Hey BUUUUUUDDY! Little buds are appearing on the dragonfruit vines. They’ll be fruits in about a month or so.
It is time for a seasonal shift as April approaches. The tomatoes have given their all. Tropical fruit trees and vines are flowering and setting fruit for the next act.
Seasonal eating is good for the body and mind – it provides shifts that indicate the subtle changes in our Caribbean seasons, and variety in the diet that maps to what the land can give. The sweet winter of tomatoes, plentiful greens and herbs is giving way to pumpkins, starchy roots, ginger and soon, in the next weeks and months, more tropical orchard fruits.
Crowds on the island are waning as they do every year post-spring break. At this time of year we will be shifting to infrastructure work to improve operations and increase sustainability. We have concluded reservations for this season (we’ll be switching to Wednesday afternoons open shopping first-come-first-serve). See the list below. Come enjoy the last few weeks of the sweet lycopene-laden ’maters and try some yams! ARTfarm is committed to providing organically and sustainably grown fruit and veggie seasonal items: fruits, greens, veggies, herbs, root veggies, specialty ingredients and other stuff.
ARTfarm NEEDS:
• an experienced Linoleum Flooring Installer. The World Central Kitchen project continues. We’ve knocked out the mechanical end of the 40′ container to recover an extra foot of space. Luca and the volunteer crew cut channels between the compartments to prevent thermal transfer and filled in the T-channel flooring with a combination of insulating foams to help the cold air stay in! Still need a helper with linoleum flooring experience to help us finish out the floor. Send us a contractor!
• 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!
You can cook yams similarly to potatoes. Here are some of our purple and orange sweet potatoes alongside some white yam. They are all creamy and! Give them a try in place of imported Idaho potatoes. These were peeled, sliced and steamed for 10 minutes.
ARTfarm offerings for Saturday, March 30th, 2024:
What We’ve Got Now: (open shopping, non-reservable – first come first served during open hours):
plenty:
CHERRY TOMATOES by the pint
PUMPKIN whole and slices
purple SWEET POTATOES
large white YAM
BABY BOK CHOY tender and yummy!
baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
early birds:
HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
2nds TOMATOES – scratch and dent – use or frigerate immediately
FENNEL
ONIONS with green onion tops!
tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
White yams are a healthy alternative to white potatoes but can be used in similar ways: fried, smashed, roasted, boiled, steamed, etc. They are good for your body and they are drought resistant and good for the soil of the farm! Slice, peel, steam/fry/boil/mash etc.!
Farmer Luca is so excited about YAMS right now! These delicious healthy white tubers from West Africa are healthy for you and healthy for the farm! The tomato season is starting to wane as the weather dries out, and this MIGHT be our last reservation Wednesday for this season, so come celebrate your health – enjoy the last few weeks of the sweet lycopene-laden ’maters and try some yams – reserve an earlier shopping time or just come 5:30-6pm!
Come early for first dibs on your reserved farmshare and your choice of an ever-changing seasonal array of always organically and sustainably grown extras, fruit and veggie seasonal items: fruits, greens, veggies, herbs, root veggies, specialty ingredients and other stuff. Today’s list below.
Still have tomatoes but the season is waning! Enjoy them NOW!!!
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. The World Central Kitchen project continues. We’ve knocked out the mechanical end of the 40′ container to recover an extra foot of space. Luca and the volunteer crew cut channels between the compartments to prevent thermal transfer and filled in the T-channel flooring with a combination of insulating foams to help the cold air stay in! Still need a helper with linoleum flooring experience to help us finish out the floor. Send us a contractor!
• 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 27th, 2024:
You can cook yams similarly to potatoes. Here are some of our purple and orange sweet potatoes alongside some white yam. They are all creamy and! Give them a try in place of imported Idaho potatoes. These were peeled, sliced and steamed for 10 minutes.
We will have 41 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.
LARGE rugu’matergreens farmshare, $42, will include:
1 bag of SWEET salad mix
1 bag of baby ARUgula
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
MEDIUM spicycherrymato farmshare, $34, will include:
1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
SMALL sweetermater farmshare, $19, will include:
1 bag SWEET salad mix
1 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
1 pint CHERRY tomatoes
YAMMY YAM farmshare, $10, will include:
4 lb. potato-like white YAMS (prepare like potatoes but healthier!!)
TOMATO farmshare, $10, will include:
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
BOK CHOY BABY farmshare, $10, will include:
3 heads of tender BABY BOK CHOY
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
HEIRLOOM and SLICER tomatoes
purple SWEET POTATOES
orange SWEET POTATOES
LONGAN dragon eye fruit (related to genip, lychee, rambutan – soooo sweet)
ONIONS with green onion tops!
white (sweet-spicy) RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
assorted HOT peppers
baby GINGER and baby TURMERIC
plenty:
CHERRY TOMATOES by the pint
2nds TOMATOES – scratch and dent – use or frigerate immediately
CARROTS
BABY BOK CHOY tender and yummy!
PUMPKIN whole and slices
tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
French pink breakfast RADISHES with green tops
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)
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!
Farmer Luca sorting and stacking heirloom tomatoes in the field. Our Haley farm cargo trike holds about half a pickup truck of produce per load, human powered!
HAPPY SPRING! Snowbird migration has begun! We still have loads of plenty! All the tomatoes! Reserve an earlier shopping time with our quick form linked below, or just come 11:30am – 12 noon for open shopping!
Come early and reserve an earlier timeslot 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.
We tried a new variety of tasty cherry tomato in the mix this season at ARTfarm! Gorgeous color!
Our scheduled shop-n-pickup is easy (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!
• 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! Fun rides in the farm cart! 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!
ARTfarm NEEDS:
• an experienced Linoleum Flooring Installer. The World Central Kitchen project continues. We’ve knocked out the mechanical end of the 40′ container to recover an extra foot of space. Luca and the volunteer crew cut channels between the compartments to prevent thermal transfer and filled in the T-channel flooring with a combination of insulating foams to help the cold air stay in! Subflooring is done. Dividers in. Still need a helper with linoleum flooring experience to help us finish out the floor. Send us a contractor!
We will have 41 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
BOK CHOY BABIES farmshare, $10, will include:
3 tender baby BOK CHOY heads!
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:
purple SWEET POTATOES
orange SWEET POTATOES
LONGAN dragon eye fruit (related to genip, lychee, rambutan – soooo sweet)
ONIONS with green onion tops!
white (sweet-spicy) RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
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
CARROTS for cute baby bunnies… and YOU
PUMPKIN whole and slices
tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
French pink breakfast RADISHES with green tops
DAIKON radishes! YAAASSSSS!
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)
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!
Heirloom tomatoes are typically picked vine-ripe and thus require careful picking and gentle handling at all times.
Happy Spring! Vernal Equinox yesterday! Feel the planetary shift! Cherry tomatoes, LONGAN!, sweet potatoes, and other plenty and variety available! This is high farming season and weather, and we have so many treats for you! TOMATOES galore – especially cherry tomatoes – reserve an earlier shopping time or just come 5:30-6pm!
Come early for first dibs on an ever changing array of always organically grown extra fruit and veggie seasonal items: fruits, greens, veggies, herbs and specialty ingredients and other stuff. Exhaustive and more accurate list below.
Sweet little carrots! Delicious, raw or sautéed or in cake or any way you wanna cook them! And you can juice the tops if you are bold and want that bitter green in your diet! Super healthy!
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. The World Central Kitchen project continues. We’ve knocked out the mechanical end of the 40′ container to recover an extra foot of space. Luca and the volunteer crew cut channels between the compartments to prevent thermal transfer and filled in the T-channel flooring with a combination of insulating foams to help the cold air stay in! Still need a helper with linoleum flooring experience to help us finish out the floor. Send us a contractor!
• 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 20th, 2024:
A truckload of winter squash and pumpkin harvested at ARTfarm! Regenerative soil practices are really paying off this season.
We will have 55 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 spicycherrymato farmshare, $34, will include:
1 bag of baby SPICY salad mix
2 lb. TOMATOES (slicer/heirloom mix)
2 pints CHERRY tomatoes
SMALL sweetermater farmshare, $19, 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)
BOK CHOY BABY farmshare, $10, will include:
3 heads of tender BABY BOK CHOY
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable – first come first served during your pickup slot):
early birds:
purple SWEET POTATOES
orange SWEET POTATOES
LONGAN dragon eye fruit (related to genip, lychee, rambutan – soooo sweet)
ONIONS with green onion tops!
white (sweet-spicy) RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
euro GREEN BEANS medley – no passport required
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
CARROTS
PUMPKIN whole and slices
tender baby salad TURNIPS with green tops, $3/bunch
French pink breakfast RADISHES with green tops
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)
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 on St. Croix, USVI 