ARTfarm Saturday! 10-12noon, Extra Flavor Plus Plants!

Happy Saturday! Open 10am – 12noon this morning! ARTfarm is still pumping out some fresh sweet juicy produce despite the severe drought conditions on the South Shore, so our food has extra intensity of flavor! Microgreens, arugula, sweet and spicy salad mixes, Swiss chard, broccoli leaves, kale, Chinese cabbage, beets, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, yard long purple beans, bell peppers, fennel, dill, cilantro, parsley, basil, garlic chives, thyme, rosemary, limes, ice cream, flowers, fresh juicy Mediterranean figs.

Grey harvest tubs side by side hold green cucumbers and sweet onions with the green tops on.
Freshly harvested and rinsed morning onions and cucumbers, ready for bunching and heading up to the farmstand! Happy Saturday!

We are also selling assorted organically started herbs and plants! Get a pot and grow some of your own ARTfarm varieties at home!

Farmer Luca works between several tables full of colorful young plants in cell trays.
Luca moves trays of ARTfarm seedlings. We have some varieties for sale right now! We don’t usually sell plant stock, but we are conserving water at the moment so you can take advantage and purchase some organically started plants for your own garden!

Get Fresh on Valentine’s Day!

Tell your love you want them to live a long, long time: buy them some healthy organically grown delicious fresh sweet fruits and veggies! (Love yourself, too!) Pick up some fresh farm flowers, some valentine-red tomatoes, some sweet magenta-red beets, deeply purple mustard greens, red passionfruits, and other love treats at ARTfarm this afternoon to make your Valentine’s dinner an expression of true love!

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Delicious ARTfarm beets, freshly harvested from the gardens, ready for you to turn into a red-themed dish for your loved one on Valentine’s Day (or any day you’re feeling the love)!

If you’re heading out to dinner tomorrow night, ARTfarm has you covered! You can enjoy our sweet fresh produce lovingly prepared by our favorite chefs at Savant, Salud! Bistro, Tavern 1844, Dashi, Tutto Bene, Kendrick’s, Cultured Pelican, Duggan’s Reef, and the Terrace at the Buccaneer.

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Passionfruits have a sweety-tarty flavor that adds lift and life to all kinds of recipes! Popular for juice, delicious eaten out of hand or with a spoon… one of nature’s amazing gifts! Happy Valentine’s Day!

For today’s pre-Valentine farmstand, 3-6pm, ARTfarm is offering unconditionally: Fresh cut flowers, beautiful red tomatoes, cheerful cherry tomatoes, romantic Mediterranean figs, adorable hot pink radishes, tender teen arugula, sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, beautiful fresh beets with their greens, crunchy cucumbers, purple long beans, onions, garlic chives, mustard greens, basil, sage, cilantro (frilly and flat leaf), dill, local honey, vegan ice cream!

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Hot pink, sweet and spicy little breakfast radishes make a tasty little salad for the love bunny in your life. Crunch crunch!

ARTfarm open for MLK Day! Much respect!

We dedicate our work today to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his message of peaceful change and common ground.

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We are open today… the plants never take a holiday. 3-6pm on the south shore: Microgreens, arugula, sweet mix, baby spicy mix, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, big slicer tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, yard-long purple beans, fresh bulb onions with green tops, kale, broccoli leaves, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, basil, sage, fresh-cut flowers, local honey, fresh Mediterranean figs. All grown with just rainwater and homemade soil amendments. No chemicals, no GMO’s.

Wednesday ARTfarm stand – onions and pumpkin! 3pm!

Today we are cutting into a 32lb. PUMPKIN! We have beautiful organically grown ONIONS for your soup! Also gazillions of tomatoes (slicers, heirlooms and cherries), cucumbers, arugula, sweet bell peppers, purple long beans, fennel, kale, collards, broccoli leaves, chinese cabbage, endive, escarole, dandelion greens, scallions, cayenne peppers, garlic chives, cilantro, parsley, sage, dill, Italian basil, lemon basil, Thai basil, holy basil, lemongrass. Supply on salad greens is very low this week but will recover shortly. Fresh cut zinnias and sunflowers, and charming little edible flowers for your valentine treat!

Someone posted on Facebook that they love to roll up our giant broccoli leaves and slice them thin like spaghetti before sautéing. Sounds yummy to us!

A 32 pound green rind pumpkin sits next to a bin of vine-ripened slicer tomatoes and a pile of organically grown onions with the tops still on.
A 32 pound green rind pumpkin sits next to a bin of vine-ripened slicer tomatoes and a pile of organically grown onions with the tops still on.