Lettuce Heads!!! Come out all you lettuce heads and get your lettuce heads!
We caught the rain in our crispy sweet lettuce heads! Also in our sweet and spicy salad mixes, arugula and tender teen arugula, baby spicy mix, microgreens, cooking greens, lemon, thai, italian and holy basils, garlic chives, limes, sweet papayas and our native trees and other potted plants for sale!
ARTfarm is open with the fresh stuff Saturdays 10am-12noon, and Wednesdays 3pm-5:30pm. Come out and see us!!
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!
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.
Things are pretty wet around here. Just when we think it is going to finally stop raining, it starts again. We had to cancel a school’s field trip visit to us today because it was just too muddy.
Hoping that the greens can tough it out and the abundant frogs locate the abundant caterpillars. We’ll be open for Saturday’s farmstand at 10am but it will be interesting to see what we can harvest! Hopefully it will dry out in the next few days.
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 