Oh yeah!! Big and little tomatoes aplenty now! And once again, enjoy tender baby arugula, spicy salad mixes, cukes and zukes, herbs, cooking greens and root veggies! Sweet mix soon returning to the lineup. Join our scheduled zippy-pickup on Wednesday (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 dibs on the extra items we have, with small groups and short wait times, for Wednesday starting at 4:30pm!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP IN THE LAST HALF HOUR – PLUS there will be another signup Friday for Saturday morning pickups. Instructions below if you’re new. Welcome!
ARTfarm lettuce seedlings in different varieties are watered by hand with rainwater collected here at the farm. The lettuces are grown from seed and transplanted into companion planted garden beds before harvesting for our sweet salad mix! Yum!
Wednesday afternoon we’ll have preorder selections that include bags of baby 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! We seek 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 Wednesday, January 24th, 2024:
Festive colors and gorgeous textures are a feast for the eyes and make a beautiful table. The flavors combine sweet and spicy, with pungent mustard greens that can stand up to a creamy textured dressing. YUM!
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 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 everything farmshare, $50, will include:
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. TOMATOES (mixed heirloom, slicers)
1 bag of baby ARUgula
1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
1 lb. ZUCCHINI
2 lbs. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM spicy farmshare, $33, will include:
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 lb. slicing TOMATOES (mixed heirloom, slicers)
1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
1 lb. ZUCCHINI
1 lb. CUCUMBERS
SMALL baby farmshare, $24, will include:
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
1 bag of baby ARUgula
1 lb. 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 by the pint
teen SPICY salad MIX
baby GINGER fresh harvested
plenty:
slicing TOMATOES (mixed heirloom, slicers)
CUCUMBERS
ZUCCHINI
baby BOK CHOY
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!
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!
Sometimes we sell out of reserved spaces and farmshares – but we still have excess produce to sell!
The squash vines are kickin’ out lots of zukes at ARTfarm! We grow different varieties and colors, but they all can be used the same way in the kitchen.
We’re OPEN today Wednesday January 3rd 2024 – our reservations are FULL from 4:30-5:30pm BUT we’ll stay OPEN at 5:30pm for a 30 minute POP-UP (no reservations, first-come first-serve) roadside farmstand BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF FOOD! For sure we’ll have gorgeous green zucchini, Italian basil and cilantro, and crunchy radishes with edible tops, plus some other herbs, possibly some bags of spicy salad mixes, cooking greens… hard to predict exactly what we’ll have but there’ll be extra! This is quick, just half an hour!
Farm and garden volunteers are still needed. We have both meditative volunteering and/or cardio/workout volunteering possibilities. Call or email us! Non-smokers/non-vapers/non-tobacco users please.
Dragonfruit on the vine at ARTfarm. These fruits are a drought-resistant sweet delight!
We’re OPEN tomorrow Saturday at 10:30am for a POP-UP (no reservations, first-come first-serve) early season farmstand. Sweet salad mix and dragonfruit (red and pink)! Pink sweet ‘n’ spicy radishes, plus fresh herbs: Italian, Thai and lemon basils, lemongrass, small-leaf Italian oregano, and fresh juicy garlic chives. This is quick, just half an hour!
Thanks to all who came out for our ARTfarm ART exhibition December 1st and the closing party last weekend! If you missed it or purchased an artwork and want to pick it up, “Hope For the Future” at Studio Walsh gallery in Peters Rest is coming down Saturday. The gallery will be open for final viewing 10am -12 noon, and pickup 12 – 2pm.
Who’s The Puppet Master? (c)2023 Marina Gasperi. Assemblage from South Shore beach marine debris. A stray dog chases a Zenaida dove in an allegory about climate change. In the background, one of Mike Walsh’s signature sculptures (“God”) looms.
Farm and garden volunteers are still needed. We have both meditative volunteering and/or cardio/workout volunteering possibilities. Call or email us! Non-smokers/non-vapers/non-tobacco users please.
Things are still quiet, so not expecting a throng. Looking forward to seeing you! Thank you so much.
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 