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ARTfarm Wednesday Afternoon Farmstand! 2/11/2026, 4:30 – 5:30PM! Seconds tomatoes! Happy eggs!

Los Segundos. These later season, slightly blemished seconds tomatoes may not have the looks of a perfect tomato, but the flavor is even richer! Use them chopped, sliced or in soups and fresh salsas; can them, roast them, blend them in sauces… still delicious!

Hope everyone has been staying warm in the big chill. We’ve had some 72ºF days here. Lots of rain has caused a lot of tomatoes to split or crack. So there will be some bags of seconds tomatoes available tomorrow!

Tomorrow afternoon’s Wednesday ARTfarm stand features carrots, scallions, Mongoose & Zinnia eggs from happy winter hens, as well as slicer, heirloom and cherry tomatoes, watermelon for early bird customers, veggies and a diverse selection of sweet and/or spicy salad greens!

We’ll see you Wednesday 2/11/26 from 4:30 to 5:30PM! First come, first served. We should be on the regular for the rest of this month with Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Plenty

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Carrots with green tops (juice-able)
  • Scallions
  • Sweet salad mix
  • Spicy/Sweet salad mix
  • Teen arugula
  • Teen spicy salad mix
  • Pomegranates
  • Kaffir limes and leaves
  • Green mild and red HOT chili peppers (bass slap) and green jalapeños (mild)

Early Birds

  • Yellow mini watermelons
  • Longan fruit are starting…
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Eggs
  • Zucchini & yellow summer squash
  • Cucumbers (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Thai basil
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Marigold and zinnia cut stem flowers

Grow Your Own

We started growing dragonfruit back in 2013 or so. Here’s a throwback photo showing the old ARTbarn gallery. Cuttings are available – you can grow your own!
Longan fruits, shown whole and broken open to expose the flesh
Longans at ARTfarm. These addictive little fruits pack a sweet crunchy juicy punch inside a leathery outer skin.

See you Wednesday February 11th, 2026, starting at 4:30PM!

ARTfarm Wednesday Afternoon Farmstand! 2/4/2026, 4:30 – 5:30PM! All the TOMATOES!

Honking juicy heirloom and slicer tomatoes! Get yer vitamins in the most appealing package possible!

Gosh, that was a lot of rain! This will improve many crops and green up our pastures. We would welcome even more of it, but just not during Wednesday afternoon’s farm stand!

Tomorrow afternoon’s Wednesday ARTfarm stand features plenty of slicer, heirloom and cherry tomatoes, watermelon for early bird customers, veggies and salad greens!

We could use some volunteers for general farm work and some carpentry.

We’ll see you Wednesday 2/4/26 from 4:30 to 5:30PM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Lettuce heads
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Teen arugula
  • Teen spicy salad mix
  • Italian basil
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest)

Early Birds

  • Yellow and red watermelon (cut and whole)
  • Pomegranates
  • Sweet salad mix (rain reduced harvest)
  • Bunched arugula
  • Zucchini & yellow summer squash
  • Cucumbers (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Thai basil
  • Italian basil
  • Marigold and zinnia cut stem flowers

Grow Your Own

  • Tomato seedlings
  • Dragonfruit cuttings
  • Discounted mixed flower seedlings
Kafir lime leaves give an excellent citrus aroma; used like a bay leaf in cooking!
Garden of Small Lives. Sumi ink and gouache on paper, 6” x 6” ©2021 Marina Gasperi.

See you Wednesday February 4, 2026, starting at 4:30PM!

ARTfarm Open today 5/14/2025 Wednesday 5 to 6 PM, plenty of all the good things

Hey folks, despite the wetness and rain Farmer Luca will be open 5 to 6 this afternoon with lots of goodies, veggies and watermelon. Enjoy!

Red radishes with green tops
Ravishing Radishes – They grow faster than the bugs can keep up with! The crunchy bottoms can be eaten raw (peppery) or used as a root vegetable cooked (mild). The tops are more nutritious than the root, and can be used as salad or cooking greens. Some folks make smoothies with them! Don’t waste an inch of this mighty veggie! We love them sliced thin in oil and vinegar with a pinch of salt.

Plenty

  • Sweet mix
  • Cucumbers
  • French breakfast radishes
  • Long pink radishes with nice tops

Early birds

  • Watermelon
  • Papaya
  • Bunched arugula
  • Hot green and red peppers
  • Sweet frying peppers
  • Carrots with green tops
  • Scallions
  • Kale
  • Baby turmeric
  • Basil
  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Parsley
  • Dill
  • Kaffir leaves

First come first serve.

ARTfarm Mango & Greens Pop-up 9/24/22 Saturday 11:30am!

Nam doc Mai mangoes from Tropical Exotics orchard on St. Croix are fiberless, buttery smooth and sweet.

Water water everywhere! Thanks to Tropical Storm Fiona and other weather events passing through the area, we have been blessed with over six inches of rain and the catchment ponds are finally refilling!

Saturday 9/24/22 Pop-up at the ARTfarm 11:30am — 12 noon: Sweet salad mix and Thai mangoes! Lots of Nam Doc Mai mangoes from Alex at Tropical Exotics orchard — wisely picked right before TS Fiona so fruits wouldn’t get bruised from falling — ready/ripe in the next three days, priced as marked.

We’ll also have sweet salad mix, sweet onions with delicious green tops. Early birds will also choose from sweet potatoes, garlic chives, lemongrass, mango/white turmeric, kafir leaves, and zinnia flowers. Also, pineapple slips for down-the-road DIY piña coladas.

Tropical Storm Fiona dropped over 6 inches of rain on the ARTfarm over several days. Our largest lined pond is approaching capacity.
If the soil has some moisture in it from previous rains, it takes a minimum of 4 inches of rain over less than a week, to get the guts running to fill the unlined dam (pond) on the east end of the ARTfarm pastures. Tropical Storm Fiona was able to fill it 3/4 full! This will help to recharge the water tables on the South Shore.

First come first serve. No reservation required!

Farmer Luca and family wants to take a moment to encourage everyone to support local farmers. If you can’t make it to our farmstand, Sejah Farm is a wonderful farm/market that sells their own produce plus lots of produce from all over St. Croix. They have a wide selection and are open more hours and days than we are.

There is also the Saturday farmers market at the Department of Agriculture grounds where you can buy directly from farmers.

Remember the best way to support agriculture in the US Virgin Islands is to buy produce directly from farmers.

Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!