Farmer Luca will be open 5 to 6 pm Wednesday at the farm with sweet stuff… Sweet mangoes, sweet salad mix for earlybirdies, peppers, radishes and herbs. Enjoy!
End of June/early July: Nam doc mai mangoes are ripe and ready. Butterballs and pink pomegranates are also ripening.
(Most of our mangoes are smaller this year with the drier conditions which creates an extra intense flavor and sweetness)
Plenty
Sweet salad mix 
Thai mangoes (nam doc mai) smooth!!! And thin seed.
Viequen Butterball mangoes
Haitian kidney mangoes
Pomegranates – large pink, Zürich
Seasoning and serrano peppers
Large pink daikon radishes
Turmeric
Early birds
Dragonfruit
Limes (local)
Kafir leaves
Lemongrass
Italian and Thai Basil
First come first serve.
We named this mango the ‘Viequen Butterball’ for its size, sweet mellowness and lack of fiber. Tita would bring us these mangoes.
Farmer Luca will be open 5 to 6 pm Wednesday at the farm with lots of goodies, especially for the early birds… Sweet mix for everybody, veggies and fruit. Enjoy!
ARTfarm sweet lettuce mix contains six to eight varieties of green and red leaf lettuces. Biodiversity helps prevent crop failure and gives us different micronutrients for good health! Mix it up!
The farmstand will be first come first served Wednesday, 5-6pm. Tomatoes, salad greens, veggies, herbs. Full list below. No reservations. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support. We’re gonna stop doing Saturdays for a bit here. Thank you.
Links and information on the fire recovery are available HERE.
Huge thanks to the ARTfarm volunteers, fellow farmers, former employees, customers, neighbors and friends who helped fight the brushfire on March 30th that burned 80% of the farm. Kind people dropped off meals, picked up our grocery tab, and performed other kindnesses in the following days.
Superhero ARTfarm volunteers heading out at sunset after an afternoon helping
The fire destroyed a lot of pasture fencing, irrigation pipe and plastic water tanks, some crops and fruit trees, a few livestock, and a storage shed. Volunteers who want to come out and continue to assist can help: assess damage, repair and clear fence lines this weekend again on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm. No tobacco users please, and bring your own water, mask, sturdy shoes and gloves, loppers and hand saws, chainsaws, pole saws if you have them. The air quality is good now. You can text us if you think you’re going to attend. It has been a small and steady group of helpers.
Plenty for All
Sweet salad mix
Tomatoes – slicers, heirlooms and cherries
Yams
Early Birds
Cucumbers
Pumpkin
Bunched arugula
French breakfast radishes with green tops
Chinese cabbage
Kale
Baby bok choy
Baby turmeric
Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
Green and red hot peppers
Sweet frying peppers
Italian basil
Thai basil
Cilantro
Dill
Parsley
Scallions
Kaffir lime leaves
We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!
Getting to the end of the season, but these beauties are still sweet and delicious. Come and get ‘em!
Awesome ARTfarm volunteers and neighbors came out this past weekend to help assess damage and clear debris.
We had a bad brushfire on March 30th that destroyed a lot of pasture fencing, irrigation pipe and tanks, some crops and fruit trees, a few livestock, and a storage shed. Volunteers who want to come out and continue to assist can help: assess damage, collect burn debris into a waste bin, and clear fence lines this weekend again on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm. No tobacco users please, and bring your own water, mask, sturdy shoes and gloves, loppers and hand saws, chainsaws, pole saws, wheelbarrows and shovels if you have them. The air quality is improving. We have N95 masks available.
Links and information are available HERE and at the farmstand, for anyone who wishes to donate to our recovery directly OR in a fully tax deductible manner through the VI Good Food Coalition, a local non-profit farm advocacy organization who will redirect 100% of donated FARM FIRE campaign funds back to our recovery.
Incredibly, the guinea grass is resprouting after a few days of showers. The trees are showing fewer if any signs of recovery so far.
Huge thanks to the ARTfarm volunteers, fellow farmers, former employees, customers, neighbors and friends who dropped everything to join our family and members of the VI Fire Service during the initial aftermath of the blaze and dropping off meals and other kindnesses in the following days.
Wildlife and ecosystems were heavily affected by the fire, including beneficial insects that help eliminate pests.
In case you missed the information: This was a more devastating fire than the one set five years ago. We lost a lot of wild and planted trees, our equipment storage shed where ALL of our backup fencing supplies were stored, large water tanks and fittings, irrigation equipment, electric sheep and deer netting and equipment, and (we are still assessing how many) gates, wooden posts, steel posts and hundreds of linear feet of barbed and page wire fencing destroyed.
Farmer Lindsey Simmonds was one of many volunteers who arrived with family, firefighting equipment, and muscle to help us extinguish smoldering fencing posts and plant material.
The fire took about seven hours for the VIFS to extinguish and another several days of spot-treating flareups and embers, and smoldering gate posts. Two of our teen’s beloved turkeys died from bee stings and smoke inhalation the day after the fire. Countless bird nests, wild animals, beneficial insects and topsoil fauna and flora were destroyed. Deer were trapped in broken fencing as they tried to flee.
The farmstand will be first come first served Wednesday. No reservations. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.
Plenty for All
Sweet salad mix
Sweet and spicy salad mix
Early Birds
Cherry tomatoes
Slicer tomatoes
Heirloom tomatoes
Teen arugula
Yams
Tomato seconds
Chinese cabbage
Baby bok choy
Baby turmeric
Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
Green and red hot peppers
Sweet frying peppers
Italian basil
Thai basil
Cilantro
Dill
Parsley
Scallions
Kaffir lime leaves
We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!
Our beautiful heirloom and slicer tomatoes are still available! Season is coming to an end… Come and get ‘em!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 