Tag: summer

posts between June 21st and September 21st

Nature’s Answer to the Juicebox at ARTfarm, 10am-noon Today!

We have amazingly sweet coconuts you drink right out of the nut! If you haven’t had fresh coconut juice right out of the husk, you haven’t tried what man has attempted to recreate in plastic pseudo-nutrition with Gatorade and juice boxes.

Fresh coconut juice is locally known as a kidney cleanser. It’s full of trace minerals and potassium. In wartime when plasma was not available, fresh coconut water was used in IV drips to hydrate patients in hospital.

We can cut your coconuts at the farmstand for you to drink immediately, or almost open – take a few home and stick them in the fridge. We keep a whole pitcher full of coconut water in our fridge. There is nothing better for rehydration.

For your veggie pleasure we have fresh harvested arugula, baby spicy mix, microgreens, asian spinach, garlic chives, basil, lemongrass, mangoes, avocados, Feel I’s ice cream and Sweetface chocolate!

For your yard we have native trees!

See you at the farmstand!

Saturday ARTfarmstand – sweetness!

Wah! Saturday! Baby arugula, baby spicy mix, microgreens, water spinach, basil, lemongrass, garlic chives. 5 kinds of mangoes, 4 types of avocados of varying ripeness. COCONUTS of devastating sweetness, chopped open for your enjoyment and convenience. Feel I’s vegan local ice creams, Sweetface chocolates in six flavors!

Holy Guacamole – ARTfarmstand this morning!

Whoa! Farmer Luca looks on in amazement at the giant Russell avocados!
Whoa! Farmer Luca looks on in amazement at the giant Russell avocados!

If you love giant avocados, you’ll enjoy today’s farmstand.

We also have baby spicy salad mix, microgreens, arugula, asian water spinach, garlic chives, basil, thai basil, lemongrass, and two out of season renegade cucumbers who just cropped up on their own this summer. In the fruit department we have for you today: local bananas, malay apple (aka wax jambu, Caribbean apple, pomerac), mesple (aka brown sugar fruit), mangoes and strawberry guava!

If you’ve been very very good, we have freshly made Sweetface chocolates, and Feel I’s icecreams in local fruit flavors.

And we have beautiful native trees for sale.

We love you. Come see us on this fine glittery Saturday morning, 10am to noon!

Laying Pipe

In the off season, when the tomatoes are NOT bursting off the vines, you’d think we would take it easy, go to the beach, or do some cool new paintings.

Not so, friends.

Luca operating a trencher on a skid steer in the pastures at ARTfarm
Luca operating a trencher on a skid steer in the pastures at ARTfarm. We're laying poly pipe for livestock irrigation! Photo by Mitch Amarando.

The off season is when we catch up on infrastructure projects. Luca has been cutting trenches with a skid steer using a hydraulic trenching attachment in our pastures, to bury water lines for our upcoming livestock project. We’ll be experimenting with multi-species grazing and micropasturing. We’re burying the polyethelene pipe so that it will be protected from UV damage, heavy equipment, fire, and chewing animals. It should last just about forever.