ARTfarm Wednesday afternoon stand: Sweet salad mix, teen arugula, spicy salad mix, microgreens, escarole, kale, cucumbers, beets, radishes, scallions, Italian basil, cilantro, parsley, dill, garlic chives, lemongrass, passionfruit, long beans, zinnia flowers, and loads of tomatoes: cherry tomatoes and all types of larger tomatoes! From our partner I-Sha, vegan ice cream in a multitude of local fruit flavors – we are starting to run a little low on spoons, so if you’ve borrowed one or two of ours, please bring us back one or two!
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
Late Nite Tomatoes with Farmer Luca, 3-6pm Today!
It’s been broughten! ARTfarm has finally got buckets of CHERRY tomatoes available. Even if you 9 to 5 workers come between 5:30 and 6 PM, we will still have cherry tomatoes and sweet mix for you today! That is a promise from Farmer Luca!
Monday harvest, available this afternoon: Sweet salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, loads of all tomatoes: slicers, heirlooms, plums, cherries. Cucumbers, radishes, cilantro, dill, Italian basil, garlic chives, mint, lettuce heads, and zinnia flowers. From I-Sha, our partner, homemade vegan creamy coconut-based ice cream in amazing local fruit flavors! Bring your cooler!
Subtlety: see if you can spot Farmer Jen and a rainbow in this evening shot on the farm…
Sign Up For Salad & Tomatoes! ARTfarm Sat., 10am – 12noon!
Please admire our improved signs on your way in this morning! 
Lettuce tell you about today’s harvest: sweet salad mix, teen spicy salad mix, baby arugula, and microgreens. Over in the tomato department we’ve got lovely heirlooms, paste tomatoes, slicers, and a few types of cherries! The veggie aisle at ARTfarm has crispy cucumbers, poetic beets, crunchy radishes, early bird sweet corn for the first few customers, lettuce heads, escarole, sweet peppers, assorted chili peppers, kale; the herb garden offers Italian basil, holy basil, lemon basil, dill, cilantro, parsley, garlic chives, recao, mint, lemongrass, and tender young ginger root. In fruit and home decor we’ve got gorgeous bright zinnia flowers and tangy passionfruit.
In the frozen section you’ll find I-Sha’s homemade vegan all-local coconut based, miraculously creamy non-dairy ICE CREAM in far-out local flavors from avocado to beet-ginger to locust bean to soursop. Always fun to see what Feel-I has come up with next!
We had a great visit from a former ARTfarm employee over the holidays and she managed to put in a few hours helping us out! We named a key garden after Maria years ago so it’s kind of like she never left! 
Happy New Year! Thanks for shopping local and supporting family farms.
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 