ARTfarm Open 5/21/2025 Wednesday 5 to 6 PM, summer is coming!

Farmer Luca will be open 5 to 6 pm Wednesday at the farm with lots of goodies, especially for the early birds… Sweet mix for everybody, veggies and fruit. Enjoy!

Trays of dozens of red and green lettuce seedlings in various states of growth await transplanting at ARTfarm.
ARTfarm sweet lettuce mix contains six to eight varieties of green and red leaf lettuces. Biodiversity helps prevent crop failure and gives us different micronutrients for good health! Mix it up!

Plenty

  • Sweet mix
  • Bunched arugula
  • Long pink radishes with nice tops

Early birds

  • Cucumbers
  • Mangoes
  • Watermelon
  • Pomegranate
  • Beets with green tops
  • Hot green and red peppers
  • Sweet frying peppers
  • Scallions
  • Kale
  • Turmeric
  • Ginger
  • Basil
  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Parsley
  • Dill
  • Kaffir leaves

First come first serve.

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: Not Quite Mango Time… 3/19/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Mango trees are full of blooms as the weather turns from cooler winter to hot, dry springtime at ARTfarm.

…Mangoes are not ready yet but they are flowering!! Specifically, Viequen Butterball, Carrie, Jakarta, and Graham mangoes will be ripe in June/July, and we have longan fruit and pomegranate trees flowering now. As the days get hotter, come see us tomorrow afternoon, and enjoy all the peak season deliciousness.

We are looking for good quality, low cost clean mulch as it gets drier in the spring.

It will be first come first served Wednesday. No reservations. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

Ridiculously sweet yellow watermelons are beautiful and tasty! Come and get them while the harvest lasts! Also available in classic ‘watermelon’ red!

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Slicer tomatoes

Early Birds

  • Teen arugula
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Watermelon – red AND yellow!
  • Chinese cabbage leaves – bunched
  • Butternut squashes
  • Baby ginger
  • Fresh breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Green and red hot peppers
  • Basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Scallions
  • Lemongrass
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)
  • A few pomegranates

We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

Our teen spicy salad mix at ARTfarm is a combination of peppery greens. They’re bigger than baby greens but still tender and not totally mature.

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, and also these round red things… 2/26/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Cilantro in the gardens goes to flower and turns into coriander seed, eventually. Dill also puts up similar “fireworks” shaped flower clusters and has a strong fennel scent. We like to use them in flower arrangements!

Tomatoes and salad! Tomato seconds available for the early birds, so rock your sassy secret salsas, sauces and soups!

Once again, enjoy the bounty of this winter season. Conditions are starting to dry up on the South Shore, which will make the flavors more pungent, but also means it may be a shorter season. So don’t miss out! Come see us tomorrow afternoon.

Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are pretty regular. It will be first come first served Wednesday. As usual, if the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

Sunday afternoons around 4 PM have become a hot time slot for volunteers. If you’d like to join our little group, give us a call or send a text or reach out through social media or email. If you are interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

A closeup of pico di gallo, a fresh raw tomato and herb dish
This is the time of year for pico di gallo and other fresh treats using all the tomatoes!

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Baby arugula
  • Baby spicy salad mix 
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (Japanese  and American slicer)
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Green hot peppers
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Cooking greens
  • Tomato seconds, not pretty but delicious!
  • Baby Ginger
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Small leaf oregano
  • Zinnia flowers
  • Lemongrass
  • A handful of mangoes  for a handful of early birds

We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

The cherry tomatoes are seriously here for 2025!

Free Longan tastes! Monday pop up, ARTfarm today, 5 – 5:30 PM

Short, but sweet! Monday 9/18/2023 pop up at the ARTfarm…

The last of our super sweet longan will be available for sale and free tastes are available.

Juicy “dragon eye” longan fruits, related to rambutan and lychee, have a leathery outer skin that pops off to reveal a juicy sweet pulp over a hard, non edible black glossy seed that will sprout a new tree! These are very sweet fruits high in Vitamin C!

September plum will also be available!

Young fiddle wood native trees are available!

Hopefully some late season big Keitt mangoes will be available from Dennis Nash!!

5 – 5:30pm!!! Come and pick up some of nature’s vitamins!

xo, ARTfarm