ARTfarm produce we sell at our farmstand
Five kinds of bagged salad mixes today: Spicy, sweet, baby spicy, arugula and microgreens! Veggies: Beets, cucumbers, onions, pumpkin, sweet peppers, cooking greens, and heirloom, slicer, and cherry tomatoes. Herbs and seasoning: hot peppers, garlic chives, parsley, Italian basil, lemon basil, dill, Korean mint, sage. Sweets: homemade chocolates, and coconut-based non-dairy ice cream in fruity flavors like mango, locust-passionfruit, soursop and banana!
See you this morning, 10am – 12 noon!
Local pumpkin today!! Our pumpkins grow to approximately 30 lb, with a dark green skin; inside you’ll find sweet orange flesh that is versatile in stews, purées, stuffing, pies, curries, soups, custard, or simply roasted. You can even slice it super thin raw and use it like a potato chip in hummus. Our personal favorite is a pumpkin-coconut soup, with a dash of ginger. Add a dollop of beet purée into the cheery orange soup for a swirl of amazing color!
Also Saturday morning: baby beets, microgreens, spicy mix, lemon basil, holy basil, Italian basil, parsley, bodhi beans, cucumbers, cooking greens, garlic chives, lemongrass, dill, sage, thyme, onions, lots of big tomatoes, heirlooms, cherry tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, hot peppers, papayas, chocolates, and a full spectrum of zinnia flowers fresh cut for you!
Today we’ve got the usual INSANE rainbow assortment of gorgeous, sweet, vine-ripened tomatoes from the gargantuan ‘puppy-sized’ heirloom down to the diminuitive cherry; sunflowers and zinnias for sale, along with cucumbers, sweet peppers, hot peppers, spicy salad mix, pumpkin, purple long beans, cooking greens, and lots of fresh herbs for salads, cooking and bush tea; and probably a few other things I forgot to mention. Broccoli, arugula and sweet mix, and papayas, will be available in short supply today.
For today’s farmstand at 3pm we have boatloads of tomatoes in holiday colors, a pineapple or two for a lucky early bird, and fresh greens to go with them! Herbs, salad mixes, cucumbers, flowers, all our amazing fresh stuff…
In 2012 we are going to move away from the use of plastic grocery bags at our farmstand. For years we have had a revolving system where customers bring in their clean grocery bags and share them with each other for their shopping. We figure if our customers have a snazzy and convenient, strong and roomy reusable, washable shopping bag to use here at ARTfarm AND at the grocery store, none of us will feel justified in picking up all those bags at the grocery store, and we can end the plastic grocery bags’ carbon footprint and inevitable journey to the landfill.
To make it easy to switch, we have some stylish reusable shopping bags for sale at the farmstand today, with a great ARTfarm design on it — for less than the cost of a tee shirt. They stuff down tiny to fit in your bag, and are lightweight with a little snap so you can even keep it on your keychain. Throw them in the laundry to wash. They’d make great holiday gifts and stocking stuffers – so cute!
Happy Solstice! And YES, we will be open Christmas Eve morning!!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 