Tag: tomato madness

ARTfarm Wednesday Afternoon Farmstand! 2/18/2026, 4:30 – 5:30PM! Fruity! Last of Longan!

Pomegranates and yellow peppers from the training pen garden. Mangoes flowering in the background.

Tomorrow afternoon’s Wednesday ARTfarm stand features carrots, scallions, along with cherry, slicer, and heirloom tomatoes, watermelon for early bird customers, veggies and a diverse selection of sweet and/or spicy salad greens!

We’ll see you Wednesday 2/18/26 from 4:30 to 5:30PM! First come, first served. We should be on the regular for the rest of this month with Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Plenty

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Carrots with green tops (juice-able)
  • Scallions
  • Sweet salad mix
  • Spicy/Sweet salad mix
  • Pomegranates
  • Kaffir limes and leaves
  • Green mild and red HOT chili peppers (bass slap) and green jalapeños (mild)

Early Birds

  • Watermelons
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Longan fruit are ending…
  • Guavas
  • Teen arugula
  • Teen spicy salad mix
  • Yellow sweet peppers
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Thai basil
  • Italian basil
  • Dill
  • Marigold and zinnia cut stem flowers

Grow Your Own

We started growing dragonfruit back in 2013 or so. Here’s a throwback photo showing the old ARTbarn gallery. Cuttings are available – you can grow your own!
Longan fruits, shown whole and broken open to expose the flesh
Longans at ARTfarm. These addictive little fruits pack a sweet crunchy juicy punch inside a leathery outer skin.

See you Wednesday February 18th, 2026, starting at 4:30PM!

ARTfarm Saturday Morning Farmstand! 1/17/2026, 10:30AM – 11:30AM! Plenty Tomatoes! (no salad greens)

If you want a green thumb (and fingers, and clothing) pick tomatoes for a few hours.

Tomorrow morning’s SATURDAY ARTfarm PopUp is the tomato party you’ve been waiting for! Heirlooms, cherries and slicers are starting to become available. Lettuce is catching up on growth so no salad greens today! Soon come!

We’ll see you today Saturday 1/17/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Italian basil
  • French breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest) 

Early Birds

  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers (Japanese, American slicers, Chinese varieties)
  • Bunched cooking greens (bok choy leaves, green mustard, cabbage leaves, Italian dandelion leaves, Chinese cabbage leaves)
  • Baby white turnips with green tops
  • Thai basil
  • Marigold and zinnia cut stem flowers
Farmer Luca sorting and stacking heirloom tomatoes in the field. Our Haley farm cargo trike holds about half a pickup truck of produce per load, human powered!
Turnips with beautiful green tops. Cook ’em like potatoes.

See you Saturday January 17, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!

ARTfarm Monday: Q & A with Farmer Luca

Q&A Monday with Farmer Luca

Q: What is your favorite fruit?
A: As of this very moment right now, FIGS. 20140224-111435.jpg

Live in the now! Today, from 3–6 p.m. on South Shore Rd.: Microgreens, sweet salad mix, teen spicy salad mix, teen arugula; TOMATO MADNESS with cherry tomatoes, big tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes in GREAT ABUNDANCE; radishes, onions, carrots, cooking greens, garlic chives, cilantro, parsley, hot chili peppers various types, farm fresh eggs from the ARTfarm chickens, and cute, cuddly, irresistible Mediterranean figs! And a new batch of I-sha vegan coconut milk ice cream in sweet, delicious St. Croix fruit and veggie flavors!!

ARTfarm Saturday: Tomato Vortex

Big tomatoes, little tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes… Yellow, orange, green, purple and classic red tomatoes. Ridiculous, innumerable, vine-ripened, juicy, intense, sweet South Shore ARTfarm tomatoes. Fed nothing but homemade compost and collected rainwater. Eat them!!

To go with your tomatoes: Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, baby spicy salad mix, baby arugula, cucumbers, carrots, onions, radishes, kale, collards, baby fennel, dandelion greens, kang-kon (asian water spinach), broccoli, bodhi beans, eggplant, sweet bell peppers, hot chili peppers, cilantro, recao, rosemary, thyme, flat leaf parsley, Italian basil, holy basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, lemon balm, lemongrass, a sprinkling of Mediterranean figs, passionfruit and fresh-cut zinnia flowers. We grew it for you!! Open 10 AM – 12 noon down the South Shore. Between Hapenny Beach and the Boy Scout camp. See you at the farmstand, and bring your galoshes! 20140125-090640.jpg