Tag: salad

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: pep in your step with PEPPERS and tomatoes and salad mix… 2/19/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Jalapeño peppers, just about ready!

Tomatoes and salad! Enjoy the bounty of this winter season.

Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are starting to be more regular. Still holding off on the timeslot reservations at this point. It will be first come first served Wednesday. If the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

As we keep saying in these cooler months, it’s a great time to ask about volunteering on the farm, or tell a friend if you know someone who might be 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 really appreciate your support.

Be a sustainability hero! Volunteer at the ARTfarm and help us sequester carbon and improve the diets of all!

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix (tender, and sweet from the rain)
  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (Japanese)
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Teen arugula
  • Teen spicy salad mix
  • Cooking greens
  • French breakfast radishes with edible green tops
  • Green bell (sweet) peppers
  • Green hot peppers
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Small leaf oregano
  • Lemongrass
  • A handful of Haitian kidney mangoes
  • A few pomegranates!

Happy Tomato Season! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: SALAD options, heirloom TOMATOES, CAIMITO star apple fruits… 2/12/2025, 5 – 6 PM

The Caimito (star apple) fruit tastes like a sweet and juicy cross between a cantaloupe and lychee. They become slightly soft when ripe with a sweet smell. It can be eaten out of the skin, added to salad, made into ice cream or jam, or added to smoothies. Lurking in the background are two kaffir limes. These are delicious and they have plenty of rind if you need fragrant citrus peel.

Have you tried a star apple? Not a star fruit (carambola) or a malay apple (wax jambu) but a star apple (caimito)! It’s in the sapote family, and we have some sweet ones. The sweet juicy flavor has been described “…as if a cantalope and a lychee had a fruit baby!” They are often purple, but we have the green ones and they are ripe and ready!

Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are starting to be more regular. Still holding off on the timeslot reservations at this point. It will be first come first served Wednesday. If the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

As we keep saying in these cooler months, it’s a great time to ask about volunteering on the farm, or tell a friend if you know someone who might be 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 really appreciate your support.

The lettuce nursery at ARTfarm…

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix (tender, and sweet from the rain)
  • Teen arugula
  • Baby spicy
  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (Japanese)
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Baby bok Choy
  • Bunched arugula
  • French breakfast radishes with edible green tops
  • Large pink radishes with edible green tops
  • White turnips with edible green tops
  • Carrots with juiceable tops
  • Baby ginger
  • Green hot peppers
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Small leaf oregano
  • Lemongrass
  • A handful of Haitian kidney mangoes
  • Caimito fruit! from a neighbor up the road…

Big love to all! See you Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

ARTfarm Thursday SALAD Pop-Up! 4/25/2024 – 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Many rainy days!
Petrichor’s a memory.
Tiny green things grow.

Thursday pop up stand,
Thursday instead of Wednesday?
Change is a constant.

A harvesting tray is full of dark green zucchinis and bright yellow round summer squashes.
Five inches of rain is great for the pastures, trees and water table, but it can throw off our schedule for harvesting salad greens!

Still raining this week. April showers should be bringing some extra crops in the next few weeks. Come on out for a one hour Thursday (instead of Wednesday) afternoon pop-up farmstand from 5:30pm – 6:30pm at ARTfarm on the South Shore.

We look forward to seeing you! Thanks for all your rain dancing.

Early Birds

Cherry tomatoes
Small tomatoes
Zucchini
Onions
Baby bok Choy
Purple sweet potatoes
Parsley
Dill
Hot peppers

Eggs from Mongoose&Zinnia

Plenty

Sweet salad mix
Baby arugula
Baby spicy salad mix
Sweet and spicy salad mix
Sweet potato cooking greens
Carrots
Scallions
Italian basil
Lemon grass
Ginger
Turmeric
Sliced pumpkin

ARTfarm Wednesday fruitynutty SALAD Pop-Up! 4/17/2024 – 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Pomegranate fruits!
Sweet, tart, juicy and healthy
Crunch the little seeds.

Wednesday pop up stand,
Sweet yellow watermelon,
Freak out your taste buds.

malabar chestnuts
Malabar chestnuts, or saba nuts, can be cooked or eaten raw. Yum!

All kinds of fruit are delicious on salads (and maybe, some malabar chestnuts too!). We have so much salad! The perfect little rain showers and cooler days have made it possible. Come on out for a one hour Wednesday afternoon pop-up farmstand from 5:30pm – 6:30pm at ARTfarm on the South Shore. Thanks again to Chef Lisa Coates for the haiku inspo.

As last week, there are farm goodies to be had as the tomato season wanes and we get into the fruitier time of year. Try a small bag of malabar chestnuts – these hazelnut sized treats are pre-hulled for you – beautiful to handle and look at, with a delicious delicate soft nut inside the stripy outer skin (you can easily crack on a solid surface and peel with your fingers). They can be enjoyed raw or roasted or cooked or made into flour… a fun snack.

Early Birds

Pomegranates
Cherry tomatoes
Small tomatoes
Malabar chestnuts
Baby bok Choy
French breakfast radishes
Eggs, pastured, from Mongoose&Zinnia
Carrots
Fennel
Dill
Parsley
Italian basil

Plenty

YELLOW WATERMELON, peeps!
Baby arugula
Sweet salad mixed with spicy
Sweet salad mix
Purple sweet potato
Orange sweet potato
Sliced pumpkin
Ginger
Turmeric
Lemongrass
Crabapples
Seriously is anyone reading this
Kafir leaves
Scallions