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ARTfarm Wednesday PM: Shades of Green… 3/12/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Teen spicy mix harvested fresh at dawn, in your fridge next day! Keep the air out of the bag and these will last a long time, to eat straight, mix with other salad greens, use as a garnish or bed for an entrée, wilt in a dish for a slight pepper flavor…

Things are drying up a little bit. But for this mid-week stand, we’ll once again have an abundance of salad greens and more tomatoes and watermelon. Come see us tomorrow afternoon, and enjoy all the peak season deliciousness.

It will be first come first served Wednesday. As usual, if the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

4pm Sundays is getting established as a meetup time slot for volunteers. If you’d like to join our little group, give us a call or send a text or reach out through social media or email. If you are interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

Watermelon is one of Luca’s favorite crops.

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Teen arugula
  • Teen spicy salad mix
  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Watermelon – red AND yellow!

Early Birds

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (mixed varieties)
  • Chinese cabbage leaves – bunched
  • Butternut squashes
  • Fresh breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Green and red hot peppers
  • Baby Ginger
  • Basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Scallions
  • Lemongrass
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

Our teen spicy salad mix at ARTfarm is a combination of peppery greens. They’re bigger than baby greens but still tender and not totally mature.

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: High Season Yums… 3/5/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Fresh heirloom tomatoes are at their sweetest at the peak of the season after the rains have mostly stopped!

There’s a natural ebb and flow with the season. For this mid-week stand, we’ll have an abundance of salad greens and more tomatoes and watermelon. Come see us tomorrow afternoon.

It will be first come first served Wednesday. As usual, if the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

Sunday afternoons around 4 PM have become a hot time slot for volunteers. If you’d like to join our little group, give us a call or send a text or reach out through social media or email. If you are interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

Watermelon is one of Luca’s favorite crops.

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Baby arugula
  • Baby spicy salad mix 
  • Mini butternut squashes
  • Fresh breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (mixed varieties)
  • Watermelon – red AND yellow!
  • Chinese cabbage leaves – bunched
  • Kale
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Papaya
  • Coconuts (for coconut water)
  • Eggs
  • Green hot peppers
  • Baby Ginger
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Scallions
  • Lemongrass

We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

Baby ginger freshly harvested at ARTfarm.

ARTfarm Saturday AM: Summer Fruit & Salad Greens Harvest!! 7/13/24, 11am – 12 noon

We have started covering ARTfarm’s dragonfruit vine plants with dried palm fronds to protect them from the sun during these extra hot days. Thanks to our awesome volunteers who helped Farmer Luca with this project. Summer, climate change, 2024.

Pop-up summer ARTfarmstand on Saturday – with over a hundred pounds of DRAGONFRUIT and plenty of SWEET SALAD MIX – how is it even possible in this heat?! DUDE! Come out Saturday at elevenses and get your crunchy sweet salad groove on!

No reservations; first come, first served. We really appreciate your support.

pineapples
Bucket of pineapples…these have sweet tender cores you can eat!

Plenty

Dragonfruit: varieties include red, pink and white inside!
Pineapple
Lemongrass
Turmeric
Sweet salad mix
Longan fruit

Stay cool, drink your lemongrass tea, and see you Saturday 11am to noon!

Below is our pineapple salsa recipe and a cute photo of Farmer Luca in case you missed it last week.

ARTfarm Pineapple Salsa

1 cup chopped ripe pineapple
.5 cup chopped less ripe pineapple
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
2 jalapeños finely chopped
2-3 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons black pepper

Chop, toss, let it sit a bit, and enjoy it in unexpected dishes! It is the refreshing summer addition you’ll want to use on everything!

A good pine takes time.

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: Piña Popup 7/3/24, 5:30pm – 6pm

Four pale orange, white spotted pumpkins sit on a stainless tabletop, with pale blue early morning light on the trees and pastures in the distance.
Winter squash (pumpkins) grown at ARTfarm on St. Croix. They have a deliciously rich, dry flesh.

Pop-up farmstand on Wednesday – and celebrating Emancipation Day in the USVI!

How well do you understand the meaning of Emancipation Day in the USVI?

“General Buddhoe was born on St. Croix [in] 1820… he was 28 years old at the time of the emancipation. …When Buddhoe was about 20 years old, he got arrested. In 1840, he was charged with “theft” and received 30 lashes. Then in 1841, he was arrested again for “theft and maronloben,” which means to become a maroon. Buddhoe stole food from his master’s kitchen to help an elderly man who was unable to get food for himself. With this act of kindness, it is clear what kind of a man Buddhoe was: A natural leader who cared for his people and who was incredibly brave to emancipate his people 176 years ago.”

Olasee Davis in the St. Croix Source, discussing a new book ‘A Closer Look’, based on new Danish translations, by Kathleen D. Dowling

Hope everyone is staying cool and enjoying this holiday week, and basking in the many freedoms we currently enjoy; with the knowledge of historic times when freedoms were not secured; and rejuvenating ourselves in order to join the current movements to create parity and freedom for all people. We’re looking at some epic times ahead, so fuel up with healthy stuff.

Windy Wednesday’s PoPuP brought to you by the letter P: Pineapple and Pumpkin, jalaPeño. We’ve got some herbs too. Make your pineapple salsa for your July 4th partying and to slather on those burgers – recipe below. It’s easy – just bring a knife and cutting board, you can make it at the beach.

No reservations; first come, first served.

pineapples
Bucket of pineapples…these have sweet tender cores you can eat!

Plenty

Pineapples
Pumpkin slices
Jalapeño
Garlic Chives
Lemongrass
Oregano

Stay cool, and see you Wednesday afternoon! 5:30-6pm. Freedom!

ARTfarm Pineapple Salsa

1 cup chopped ripe pineapple
.5 cup chopped less ripe pineapple
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
2 jalapeños finely chopped
2-3 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons black pepper

Chop, toss, let it sit a bit, and enjoy! Love it on a burger. Happy July 3rd! and July 4th.

A good pine takes time.