Winter Rain Lettuces & Breakfast Radishes at ARTfarm today

Taste the winter rain: Romaine – like lettuce fresh picked this morning, and tender oak leaf lettuces, available by the head. Also this morning 10am – 12noon at ARTfarm: Tiny pink French breakfast radishes with the sweetest greens you ever ate, white carrots, beets, onions, microgreens, sweet salad mix, spicy mix, teen arugula, teen spicy mix, escarole, dandelion and mustard greens, Italian basil, holy (Tulsi) basil, lemon basil, Korean mint, lemon balm, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, sage, scallions, cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, sweet bell peppers, honey, zinnia flowers, edible flowers.

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ARTfarmstand 3-6pm today! Four kinds of cucumbers!

Lots of goodies today from 3pm – 6pm on South Shore Road — newly trimmed up by local road crews!! Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, tender young arugula, microgreens, 3 kinds of basil, 2 kinds of dandelion greens, 4 kinds of cucumbers, sage, lemongrass, garlic chives, escarole, radish greens and radishes. Get healthy! Eat fresh local foods!

A pile of beautiful green stripy cucumbers in a variety of textures at ARTfarm.
ARTfarm specializes in high quality and variety for our customers. We are growing four different types of cucumbers this season! Ask Luca to describe their different qualities, or simply buy one of each and do your own taste test!!

Saturday Morning ARTfarm! Come early for tomato seedlings!

A green ceramic bowl holds a generous handful of vine-ripe cherry tomatoes in yellows and oranges, sitting on a worn wooden board with blue fading paint.
First tomatoes of the 2012 season! We have one half pint of cherry tomatoes for the first lucky customer.

Saturday morning ARTfarmstand: we have microgreens, sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, arugula, escarole, dandelion greens, basil in various flavors, garlic chives, dill, sage, lemongrass, cucumbers, beets, radishes and their delicious greens, honey, huge gorgeous zinnia flowers, and limited quantities of organically started tomato seedlings for sale! (For those less ambitious, but early today, our tomato season is starting with a half pint of cherry tomatoes available this morning, for the first lucky customer!)

Get Pickled for the Holiday Weekend! ARTfarm open today, 3-6pm!

A jar of freshly pickled cucumbers sitting on a fence post gleams in the late day sun, with colorful zinnias, green garden beds and the ARTfarm seedling house and farmstand in the background.
Deb’s ARTfarm pickles! You can make your own pickles this holiday season. It’s fun and easy to do. Makes a thrifty, fun, and appreciated homemade gift!

ARTfarmstand 3-6pm today! We have five different kinds of amazing, sweet crunchy cucumbers, including Asian cukes and a thin-skinned English variety. Pickling is easy, quick and makes a gorgeous gift. This lovely jar was pickled by our super volunteer Deb Mattera, and to get the recipe you’ll have to come to the farmstand and chat her up!

Also available today: microgreens, sweet mix, spicy mix, arugula, escarole, lettuce heads, dandelion greens, radishes, four flavors of basil, zinnia flowers, garlic chives, lemongrass, sage, thyme, cilantro, dill, rosemary, honey and late season mangoes. Give thanks! It rained!!