Tag: summer

posts between June 21st and September 21st

Summer Corn!! ARTfarm 10am – 12noon

Okay, the headliner at ARTfarm today is sweet corn. SWEET CORN. We have these incredible 7 foot tall plants that grew in a heartbeat with all the rain in May, and the corn is so sweet that we would seriously classify this as a dessert item! 100% non-GMO, people. Some corn today, a bigger harvest on Wednesday.

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Also starring: microgreens, micro spicy, spicy mix, sweet mix, baby arugula, dandelion greens, three types of basil, recao, garlic chives, cooling lemongrass, crispy cucumbers, long beans, a few tomatoes, fresh Mediterranean figs, Thai mangoes from Alex, papayas from Reuben, ice cream from I-Sha, honey from Wanda, bread and bagels from Tess, zinnia flowers.

Fruity Saturday at ARTfarm

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It’s officially mango season!! Today’s stand starts with a mélange of sweet and juicy local fruit: bananas from Reuben Liburd, Haitian kidney and Nam Duc Mai mangoes from Alex Ettienne, ARTfarm pineapples & papaya!! Microgreens, Kan-Kong (Asian spinach), sweet peppers, hot peppers, cherry tomatoes, pumpkin, beets, scallions, bok choi, Bodhi yard-long beans, garlic chives; italian, lemon, thai and holy basil;  lemongrass, zinnia flowers; native trees, and pineapple slips.

10am – 12 noon every Saturday. We are discontinuing Monday farmstands until next year. Wednesday hours are now 3-6pm! Thanks for your support.

Fruity Summer Stand! 10am!!

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Saturday ARTfarmstand, 10am-12noon today. Things are getting fruitier!

Pineapples, papaya, shaddock; bananas from Reuben Liburd; from Aberra Bulbulla’s garden: Malay apple (wax jambu), pomerac and star apple.

Sweet mix, spicy mix, microgreens, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, pumpkin, asian eggplant, sweet peppers, hot peppers, Bodhi beans, Italian basil, holy basil, lemon basil, scallions, cilantro, garlic chives, lemongrass, honey, zinnia flowers, Feel I’s vegan ice cream.

Come out and watch the grass grow!

ARTfarm Closing for a Quick End-Of-Summer Break…

This morning’s farmstand was our last for a few weeks. We’ve got to focus our full attention on some big projects, to make the farm more productive and sustainable in the coming seasons.

We’ll reopen in mid-October with a new rainwater catchment pond, some new signs, some new artwork in the ARTbarn and sheep grazing in our pastures! We’re seeding many crops for this coming fall and winter’s harvest now, starting a new batch of native trees from seed, and playing with a few experimental crops including local roasting corn and fig trees. Stay tuned for updates.

Three workers in a large Mars-like crater shovel rocks into the bucket of a skid steer at ARTfarm.
Three awesome ARTfarm workers - Tucker Brown, Eric Gautreau and Adrian Jordaan - in a large Mars-like crater, shovel rocks into the bucket of a skid steer in preparation for the lining of a rainwater catchment pond.

If you have some time to spare or know anyone with an interest in and enthusiasm for sustainable farming, we are always looking for reliable nonsmoking volunteers and workers who’d like to help out and learn something new. (It’s not ALL shovelling rocks!) Give us a call at (340)514-4873 or pass our website along to those who might be interested: artfarmLLC.com.