Tag: St. Croix

Winter Rain Lettuces & Breakfast Radishes at ARTfarm today

Taste the winter rain: Romaine – like lettuce fresh picked this morning, and tender oak leaf lettuces, available by the head. Also this morning 10am – 12noon at ARTfarm: Tiny pink French breakfast radishes with the sweetest greens you ever ate, white carrots, beets, onions, microgreens, sweet salad mix, spicy mix, teen arugula, teen spicy mix, escarole, dandelion and mustard greens, Italian basil, holy (Tulsi) basil, lemon basil, Korean mint, lemon balm, garlic chives, cilantro, dill, sage, scallions, cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, sweet bell peppers, honey, zinnia flowers, edible flowers.

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ARTfarmstand 3-6pm today! Four kinds of cucumbers!

Lots of goodies today from 3pm – 6pm on South Shore Road — newly trimmed up by local road crews!! Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, tender young arugula, microgreens, 3 kinds of basil, 2 kinds of dandelion greens, 4 kinds of cucumbers, sage, lemongrass, garlic chives, escarole, radish greens and radishes. Get healthy! Eat fresh local foods!

A pile of beautiful green stripy cucumbers in a variety of textures at ARTfarm.
ARTfarm specializes in high quality and variety for our customers. We are growing four different types of cucumbers this season! Ask Luca to describe their different qualities, or simply buy one of each and do your own taste test!!

The Palletteers Visit the ARTfarm

The St. Croix Palletteers group poses at the ARTfarm holding the paintings they created during their visit.
The St. Croix Palletteers spent the morning exploring the ARTfarm and painting the scenery. At the end of their weekly painting session they gather to share their artworks!

The St. Croix Palletteers spent the morning exploring the ARTfarm today. They painted Senepol cows, mangoes, wooden sheds and “junk piles”. A great time was had by all!

The Palletteers have a blog at palletteersofstcroix.blogspot.com. These renegade plein air painters visit all kinds of places on St. Croix and have fun capturing the scenery.

Thanks for the visit!

ARTfarm Saturday stand today! Microgreeeeeeeens

Luca Gasperi and Eric Ogden in 2008 with our red pickup truck holding the "Grow Your Own Pineapples" sign, on our way to Mango Melee!
Luca Gasperi and Eric Ogden in 2008 with our red pickup truck holding the "Grow Your Own Pineapples" sign, on our way to Mango Melee!

Happy shiny Saturday! Today’s farmstand features tender microgreens, baby mix with lettuce, mangoes, scallions, garlic chives, Italian and lemon basil, lemongrass, kangkong (asian water spinach), Sweetface chocolates, coconut-based ice creams, and honey!

Amazingly, Luca was able to find one more row of lettuces that survived all the rains and so there will be lettuce in the baby mix today! This may truly be the last cut lettuce of the season.

We’ll see you all at our booth #7 at the Mango Melee tomorrow at the St. George Village Botanical Gardens! We’ll be there with farmer Aberra Bulbulla, selling mangoes, pineapple slips (baby plants),  jackfruit, breadfruit, young fruit trees and more.

Come out to this fantastic annual event that takes place at the height of mango season on St. Croix, and taste all kinds of fruits, join the mango eating contest, and shop the many vendors: jams and jellies, tasty local foods, local fruit ice cream, jewelry and fashion, gifts, and fantastic plants and fruit trees for sale! Twelve noon to 6:30pm, get there early as the parking lots fill up quick!

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