Tag: produce

ARTfarm produce we sell at our farmstand

Saturday ARTfarm produce – open 10am – 12noon

Saturday morning’s farmstand will include microgreens, pineapples, yummy garlic chives, cooling thai basil and lemongrass. We’ll have local honey, honey vinegar, luscious buttery mangoes, chocolates from Sweetface and Feel I’s coconut-based local fruit ice creams, including our family’s favorite flavor, hot pink Beet Ginger.

A Buff and a Toulouse goose wander in one of ARTfarm's fallow summer gardens, munching on basil and hot peppers.
A Buff and a Toulouse goose wander in one of ARTfarm's fallow summer gardens, munching on basil and hot peppers.

The recent rains have sent the farm into summer hibernation a few weeks early, and Farmer Luca and new employee Tucker are busy pulling out old plants and mulching down the gardens for a well deserved rest between growing seasons. The geese have been given free rein in the back garden and are happily eating weeds, grass, basil and pounds and pounds of hot peppers.

ARTfarm Farmstand open today! Shortened Wednesday hours, 4:30-5:30pm.

We are starting new shorter hours on Wednesday afternoons, as the summer approaches and we have a limited supply of greens on hand. Today’s farmstand features microgreens, mangoes, garlic chives, basil, kangkong (spinach), chocolates and honey!

Why no salad mix? The rain over the last month has destroyed the last few lettuce beds and the last of our tomato plants, so the sweet and spicy mixes we make with larger lettuces, and the tomatoes, will be but a fond memory until a few months from now. ‘Tis the season for mangoes, treating yourself to our tender baby and micro greens, and discovering the joys of hummus made with a delicious bunch of garlic chives blended in. Cool, refreshing summer treats! Feel I’s delicious ice cream will soon also return to the stand, we’ve been promised Beet Ginger for Saturday!

ARTfarm Farmstand’s OPEN today… with Farmer Luca!

Today’s stand is open from 3pm to 5:30pm. Pineapples, mangoes, sweet mix, spicy mix, micro greens, cooking greens, scallions, cherry and slicer tomatoes, herbs including lemongrass, lemon and italian basils… ice cream and chocolate.

Come out today with your gardening questions, Farmer Luca will be running the stand!

Come Rain or Come Shine – We’re OPEN!! 10am – 12 noon!

Phooey to the rain. The farmstand is OPEN today, Saturday May 21st! See you between 10am and noon! We have gorgeous baby and micro greens, baby arugula, sweet and spicy salad mixes, cooking greens galore including kale, broccoli rabe, baby collards; fresh herbs including dill, basil (lemon, thai and italian), parsley, garlic chives, lemongrass; honey and honey vinegar; two types of hot peppers, cucumbers, pumpkin, cherry tomatoes, scallions; mangoes, pineapple and local short fat “Blue Java Ice Cream” bananas. Speaking of ice cream, of course we have Feel I’s coconut based non-dairy local fruit ice creams and four flavors of Sweetface chocolates.

Last night’s steady rain that continues this morning brings us to thirteen inches since Friday May 13th. Water is running all over the farm, our lined catchment and runoff ponds are completely full, our native trees have gone without a hand watering for a week, the weeds are tremendous, and our galoshes and umbrellas are in heavy rotation. We managed to mow and weedwack a path of sanity in our customer parking and farmstand areas, so fear not the undergrowth. Yesterday afternoon despite a persistent drizzle, our bees were busy flying in and out of the hive.

Do exercise caution and go slow while driving in flash flood conditions! VITEMA reported road closings last night at Five Corners heading up to Little Princess Hill, and at Peters Rest Road near Junie’s Bar, so find alternate routes. We can umbrella you to and from your car once you get here, if you’ve forgotten yours, so please give us a call from the parking lot! (340)514-4873.