Tag: Luca Gasperi

Increasing Levels of Coco-nuttiness at ARTfarm!

We’re open today from 10am to 12 noon, selling microgreens baby spicy, arugula, water spinach, chives, lemongrass, basil, limes, mangoes, avocados in all stages of ripeness, and precut COCONUTS! Also Feel I’s icecream and Sweetface chocolates!

Coconuts available chilled. Luca will chop them open for you if you’re out of practice with your machete.

We have beautiful, hardy, drought tolerant native trees for your home or workplace beautification, including flowering varieties. Please ask!

Coco-nuttiness this afternoon at ARTfarm!

We’re open today from 4:30pm to 5:30pm, selling microgreens, mangoes, avocadoes, malay apples, and precut COCONUTS! Available chilled. Luca will chop them open for you if you’re out of practice with your machete. Also Feel I’s icecream and Sweetface chocolates! Come out, the storm’s passed!

Holy Guacamole – ARTfarmstand this morning!

Whoa! Farmer Luca looks on in amazement at the giant Russell avocados!
Whoa! Farmer Luca looks on in amazement at the giant Russell avocados!

If you love giant avocados, you’ll enjoy today’s farmstand.

We also have baby spicy salad mix, microgreens, arugula, asian water spinach, garlic chives, basil, thai basil, lemongrass, and two out of season renegade cucumbers who just cropped up on their own this summer. In the fruit department we have for you today: local bananas, malay apple (aka wax jambu, Caribbean apple, pomerac), mesple (aka brown sugar fruit), mangoes and strawberry guava!

If you’ve been very very good, we have freshly made Sweetface chocolates, and Feel I’s icecreams in local fruit flavors.

And we have beautiful native trees for sale.

We love you. Come see us on this fine glittery Saturday morning, 10am to noon!

Laying Pipe

In the off season, when the tomatoes are NOT bursting off the vines, you’d think we would take it easy, go to the beach, or do some cool new paintings.

Not so, friends.

Luca operating a trencher on a skid steer in the pastures at ARTfarm
Luca operating a trencher on a skid steer in the pastures at ARTfarm. We're laying poly pipe for livestock irrigation! Photo by Mitch Amarando.

The off season is when we catch up on infrastructure projects. Luca has been cutting trenches with a skid steer using a hydraulic trenching attachment in our pastures, to bury water lines for our upcoming livestock project. We’ll be experimenting with multi-species grazing and micropasturing. We’re burying the polyethelene pipe so that it will be protected from UV damage, heavy equipment, fire, and chewing animals. It should last just about forever.