ARTfarm Saturday Pickups March 16th! 10:30am – 12:30 (or open hour walk-ins 12-1pm) LONGAN madness

Longan fruits, shown whole and broken open to expose the flesh
Longans at ARTfarm. These addictive little fruits pack a sweet crunchy juicy punch inside a leathery outer skin. High in Vitamin C.

LONGANS are in season! Have you tried dragon eye fruit? Super sweet and surprising! Also TOMATOES galore – especially cherry tomatoes – reserve an earlier shopping time or just come 12-1pm!

Come early for first dibs on an ever changing array of always organically grown extra fruit and veggie seasonal items: fruits, greens, various tomatoes, herbs and specialty ingredients, squashes, peppers, onions, ginger and turmeric, radishes and turnips with edible leafy tops, assorted fresh herbs and other stuff. Exhaustive and more accurate list below.

Longans grow in thick clusters on small trees planted in deep moisture retaining beds at ARTfarm. They are a sweet relative of genip, rambutan and lychee.

Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of dozens of pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times!) If you missed this signup, you can JUST SHOW UP in the last half hour for OPEN SHOPPING and we’ll fit you in for extras – PLUS there will be another signup in a couple of days. Detailed instructions, and questions answered HERE if you’re new. Welcome!

• BE AN ON-FARM VOLUNTEER. Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). As brief as two hours at a time. Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants! Fun rides in the farm carts! Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!

ARTfarm NEEDS:

• an experienced Linoleum Flooring Installer. Please send us someone!

Farmshare choices for Saturday, March 16th, 2024:

Various French and Italian heirloom green bean varieties we are trying out this season! Yum!

We will have 45 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup. 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 add on available first-come-first-serve 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!

Please note: Produce (including tomatoes) labeled “seconds” should be used/refrigerated immediately. Cucumbers are a mix of asian, middle eastern and hardy slicing types.

LARGE cukeababyrugumato farmshare, $46, will include:
  • 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
  • 1 bag of baby ARUgula
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
  • 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM spicycherrymato farmshare, $34, will include:
  • 1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
SMALL sweetpoundpint farmshare, $19, will include:
  • 1 bag SWEET salad mix
  • 1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
HEADY summercrisp farmshare, $10, will include:
  • 2 heads LARGE RED TINTED summer crisp LETTUCE
TOMATO farmshare, $10, will include:
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
  • ZUCCHINI
  • CUCUMBERS
  • LONGAN fruit (related to genip, lychee, rambutan – vitamin C!)
  • euro GREEN BEANS medley – no passport required
  • ONIONS with green onion tops!
  • white (sweet-spicy) RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
  • baby BOK CHOY
  • SWEET PEPPERS
  • assorted HOT peppers
  • baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
plenty:
  • CHERRY TOMATOES
  • HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
  • 2nds TOMATOES – scratch and dent – use or frigerate immediately
  • PUMPKIN whole and slices
  • Chinese CABBAGE – purple and green
  • tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
Herbs for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Lemongrass
  • small leaf OREGANO
  • Scallions

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)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
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 Wednesday Pickups March 13th! 4:30pm – 6ish (or walk-ins no reservation shopping 5:45-6:15pm)

Gorgeous veggies at the peak of our season! Butternut squash is SO versatile! Our beans are SO EURO! Ginger is an effective treatment for migraines! Stock up on health at ARTfarm!

Still a tomato story, but squashes and other plenty and variety available! This is high farming season and weather, and we have so many treats for you! LONGANS are going off!

Come early for first dibs on an ever changing array of always organically grown extra fruit and veggie seasonal items: fruits, greens, various tomatoes, herbs and specialty ingredients, squashes, peppers, onions, ginger and turmeric, radishes and turnips with edible leafy tops, assorted fresh herbs and other stuff. Exhaustive and more accurate list below.

Beautiful sweet and hot peppers! Anti-inflammatory and KEEPING IT HOT!

Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of dozens of pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP in the last half hour and we’ll fit you in for extras – PLUS there will be another signup in a couple of days. Detailed instructions, and questions answered HERE if you’re new. Welcome!

ARTfarm NEEDS:

• an experienced Linoleum Flooring Installer

• ON-FARM VOLUNTEERS. Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). As brief as two hours at a time. Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Help out with the livestock! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants! Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!

Farmshare choices for Wednesday, March 13th, 2024:

Gorgeous ARTfarm heirlooms full of sweet rainwater and sunshiny richness.

We will have 49 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup. 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!

Please note: Produce (including tomatoes) labeled “seconds” should be used/refrigerated immediately. Cucumbers are a mix of asian, middle eastern and hardy slicing types.

LARGE healthflex farmshare, $46, will include:
  • 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
  • 1 bag of baby ARUgula
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
  • 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM spicegirl farmshare, $32, will include:
  • 1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
  • 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
SMALL sweetermater farmshare, $17, will include:
  • 1 bag SWEET salad mix
  • 1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
TOMATO farmshare, $10, will include:
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
‘ROMAINe’TIC farmshare, $10, will include:
  • 2 LARGE heads of crispy ROMAINE lettuce
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
  • ZUCCHINI
  • CUCUMBERS
  • BUTTERNUT squash
  • ONIONS with green onion tops!
  • white (sweet-spicy) RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
  • baby BOK CHOY
  • SWEET PEPPERS
  • assorted HOT peppers
  • baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
plenty:
  • LONGAN fruit (related to genip, lychee, rambutan – soooo sweet)
  • euro GREEN BEANS medley – no passport required
  • CHERRY TOMATOES
  • HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
  • 2nds TOMATOES – scratch and dent – use or frigerate immediately
  • PUMPKIN whole and slices
  • Chinese CABBAGE – purple and green
  • tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
Herbs for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Lemongrass
  • small leaf OREGANO
  • Scallions

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)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
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!

another TOMATO FARMSTAND pop-up Monday 3/11/2024, 5:30–6PM – no reservations needed! Longan fruit!!

Gorgeous heirloom tomatoes are a feast for the eyes and an antioxidant bomb for all the rest of ya! Rich in folates, potassium, Vitamins B, C and E, and carotenoids including lycopene. They’re here and then gone so enjoy while the season lasts!

Open today again for farmstand shopping, no reservations required, from 5:30 PM to 6PM today. Come out and see farmer Luca, and get yourself some of these juicy seasonal tomato beauties! And some longan for dessert!

Cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, sweet red slicer tomatoes, and discounted seconds* tomatoes. Also longan (dragon eye fruit, similar to lychee fruit with a leathery shell, eat like genip, the candy of the fruit world). Longan season will be a few weeks.

Longans at ARTfarm, 2023. These addictive little fruits pack a sweet crunchy punch inside a leathery outer skin.

Come down the South Shore, check it out!


*Seconds tomatoes are ‘scratch and dent’ – they may have blemishes or healed splits – perfectly tasty but must go into the pot, be processed into a recipe, or stored in the refrigerator as soon as possible after purchase. Great for soup, salsa, or just blend them up and freeze portioned tomato puree for off-season pizza sauce!

ARTfarm Saturday Pickups March 9th! 10:30am – 12:30 (or open hour walk-ins 12-1pm)

Heirlooms heirlooms heirlooms! These tomato varieties’ seeds are carefully saved and handed down for generations, for their tender skins, delicate flavors and extreme sweet juiciness! Each one is a work of art that Chiluly can’t top!

TASTY BUSINESS. How could anything this sweet and delicious and gorgeous be THIS good for your body!!?! TOMATOES galore – reserve an earlier shopping time or just come 12-1pm!

We’ve got WATERMELON for early birds, baby spicy salad mix, heirloom, slicer and cherry tomatoes, whole winter squashes, peppers, onions with juicy green tops, chinese cabbage, bok choy, ginger and turmeric, radishes and turnips with edible leafy tops, assorted fresh herbs (but sadly, still no Italian or lemon basil yet – but Thai basil available). So EXPERIMENT with new flavors, people!!

Did we mention? Winter hard squashes, or pumpkin as chefs like to call it, is amazingly versatile. And uncut, it can sit in your kitchen for weeks as a still life inspiration, until you decide what culinary delight you’ll create with it!

Join our scheduled shop-n-pickup (we’re calming the crowds with pickup times: Click to sign up below for one of 62 pickup timeslots, which will reserve your basic order and give you early dibs on the extra items we have with short wait times!) If you missed this signup, feel free to JUST SHOW UP in the last half hour and we’ll fit you in for extras – PLUS there will be another signup in a couple of days. Detailed instructions, and questions answered HERE if you’re new. Welcome!

ARTfarm NEEDS:

• an experienced Linoleum Flooring Installer. Please send us someone!

• ON-FARM VOLUNTEERS. Brisk farm workouts or zen seated handwork in peaceful breezy nature for volunteers (non smoke/vapers). As brief as two hours at a time. Weed, schlepp, spin salad, split seedlings meditatively at a shady table, hoe and rake yourself a sweaty six-pack! Or deliver our produce to local restaurants! Fun rides in the farm carts! Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills, uptake and efficiency. Read HERE about the experience of volunteering at ARTfarm!

Farmshare choices for Saturday, March 9th, 2024:

baby arugula greens
Our baby and teen arugula is triple washed and ready to enjoy – it’s versatile – great mixed in to a salad, as a bed and garnish on a plate, as a snack straight out of the bag, or even gently steamed as a side green.

We will have 62 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup. 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!

Please note: Produce (including tomatoes) labeled “seconds” should be used/refrigerated immediately. Cucumbers are a mix of asian, middle eastern and hardy slicing types.

LARGE cukearugumato farmshare, $44, will include:
  • 1 bag of SWEET salad mix
  • 1 bag of teen ARUgula
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
  • 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
MEDIUM babyspicymato farmshare, $32, will include:
  • 1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
  • 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
SMALL sweetermater farmshare, $17, will include:
  • 1 bag SWEET salad mix
  • 1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
  • 1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
MINI crunchygreen farmshare, $14, will include:
  • 1 bag SWEET-n-SPICY blend salad mix
  • 1 lb. CUCUMBERS
TOMATO farmshare, $10, will include:
  • 2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
  • RED and YELLOW WATERMELON
  • baby SPICY salad mix
  • SWEET salad mix
  • ZUCCHINI
  • CUCUMBERS
  • BUTTERNUT squash
  • ONIONS with green onion tops!
  • white (sweet-spicy) RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
  • baby BOK CHOY
  • SWEET PEPPERS
  • assorted HOT peppers
  • baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
plenty:
  • CHERRY TOMATOES
  • HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
  • 2nds TOMATOES – scratch and dent – use or refrigerate immediately
  • Chinese CABBAGE – purple and green
  • tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
Herbs for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Kaffir lime leaves
  • Lemongrass
  • small leaf OREGANO
  • Scallions

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)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
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!