Tag: pomegranates

ARTfarm miniFRUITY Saturday PopUp: 10/25/2025, 10:30-11:30am: Dragonfruit and Pomegranates!

After our usual hurricane season pause, a new round of dragonfruit is ready to enjoy, plus pomegranates and a few herbs! Come say hello to Farmer Luca and send your good vibes to this year’s tomato seedlings!

Interested in volunteering this season? Come talk with Luca about opportunities to learn and help out with things like garden preparation, raking, weeding and ongoing fence repairs from the fire. 

A new batch of dragonfruit is ripening on the ARTfarm vines. Our dragonfruit are sweet and juicy! Especially the ones with red and pink inner fruit!

In other farm news, in case you missed our September update: we are working on farm fire recovery, and a few lovely volunteers have continued to help us repair downed and destroyed fencing. We are purchasing new electric fencing, irrigation equipment and other replacement supplies with funds donated for fire disaster relief. We are deeply grateful to all of you who donated, and thanks to the VI Good Food Coalition for all their hard work organizing and fundraising.

Volunteers, now is the time! Swing by during the farmstand, or send us a message – we’re gearing up for season.

Plenty on Saturday Morning:

  • Dragonfruit (red and pink inside!)
  • Pomegranate
  • Thai basil
  • Lemongrass

First come first served!

Grateful for your support of our family farm! See you Saturday morning 10:30-11:30am!

Bright neon pink dragonfruits have soft spiky 'scales' that give them their name.
Beautiful late summer dragonfruits. These drought-tolerant pithayas are sweet and refreshing in the hot days of July, August and September! Sometimes all the way to Halloween!

ARTfarm miniFRUITY Wednesday PopUp: 9/17/2025, 5-6pm: Dragonfruit and Mangooooooooo! Plus FARM UPDATES

Another round of dragonfruit is ready to enjoy, plus west end vibes with Palmer mangoes from Mount Victory! Come out and enjoy!

Interested in volunteering this season? Come talk with Luca about opportunities to learn and help out.

Father and son goofing around in September.
Kiko isn’t working so much anymore but he still strolls around the farm a bit.

In other farm news, we are working on farm fire recovery, and we’re looking for a 20′ shipping container in good shape with no holes to store replacement materials that were lost in the massive fire in March 2025.

We are purchasing new electric fencing, irrigation equipment and other replacement supplies with funds donated for fire disaster relief. We are deeply grateful to all of you who donated, and thanks to the VI Good Food Coalition for all their hard work organizing and fundraising.

Volunteers, now is the time! Swing by during the farmstand, or send us a message – we’re gearing up for season.

Plenty

  • Dragonfruit (bright red inside! A few with white inside!)
  • Palmer mangoes (from Mount Victory Camp)

Early Birds

  • Turmeric
  • Pomegranate
  • Lemongrass

First come first served!

Grateful for your support of our family farm! See you Wednesday 5-6pm!

Cover crops are planted in next season’s vegetable rows… Sun Hemp and Swordbean! We zoomed in so you could enjoy a caterpillar’s-eye view!

ARTfarm NYE Tuesday: sweet/spicy SALAD MIXes, fruit & herbs! 12/31/24, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Tomatoes are forming and ripening!

Happy holidays all, here comes 2025! Tuesday afternoon we’ll have sweet salad mix, baby arugula and spicy mix! Also a few fruits and herbs for the early birds. New Years Eve ARTfarm PopUp 4:30 – 5:30pm

We’ve been trialing black paper mulch this year with the watermelons and tomatoes, and both are growing nicely and forming fruits. Caterpillars are starting to lessen their impact on young plants. Papayas are recovering and very productive.

Ask about volunteering on the farm, or tell a friend if you know someone who might be interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well.

No reservations; first come, first served.

Plenty

Sweet salad mix (extra tender!)
Baby spicy salad mix
Baby arugula
Radishes with green tops
Kafir limes
Italian basil

Early Birds

Lettuce heads
Cilantro
Garlic chives
Lemongrass
Pomegranates
Papaya fruit
Coconuts (for water and jelly)

Trialing black paper mulch on the ARTfarm in the 2024-2025 growing season. Seeing if it makes sense to phase out our reusable permeable woven plastic mulch we’ve used for years, for biodegradable material.
The Mongoose & Zinnia pastured chickens are thrilled with all the caterpillars and fresh grass in their moveable paddock.

See you Tuesday afternoon! 4:30 – 5:30pm.

ARTfarm Wednesday fruitynutty SALAD Pop-Up! 4/17/2024 – 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Pomegranate fruits!
Sweet, tart, juicy and healthy
Crunch the little seeds.

Wednesday pop up stand,
Sweet yellow watermelon,
Freak out your taste buds.

malabar chestnuts
Malabar chestnuts, or saba nuts, can be cooked or eaten raw. Yum!

All kinds of fruit are delicious on salads (and maybe, some malabar chestnuts too!). We have so much salad! The perfect little rain showers and cooler days have made it possible. Come on out for a one hour Wednesday afternoon pop-up farmstand from 5:30pm – 6:30pm at ARTfarm on the South Shore. Thanks again to Chef Lisa Coates for the haiku inspo.

As last week, there are farm goodies to be had as the tomato season wanes and we get into the fruitier time of year. Try a small bag of malabar chestnuts – these hazelnut sized treats are pre-hulled for you – beautiful to handle and look at, with a delicious delicate soft nut inside the stripy outer skin (you can easily crack on a solid surface and peel with your fingers). They can be enjoyed raw or roasted or cooked or made into flour… a fun snack.

Early Birds

Pomegranates
Cherry tomatoes
Small tomatoes
Malabar chestnuts
Baby bok Choy
French breakfast radishes
Eggs, pastured, from Mongoose&Zinnia
Carrots
Fennel
Dill
Parsley
Italian basil

Plenty

YELLOW WATERMELON, peeps!
Baby arugula
Sweet salad mixed with spicy
Sweet salad mix
Purple sweet potato
Orange sweet potato
Sliced pumpkin
Ginger
Turmeric
Lemongrass
Crabapples
Seriously is anyone reading this
Kafir leaves
Scallions