Tag: melons

ARTfarm Saturday Morning Farmstand! Open on South Shore, 2/14/2026, 10:30AM – 11:30AM! Happy VALENTINES! Happy AgFest!

Red juicy heirloom tomatoes in a pile, with one on top with a heart-shape. Text reads "Happy Valentine's Day from ARTfarm, St. Croix"
Don’t forget your sweetie with a romantic pile of red juicy tomatoes, sweet cheery cherry tomatoes and some of our farm-fresh cut flowers!

Treat your sweetie! Tomorrow morning’s SATURDAY ARTfarm farmstand features all the tomatoes plus teen arugula, lots of sweet and spicy salad greens mixes, carrots, pomegranates, peppers, and limes! Plus more!

As usual, we will be at the AgFest personally to celebrate and support – but not as a booth. Love up on some farmers – 9am-6pm Saturday-Monday this weekend!

We’ll see you Saturday 2/14/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Carrots with juicy green tops
  • Scallions
  • Spicy/sweet salad mix
  • Sweet salad mix
  • Pomegranates
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green (mild) and red chili peppers (hotter) and green jalapeños (mild)

Early Birds

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Teen spicy salad mix
  • Teen arugula
  • Yellow sweet peppers
  • Longans
  • Guavas
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers in limited quantities (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Thai basil
  • Italian basil
  • Dill
  • Zinnia and marigold cut stem flowers

Grow Your Own

  • Dragonfruit cuttings
Throwback!! Farmer Christina in 2015 celebrating the love! Who needs chocolate when you can have CHERRY TOMATOES!!!! A sweet thoughtful and healthy Valentine’s treat!

The extra rain means the tomato plants are putting on extra fruit. The next set of watermelons is nearly ready, and our sweet south shore papayas are getting big and will soon start to ripen. And the mango trees are starting to bloom, yay for the bees!

See you Saturday February 14th, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!

ARTfarm Saturday Morning Farmstand! 2/7/2026, 10:30AM – 11:30AM! Tomatoes & Arugula & baby SEEDLINGS!

Beautiful rain has made for a increase in our salad greens and made them extra tender!

Tomorrow morning’s SATURDAY ARTfarm farmstand features all the tomatoes plus teen arugula, lots of sweet and spicy salad greens mixes, pomegranates, peppers, and limes! Plus more!

We’ll see you today Saturday 2/7/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Teen arugula
  • Baby spicy salad mix
  • Spicy/sweet salad mix
  • Sweet salad mix
  • Pomegranates
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest) 

Early Birds

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Mini yellow watermelons
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers in limited quantities (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Thai basil
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Zinnia and marigold cut stem flowers

Grow Your Own

  • Dragonfruit cuttings
Scrumptiously sweet yellow watermelon at ARTfarm.

A lil’ shout out to the VI Good Food Coalition for all their support of farmers in the VI. Check out their website for some fundraising dinners coming up!

See you Saturday February 7th, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!

ARTfarm Saturday Morning Farmstand! 1/31/2026, 10:30AM – 11:30AM! Tomatoes & Cukes & baby SEEDLINGS!

We are cuuk-cuuu for cukes at ARTfarm and so are our customers! Winter is the time for cucumbers to be sweetest and crispiest!

Tomorrow morning’s SATURDAY ARTfarm farmstand features all the tomatoes plus baby arugula, sweet spicy mix, peppers, and limes, and sweet salad mix. Some lettuce, heads, cukes, and cooking greens and a few herbs!

We’ll see you today Saturday 1/31/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Slicer tomatoes – so abundant you can come at the very end and still get plenty
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Baby arugula
  • Sweet salad mix
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest) 

Early Birds

  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Baby spicy salad mix
  • Mini red & yellow watermelons (one per customer for now)
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Thai basil
  • Italian basil
  • Zinnia and marigold cut stem flowers

Grow Your Own

  • Dragonfruit cuttings
  • Pineapple slips (DIY)
  • Discounted tomato seedlings
  • Discounted mixed flower seedlings
Scrumptiously sweet yellow watermelon at ARTfarm.
Unpeeled ARTfarm pineapple slips are priced according to size. These slips, unpeeled, can be stored for several weeks before planting. They are quite tough and hardy.

See you Saturday January 31, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!

Wednesday 3-6pm: It’s a Gourd, It’s a Pumpkin, It’s…

img_2145…IT’S A MELON!!!!!

These crazy, sweet and beautiful looking tiger-stripy Kajari melons were meticulously collected in an eight-year epic quest by melonhead seed collectors who travelled to Punjab, India in search of heat-tolerant specimens. This one Luca trialled, part of the Year Of Experimentation, seems happily adjusted to our Crucian climate and is astoundingly sweet and delicious, honeydew-like in its color but with a softer consistency and a sweeter, stronger flavor than the typical bland green crunchy melon chunks found at the salad bar. We only have half a dozen of these little beauties this week, so be an early early bird to try it, and save the seeds!

Wednesday’s farmstand, 3-6pm down the South Shore Road, due south of Canegata Ball Park as the trushie bird flies: Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, bunched arugula, a few bunches of kale, cherry tomatoes, small slicer and heirloom tomatoes, a rainbow of bright bell peppers, Trini seasoning peppers, serrano peppers, Indian chilies, recao, Italian basil, parsley, garlic chives, mint, lemongrass, rosemary, freshly harvested ginger root, passionfruit, loads of beautiful sweet papayas, Punjabi honeydew melons, loads of zinnia cut flowers, a few sunny sunflowers! Make someone’s day – why not your own?

From our partner Fiddlewood Farm we have a fresh batch of delicate goat cheese – no labels this week but new ones soon come. Dr. Bradford was excited to share the great news that a new baby doe (girl) goat kid arrived this week! There is nothing cuter or bouncier… Congrats to the new mama! Photos soon!