Winter is starting to wrap it up. Soon we’ll be putting away those blankets. But the farm is continuing to pump out delicious food and as the tomato plants peak, just remember fruit season soon come! Try producing your own delicious fruits with dragonfruit cuttings available for those of you interested in starting your own dragonfruit vine. We’ll also have eggplant and zucchini again from Farmer Bob Boyan’s garden for Wednesday! Try halving them, inserting a few garlic cloves and drizzling generously with olive oil and herbs, and baking in the oven! Then eat them like a delicious vegan hoagie! You won’t be able to stop!!

Wednesday afternoon at 4:15pm we’ll start distributions for 45 pre-order customers, serving you one at a time inside our old farmstand building (our pre-COVID spot) so listen for your name to be called in the parking lot and play the ladybug game! We started this during the rainy first weekend of February, and we’re working on reducing your wait time as much as possible! For your safety and ours we are continuing to crowd control with prepacked pandemic preorders – scheduled customer pickup timeslots. Please arrive on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. We appreciate your patience! Working together!!

Three different sized available farmshare options are listed below. Click the link at the bottom to open the online form and reserve your pickup time and items. Check for your confirmation email before hitting the road… if you can’t find the email, check our help page… Please wear your mask and keep plenty of social distance at pickup!

Still not open for retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:

Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before approaching the table, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Wait to bag until we’ve totaled your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. Masks are STILL mandatory. Please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!

Farmshare choices for Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022:

We will have 45 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. 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 due to drought related shortages we are rationing one size farmshare per customer at the moment. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to make our farmstand more efficient, transaction times shorter, which minimizes community contact during the pandemic.

Extra Add-Ons (no reservations, first come first served during your pickup slot for a reserved farmshare)

• early birds:
• WATERMELON: $2.50/lb. as marked ($7-12)
  CUCUMBERS: $3.50/bag 1lb.
• extra bag of SWEET salad mix: $7
• BABY arugula or spicy mix (mesclun-ish: arugula, mustard greens, radish greens etc.): $14
• ONIONS with green edible tops: $5/bunch
• black and striped EGGPLANT: $4/lb as marked from Farmer Bob!
• ZUCCHINI/summer squash: $3/lb. 1 lb. bag from Farmer Bob!
• CARROTS and RADISHES: $3/bunch
• SECONDS tomatoes (great for cooking/salsa): $8/bag 2lb.
• SWEET PAPRIKA, green pimento cheese and cornito PEPPERS: $3/bundle
• POBLANO and ANCHO peppers, smoky sweet and mildly hot, great fresh/dried: $3/bundle
  KALE, COLLARDS, DANDELION greens: $3/bunch

• plenty:
• CHERRY tomatoes: $6/pint
• slicer and heirloom TOMATOES: $5/bag 1lb.
• HOT hot hot peppers: $2/bundle
• assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
• GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
• Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
• “Natural Mystic” self-pollinating DRAGONFRUIT CUTTINGS – 30-36″ XL vine cutting, $15 each
• PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized

Please contact us immediately by text and 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. For more tips, visit our Help page.