected
just try again
use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
restart your browser/device
clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.
Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.
Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.
Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!
Saturday morning at 11 we’ll start distributions for 40 pre-order customers with fresh greens and more listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots this week in order to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. Grateful for life!!
Don’t be afraid of cooking greens. They can be surreptitiously added, finely chopped, to all kinds of dishes to add major micronutrients to your family’s diet practically undetected. Or celebrate them openly with garlic and oil in a quick sauteéd side dish.
Available farmshare listings below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!
Flower Study with Bone & Nest #11 by Mr. Francis Thomas Capone, from ART SHOW at Café Christine, Jan-Feb 2022. $200 print / $300 piece. Mr. Capone is also still looking for a reliable SUV/pickup/vehicle in the $3-5k range.
Friend-of-the-farm Mr. Francis Capone has a contemporary art exhibit at Café Christine with the unique vibe of the South Shore. Stop by the Café through the end of February and check out his delicate drawings and prints, and relax with some coloring. Crayons provided! Enjoy amazing Café Christine cuisine with lots of ARTfarm produce by Chef Lisa! She is one of ARTfarm’s most consistent chef customers. Outdoor seating for lunch, 11:30am-2:30pm Tuesday-Friday. Menu online, call (340) 713-1500 for reservations.
Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or haven’t been to see us since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:
Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!
Farmshare choices for Saturday, January 22nd, 2022:
We will have 40 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Saturday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment.Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.
Baby Greens farmshare, $26, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 bag of baby arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
1 lb. slicer tomatoes
Cherry Tomatoes farmshare, $13, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 pint cherry tomatoes
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)
(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):
Customers worry about how to cook our ‘summer squash’ but it’s really just a yellow zucchini. Stuff, sauté, fry, bake, roast… you can even make zucchini bread. So delicious!
early birds:
WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
CUCUMBERS: $3.50/bag 1lb.
extra bag teen SPICY or teen ARUGULA SALAD GREENS: $10
CARROTS: $3 per bunch
SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
BUTTERNUT squash: $3.50/lb. as marked
baby BOK CHOY: $3-4 per head
KALE, CABBAGE leaves: $3 per bunch
Chinese CABBAGE head: $5 as marked
plenty:
slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
ZUCCHINI/summer squash: $3/bag 1lb.
DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
baby GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS)
Italian (Genovese) basil
Thai basil
Garlic chives
Kaffir lime leaves
Cilantro
Dill
Hot peppers incl. serranos, jalapeños, thai chiles
Please contact us immediately by text and phone at (340)514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.
The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.
Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here): Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.
A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.
Q: My order isn’t going through.
if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
and the ‘all mail’ folder
make sure all required fields are filled/selected
just try again
use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
restart your browser/device
clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.
Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.
Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.
Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!
Mountains of fresh crisp salad greens and sweet yellow and red watermelons at this time of year! Wednesday afternoon at 4:30pm we’ll start distributions for 45 pre-order customers with fresh treats listed below… Once again for your safety and ours we have returned to our pandemic preorders with scheduled customer pickup timeslots to keep crowds of more than ten customers from forming. Working together!!
Gardening at night! To conserve our precious and dwindling water reservoirs, Luca does a regular night shift in the dry times. Because the 2022 water tables are still empty from a fall season with no rain, he is typically watering the farm between 9 PM and midnight. It is a contemplative time of day to discover things like this monarch butterfly chrysalis on a fig tree.
Available farmshare options are listed below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!
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, or mixed with sweet salad greens to add interest and a hint of pepper. It’s versatile, beautiful and packed with nutrition.
Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:
Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totalled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!
Farmshare choices for Wednesday, January 26th, 2022:
We will have 45 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and due to drought related shortages we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment.Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.
Hungrier farmshare, $30, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 bag of baby arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 bunch tender cooking greens
Smaller farmshare, $22, will include:
1 bag of sweet salad mix
1 bag of teen arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.)
1 lb. slicer tomatoes
Unpeeled ARTfarm pineapple slips are priced according to size. From four dollars for the very largest down to one dollar for the smallest slips. These slips, unpeeled, can be stored for several weeks before planting. They are quite tough and hardy and a relatively drought resistant and decorative crop. These shown are $3, $2 and $1 each.
Extra Add-Ons (no reservations, first come first served during your pickup slot for a reserved farmshare)
early birds:
WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
CUCUMBERS: $3.50/lb. 1 lb. bag
extra bag BABY SPICY SALAD GREENS: $14
ROMAINE lettuce heads: $3
SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
BUTTERNUT squash: $3.50/lb. as marked
long GREEN BEANS: $3 per bunch
BABY BOK CHOY, KALE: $3 per bunch
Chinese CABBAGE head: $5 as marked
plenty:
CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
extra bag sweet SALAD GREENS: $7
ZUCCHINI/summer squash: $3/lb. 1 lb. bag
DANDELION greens: $3 per bunch
assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution
(Available as EXTRAS)
Italian (Genovese) basil
Thai basil
Garlic chives
Kaffir lime leaves
Cilantro
Dill
Lemongrass
Hot peppers incl. serranos, jalapeños, thai chiles
Please contact us immediately by text and phone at (340)514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.
The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.
Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here): Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.
A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.
Q: My order isn’t going through.
if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
and the ‘all mail’ folder
make sure all required fields are filled/selected
just try again
use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
restart your browser/device
clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.
Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.
Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.
Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 