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.
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.
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
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!
Once again it’ll be short, but sweet. Will be open Saturday August 5th, 2023, for a POP-UP (no reservations, first-come first-serve) farmstand 11:30-12 noon.
Plenty of: Dragonfruit (both pink and red), Haitian kidney mangoes, fresh ginger and turmeric root, and pineapple slips
A few: longan fruit bunches, bunched small sweet onions with green tops, lemongrass, Italian basil, a few dozen eggs
First come first serve. Talk to Farmer Luca about volunteering! We have tasks in both sun and shade available to those who want to learn a little about organic gardening and have some reflective time getting grounded.
Because it’s a quieter time of year, we are not expecting a big crowd. Looking forward to seeing you! Thank you so much.
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!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 