Tag: microgreens

Saturday 10am – 12noon Tomatofest!!

ARTfarm is awash in the juicy, sweet, flavorful fruits of the solanum lycopersicum plant! From the absolute candy-sweet explosion of a cherry tomato to the richness of the big juicy sandwich sized slicers and heirloom tomatoes to the mellow pungent complexity of a plum tomato, there are possibilities to be explored here! As with all harvests, it is a glorious but brief moment to enjoy, so get yourself over here this morning from 10 AM – 12 noon and enjoy this seasonal treat!

To go with your tomatoes: Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, teen arugula, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, microgreens, cucumbers, more tomatoes of all types, sizes and colors, purple yard long beans, kale, dandelion greens, beets, two types of radishes, sweet peppers, chili peppers, fresh ginger root, Italian basil, lemon basil, holy basil, lemongrass, dill, cilantro, mint, parsley, scallions, a few bunches of bulb onions, passionfruit and zinnia flowers.

From our partners: we have been regularly selling out of I-Sha’s vegan ice cream in unusual local fruit (and even vegetable) flavors and we have a new batch today! Miss Wanda Wright will bee here again this morning with her homemade salad dressings and meads (apeterif honey wines with fruit infusions) made from the bounty of her beehives. Also, to go with all the salsa and Bloody Marys you’ll be making, don’t forget to pick up a few kafir and key limes grown at Spring Gut Orchards.

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Monday Q&A with Farmer Luca! Open 3-6pm Today!

Q. What’s your favorite thing to do with lots and lots of cherry tomatoes?

A. Besides snacking on them like popcorn, they can be great in recipes that call for cooked tomatoes. Take a few pints of cherry tomatoes, rinse and toss them with some crushed garlic and olive oil and roast them in the oven until they begin to soften and wrinkle a little. If you like anchovies, you can also mash a few of those into your olive oil and garlic dressing to help cut the sweetness of the cherries and add a little saltiness. (Most classic tomato sauce recipes call for a little sugar, but in this case, the sweetness is already in these little teeny tomatoes.) Once they’ve roasted and started to wrinkle a bit, run them through the food processor or blender until the skins and seeds have been pulverized and you’ve achieved a creamy and smooth consistency. We use a Vitamix – and you wind up with an incredibly delicious and creamy tomato sauce/soup that even little kids and people who say they hate tomatoes will love. You can bag it up in plastic zipper bags or your container of choice and freeze, or get out your mason jars and can this delectable creation, or use it immediately topped with a few leaves of basil and maybe some fresh Parmesan in a bowl or on a pizza or pasta dish!

Monday’s stand: Buckets of cherry tomatoes. Sweet salad mix, teen spicy salad mix, teen arugula, microgreens, tons of tomatoes (all types and sizes), cucumbers, Italian basil, cilantro, garlic chives, ginger root, long beans, radishes, mint, recao and zinnia flowers. And loads of homemade coconut vegan ice cream from I-Sha in crazy local fruit flavors!

Things were oddly quiet on Saturday, so we hope we didn’t scare anyone off with our roller derby joke! Looking forward to seeing you this afternoon, 3–6pm on the balmy and blue skied South Shore!

Love, ARTfarm

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Monday 3-6, MLKJR Day

Happy birthday to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose commitment to justice made so much possible. May his memory inspire everyone’s Day of Service. Selma is still playing at Sunny Isle through Wednesday.

Today, 3-6pm: Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, microgreens, arugula, dandelion greens, cucumbers, loads of tomatoes all types, cherry tomatoes, radishes, Italian basil, holy (tulsi) basil, garlic chives, mint, dill, recao, escarole, lettuce heads, small quantities of sweet corn, zinnia flowers.

From our partners we have vegan ice cream, a perfect little afternoon treat from I-Sha. Coconut is good for you!IMG_7633.JPGBeneficial lacewings drying out from heavy dew on seeding hurricane grass. Lacewing eggs look like tiny threads with white dots suspended from them and can be found on any grass-like structure, including the laundry line.

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3-6pm Wednesday: Plenty Tomatoes, Arugula and more!

For today’s afternoon stand we have a plethora of delicious, tradewind cooled produce for you: Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, arugula, microgreens, cucumbers, loads of tomatoes all types, cherry tomatoes, Italian basil, beets, radishes, cilantro, mint, chives, dill, assorted chili peppers, kale, escarole, holy basil, lemon basil, lemongrass, lettuce heads, passionfruit, and zinnia flowers. Last chance to buy cherry tomato plants!

We have just a few of the wildly popular vegan coconut-based ice creams left including avocado and beet-ginger from I-Sha! Come and get them!IMG_7754.JPGWe are grateful to greet lots of seasonal residents who are back on St. Croix at this time of year, including our beautiful monarch butterflies.