TOMATO PEAK! ARTfarm Pickups Sat. March 4th! Reservations 11 am – 1:30 pm, OPEN for all 1 – 1:30 pm

Different varieties of heirloom tomatoes in a large harvesting bin
A rainbow of heirloom tomatoes – the flavor is so sweet and complex – who needs cheesecake when you can have these sliced thin with some fresh mozzerella??

Sweet TOMATOES FOR DESSERT! ARTfarm in winter has salad greens and so much much more! We select obscure veggie varieties with the best flavor!! All. The. Tomatoes: juicy heirlooms, cherries, slicers) plus no-peel-em crunchy tender cucumbers, kale, pumpkins, zucchini, arugula, spicy greens, hot peppers and more. Reservations open on Tuesdays and Fridays, to hold you a spot for a scheduled pickup, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sign up below for one of 65 reserved pickup timeslots, for Saturday starting at 11 am! If you missed this signup, there will be another one in less than a week. You can also swing by at the last half hour for open shopping, but reserved customers will head to the front of the line!

Instructions below if you’re new. Can’t find the confirmation email? Click HERE. If you need to contact us, text or call the farm phone, (340) 514-4873. Welcome!

  1. Check out our different size preorder ‘farmshare’ selections listed below
  2. See details and a list of extra add-on items available first-come-first-served during your pickup time
  3. Click the link and fill in our quick reservation form. (Reserve an earlier pickup time to catch these first-come-first-serve items)
  4. More details for newbies below!

Brisk farm workouts in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smokers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time, mainly to do garden bed preparation. You can get a great ab and full body workout, mostly standing using rakes and hoes. There is also sifting of compost, hand weeding, late day transplanting and more. Learn about market gardening, construction, food prep. Fast walkers encouraged. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills and efficiency.

Farmshare choices for Saturday, March 4th, 2023:

We will have 65 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Saturday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and you CAN order more than one farmshare. At the farmstand, you can choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare minimum purchase.

BIG TEEN ARU farmshare, $39, will include:
    • 2 bags of sweet salad mix
    • 1 bag of teen arugula
    • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
    • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
BIG SPICY ‘n’ SWEET farmshare, $31, will include:
    • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
    • 1 bag of teen spicy salad mix
    • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
    • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
SWEET n’ CHERRY farmshare, $14, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
TOMATO farmshare, $10, (makes a great addition with another share) will include:
  • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
  • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
    MORE TOMATOES 4LB farmshare, $16, (make the sauce) will include:
    • 4 lb. smaller mixed tomatoes (discount per lb.)
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)

(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):

early birds:
    • Mediterranean FIGS
    • TOMATO 2nds
    • teen SPICY SALAD MIX
    • teen ARUGULA
    • Japanese heirloom CUCUMBERS
    • KALE
    • sweet PEPPERS
    • ZUCCHINI/Summer SQUASH
plenty:
    • fresh mixed LETTUCE heads
    • fresh ROMAINE lettuce heads
    • hot PEPPERS
    • CARROTS with juicable tops
    • SWEET POTATOES
    • slicer TOMATOES
    • HEIRLOOM tomatoes
    • CHERRY tomato pints
    • Italian DANDELION greens
    • various Winter SQUASH/PUMPKINS including Delicata!
    • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
    • baby GINGER: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
    • baby TURMERIC: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
    • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS or included in farmshare)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Lemon basil
  • Holy basil
  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Garlic chives
  • Kafir lime leaves
  • Lemongrass
  • Parsley
  • Scallions

Please contact us immediately by TEXT or PHONE at (340) 514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.

New to ARTfarm? HOW TO ‘ORDER’:

During the COVID era we switched to a pre-order system instead of open farmstands, and customers preferred the predictability and drastically shorter wait times. So we’ve stuck with it, for now.

1. Order/reserve at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) and choose your timeslot ahead on our website form (the link above)

2. The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com (JOTFORM IS SINGULAR, no ‘S’)– this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list!

2. Please arrive in our parking lot on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. We appreciate your cooperation!

3. At the stand, if you’re at all not feeling well, please bring a mask. We’ll call your name during your timeslot in order of signup. Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag until we’ve totaled up your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the blue bucket, we try not to handle cash.

Please note: With all the flu and viral infections circulating and effects of the “tripledemic”, some of which we have experienced, and Farmer Luca caring for his elderly folks who are immune compromised, we’d appreciate if all customers would help us stay healthy and working, and PLEASE wear a mask if your’e not feeling well, and maintain social distancing when interacting with us at the ARTfarm stand this winter season. Please help us healthy at work, and protect our family and friends! We shall do the same! We are all one! Grateful for life!!

ARTfarm is a tiny mom and pop family farm who have been growing food with sustainable organic and permaculture methods on St. Croix since 1999. See our FAQs for more info!

Thank you!

The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – check the spelling, jotform has no ‘s’… this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.

Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here):
Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.

A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.

Q: My order isn’t going through.
  • if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
  • and the ‘all mail’ folder
  • make sure all required fields are filled/selected
  • just try again
  • use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
  • restart your browser/device
  • clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
  • reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.

Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.

Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.

Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!

ARTfarm Pickups Wed. March 1st! Reservations 4 – 6:30 pm, OPEN for all 6 – 6:30 pm

Japanese cucumbers are still juicy and crunchy in drought conditions when grown on a Hugelkultur bed at ARTfarm – a garden area where logs have been buried underneath to hold moisture and mycorrhizal activity.

Get your fresh flavor foodie freak on! ARTfarm in winter has salad greens and so much much more! We select obscure veggie varieties with the best flavor!! All. The. Tomatoes (so-sweet-they-stand-in-for-dessert juicy heirlooms, cherries, slicers) plus no-peel-em crunchy tender cucumbers, kale, radishes and turnips, zucchini, arugula, spicy greens, hot peppers and more. Reservations open on Tuesdays and Fridays, to hold you a spot for a scheduled pickup, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sign up below for one of 75 reserved pickup timeslots, for Wednesday starting at 4 pm! If you missed this signup, there will be another one in less than a week. You can also swing by at the last half hour for open shopping, but reserved customers will head to the front of the line!

Please wear a mask at the ARTfarm pickup table. Instructions below if you’re new. Can’t find the confirmation email? Click HERE. If you need to contact us, text or call the farm phone, (340) 514-4873. Welcome!

  1. Check out our different size preorder ‘farmshare’ selections listed below
  2. See details and a list of extra add-on items available first-come-first-served during your pickup time
  3. Click the link and fill in our quick reservation form. (Reserve an earlier pickup time to catch these first-come-first-serve items)
  4. More details for newbies below!

Brisk farm workouts in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smokers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time, mainly to do garden bed preparation. You can get a great ab and full body workout, mostly standing using rakes and hoes. There is also sifting of compost, hand weeding, late day transplanting and more. Learn about market gardening, construction, food prep. Fast walkers encouraged. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills and efficiency.

Farmshare choices for Wednesday, March 1st, 2023:

We will have 75 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and you CAN order more than one farmshare. At the farmstand, you can choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare minimum purchase.

SPICY SQUASHY farmshare, $35, will include:
    • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
    • 1 bag of teen spicy salad mix
    • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
    • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
    • 1 lb. zucchini/squash
BIG TEEN ARU farmshare, $39, will include:
    • 2 bags of sweet salad mix
    • 1 bag of teen arugula
    • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
    • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
SWEET n’ CHERRY farmshare, $14, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
TOMATO farmshare, $10, (makes a great addition with another share) will include:
  • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
  • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)

(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):

early birds:
    • Mediterranean FIGS
    • TOMATO 2nds
    • teen SPICY SALAD MIX
    • Japanese heirloom CUCUMBERS
    • KALE
    • sweet PEPPERS
    • SWEET POTATOES
    • ONIONS with green tops – YUM
    • ZUCCHINI/Summer SQUASH
    • various Winter SQUASH/PUMPKINS including Delicata!
plenty:
    • fresh mixed LETTUCE heads
    • fresh ROMAINE lettuce heads
    • hot PEPPERS
    • CARROTS with juicable tops
    • slicer TOMATOES
    • HEIRLOOM tomatoes
    • CHERRY tomato pints
    • Italian DANDELION greens
    • RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
    • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
    • baby GINGER: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
    • baby TURMERIC: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
    • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS or included in farmshare)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Lemon basil
  • Holy basil
  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Garlic chives
  • Kafir lime leaves
  • Lemongrass
  • Parsley
  • Scallions

Please contact us immediately by TEXT or PHONE at (340) 514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.

New to ARTfarm? HOW TO ‘ORDER’:

During the COVID era we switched to a pre-order system instead of open farmstands, and customers preferred the predictability and drastically shorter wait times. So we’ve stuck with it, for now.

1. Order/reserve at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) and choose your timeslot ahead on our website form (the link above)

2. The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list!

2. Please arrive in our parking lot on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. We appreciate your cooperation!

3. At the stand, please bring a mask. We’ll call your name during your timeslot in order of signup. Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag until we’ve totaled up your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the blue bucket, we try not to handle cash.

Please note: With all the flu and viral infections circulating and effects of the “tripledemic”, some of which we have experienced, and Farmer Luca caring for his elderly folks who are immune compromised, we’d appreciate if all customers would help us stay healthy and working, and PLEASE wear a mask and maintain social distancing when interacting with us at the ARTfarm stand this winter season. We went maskless for a while, and hope to loosen restrictions again soon, but for now please help us healthy at work, and protect our family and friends! We shall do the same! We are all one! Grateful for life!!

ARTfarm is a tiny mom and pop family farm who have been growing food with sustainable organic and permaculture methods on St. Croix since 1999. See our FAQs for more info!

Thank you!

The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.

Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here):
Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.

A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.

Q: My order isn’t going through.
  • if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
  • and the ‘all mail’ folder
  • make sure all required fields are filled/selected
  • just try again
  • use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
  • restart your browser/device
  • clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
  • reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.

Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.

Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.

Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!

ARTfarm Pickups Sat. Feb. 25th! 11 am – 12:30 pm, OPEN for all 12:30 – 1:15 pm

ETA: Farmshare signups are open until noon, after that just plan to swing by between 12:30 and 1:15, we’ll be open for anyone, no reservation needed.

Winter bounty down the South Shore: fresh salad greens and so much much more! Cooler nights make for sweeter lettuce! Also featuring cucumbers, kale, radishes and turnips, red/orange sweet potatoes and more. Reserve a spot for a scheduled pickup, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sign up below for one of 70 ‘health-bubble’ pickup timeslots, for Saturday starting at 11 am! If you missed this signup, there will be another one in less than a week.

The hilarious comedy musical Sister Act is now SOLD OUT this third and final weekend (Fri Sat Feb 24-25th 8pm and added matinee Sunday, 26th 4pm). Thanks everyone for coming to the show and supporting the arts on St. Croix!

Please wear a mask at the ARTfarm pickup table. Instructions below if you’re new. Can’t find the confirmation email? Click HERE. If you need to contact us, text or call the farm phone, (340) 514-4873. Welcome!

Choose from four different size preorder ‘farmshare’ selections that include bags of sweet salad mix, herbs, veggies and/or plenty of tomatoes. See details and a list of extra add-on items available first-come-first-served during your pickup time, below. Reserve an earlier pickup time to catch these first-come-first-serve items.

Brisk farm workouts in peaceful breezy nature available: We’re looking for volunteers (non smokers). Luca could use a hand even if it’s only for two hours at a time, mainly to do garden bed preparation. You can get a great ab and full body workout, mostly standing using rakes and hoes. There is also sifting of compost, hand weeding, late day transplanting and more. Learn about market gardening, construction, food prep. Fast walkers encouraged. Could convert to part-time employment depending on skills and efficiency.

Feeling a little under the weather during flu and cold season? Grab a couple of bags of fresh organic local ginger root and a knob of turmeric, and make yourself a health boosting ginger/turmeric tonic to keep in the fridge and add to hot or cold drinks, smoothies, soups, sautees and anything else! Helps move a cold along, opens the sinuses, and it’s great for digestion. Recipe below:

ginger and turmeric root, and jars of prepared ginger/turmeric concentrate

ARTfarm Ginger-turmeric Tonic

  • Put 2 or 3 hands fresh washed ginger and a thumb of fresh turmeric in a strong blender like a Vitamix (no need to peel our baby ginger with its translucent thin skin!). Add a pinch of black pepper, which makes the turmeric’s medicinal qualities more readily absorbable by your body.
  • Cover generously with water and blend until you have a smooth, creamy purée.
  • Place it in a sauce pan on the stove, and bring to a simmer.
  • Let cool, and strain solids out.
  • Keep it in a jar or pitcher in the fridge and splash a couple teaspoons or tablespoons into anything you’re drinking —from hot tea to plain old water. (I put some in my mocha coffee sometimes!)
  • You can add some honey or maple syrup to the beverage, and/or have it undiluted as a shot, with a little bit of lemon or apple cider vinegar for a health tonic.
  • We keep the strained leftover ginger solids in a jar in the fridge and use it by the spoonful in cooking. It’s a great little addition of ginger and fiber, added to soups, sauces, sautees, salad dressing, even brownies!
Fresh picked same day local herbs grown with pure rainwater will make every dish come alive! Throw a few handfuls in the blender and make a goddess dressing! So refreshing!

Farmers Luca and Christina want to take a moment to encourage everyone to support local farmers. If you can’t make it to our farmstand, don’t forget about Sejah Farm, another wonderful mom and pop farm/market that sells their own produce plus lots of produce from all over St. Croix. They have a wide selection and are open more hours and days than we are, and run amazing educational programs too. There is also the Saturday producers’ market at the Department of Agriculture grounds where you can buy directly from farmers. And there are many farms with a stand out front including Grantley Samuel and Mr. Smithen the Cane Man on Centerline Road.

Remember the best way to support agriculture in the US Virgin Islands is to buy produce directly from farmers.

Hop down to the South Shore and see Farmer Luca!

New to ARTfarm? HOW TO ‘ORDER’:

During the COVID era we switched to a pre-order system instead of open farmstands, and customers preferred the predictability and shorter wait times: Order/reserve at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) and choose your timeslot ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please arrive in our parking lot on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. We appreciate your cooperation!

At the stand, please bring a mask. We’ll call your name during your timeslot in order of signup. Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag until we’ve totaled up your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the blue bucket, we try not to handle cash.

Please note: With all the flu and viral infections circulating and effects of the “tripledemic”, some of which we have experienced, and Farmer Luca caring for his elderly folks who are immune compromised, we’d appreciate if all customers would help us stay healthy and working, and PLEASE wear a mask and maintain social distancing when interacting with us at the ARTfarm stand this winter season. We shall do the same! We are all one! Grateful for life!!

ARTfarm is a tiny mom and pop family farm who have been growing food with sustainable organic and permaculture methods on St. Croix since 1999. See our FAQs for more info!

Thank you!

Farmshare choices for Saturday, February 25th, 2023:

Oh kale yes! Rinse well and chop fine in any dish; sauté with garlic; or toss with spices and oil and roast in the oven to make kale chips! Melt in your mouth!

We will have 70 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Saturday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and you CAN order more than one farmshare. At the farmstand, you can choose from remaining add-on extras and we’ll total your order. We are chronically understaffed and need to keep farmstand hours brief; add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare minimum purchase.

SPICY SQUASHY farmshare, $37, will include:
    • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
    • 1 bag of baby spicy salad mix
    • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
    • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
    • 1 lb. zucchini/squash
BIG BABY ARU farmshare, $41, will include:
    • 2 bags of sweet salad mix
    • 1 bag of baby arugula
    • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
    • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
SWEET n’ CHERRY farmshare, $14, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
TOMATO farmshare, $10, (makes a great addition with another share) will include:
  • 1 lb. heirloom tomatoes
  • 1 lb. slicer tomatoes
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)

(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):

early birds:
    • Mediterranean FIGS
    • TOMATO 2nds
    • teen SPICY SALAD MIX
    • baby ARUGULA
    • Japanese heirloom CUCUMBERS
    • KALE
    • sweet PEPPERS
    • SWEET POTATOES
    • ONIONS with green tops – YUM
plenty:
    • fresh mixed LETTUCE heads
    • fresh ROMAINE lettuce heads
    • ZUCCHINI/Summer SQUASH
    • hot PEPPERS
    • CARROTS with juicable tops
    • slicer TOMATOES
    • HEIRLOOM tomatoes
    • CHERRY tomato pints
    • Italian DANDELION greens
    • RADISHES with green tops, $3/bunch
    • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
    • baby GINGER: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
    • baby TURMERIC: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
    • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS or included in farmshare)

  • Italian (Genovese) basil
  • Lemon basil
  • Holy basil
  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Garlic chives
  • Kafir lime leaves
  • Lemongrass
  • Parsley
  • Scallions

Please contact us immediately by TEXT or PHONE at (340) 514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.

During this raging flu and cold “tripledemic” season, due to family members and customers who are immuno-compromised, we’d appreciate everyone wearing masks at ARTfarm during pickups. We went maskless for a while, and hope to loosen restrictions again soon, but for now please help us healthy at work, and protect our family and friends!

The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, trash, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, and search for noreply@jotform.com – this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.

Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here):
Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.

A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.

Q: My order isn’t going through.
  • if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
  • and the ‘all mail’ folder
  • make sure all required fields are filled/selected
  • just try again
  • use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
  • restart your browser/device
  • clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
  • reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.

Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.

Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.

Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!

ARTfarm Farmshare Popup Preorders for Pickup Wednesday 5/11/2022, 4:30–6 PM!

It is officially the off season for us, and the pineapples are almost ready. For now, ARTfarm is not on a regular weekly schedule, but we have enough salad greens for a smaller group of customers to pick up Wednesday, and you can reserve more than one share for Wednesday’s pickup. At 4:30pm we’ll start distributions for 25 farmshares with our fresh sweet salad greens, with extras available like eggs from Mongoose & Zinnia, two kinds of radishes (sliced thin for quick pickling is great) with their included lovely green tops (chop into a salad or de-pepper them by gently sauteing); our sweet onions, winter squash, sweet peppers and more listed below… We’ll be serving you one at a time inside our old farmstand building, so arrive on time for your group and listen for your name to be called in the parking lot; and play the ladybug game: one customer per ladybug inside the gate (and masks up with farm staff please)! Please arrive on time but not more than 10 minutes early to prevent traffic jams and longer wait times. We appreciate your cooperation!

Have you ever been in a musical theater production? You work for weeks on your audition, then months and months blocking, choreographing, rehearsing, building sets and getting everything ready, and after an excruciatingly long time your hard work pays off and there’s opening night? Well, we finally got our World Central Kitchen trailer delivered to the farm last week (wild applause!!!). We will be retrofitting this former refrigerated container to house our cold storage and processing facilities. We are super excited! This summer we will complete the retrofit and put it into service for the upcoming season.

Masking rules are changing, and eventually we may go back to a more traditional first-come-first-served farmstand experience, but at ARTfarm we’d still like to remain cautious for the moment. For your safety and ours we are continuing to crowd control with preorders – scheduled customer pickup timeslots served in order of your order submission, and super spaced lines. Wed appreciate for now, customers continuing to mask when passing by others in line or interacting with our farming family/in the farmstand, to help protect our loved ones and customers with compromised immune systems and/or health complications. We are all one! Grateful for life!!

Still not open for regular retail. If you’re new to ARTfarm or haven’t been to see us since the COVID-19 pandemic began, please read THIS PAGE to familiarize yourself with our new socially distanced pre-order arrangements. We are not holding regular retail farmstands at this time. In a nutshell:

Order at least one farmshare (minimum purchase) ahead on our website; check for your confirmation email so you know your name will be on the list! Please practice all the protective measures possible: Sanitize hands in your car before joining us, Maintain social distance between yourself, farm staff and other customers; Masks up when talking to farm staff or other customers; Let the farmer handle the produce for you; Choose extras from first-come-first-served availability; Wait to bag until we’ve totaled up your items; Bring change, cash or check and pen; drop payment in the bucket, we will not handle cash. During this adjustment period, masks are still mandatory at ARTfarm when less than 10 feet from another customer or farm staff. We’re cautiously optimistic we may be able to loosen restrictions soon, but for now please help us protect our at-risk family members and customers!

Three generations of Gasperi farmers on St. Croix! On Monday, April 4, 2022 Luca’s dad Kiko was honored by the 33rd legislature of the US Virgin Islands with a Perma-Plaque for his lifetime contributions to the development of the Senepol cattle breed, a beef breed that originated on Saint Croix USVI in the early 1900s. Senepol cattle are known for their excellent performance when pastured under brittle, droughtlike conditions and scrub forage, and the breed is now a significant addition to sustainable beef production across the US Sun Belt and South America. Kiko Gasperi came to St. Croix from Italy in the late 1960s to work at Castle Nugent with his brother Dr. Mario Gasperi, and served as the ranch manager for Castle Nugent Farms under his sister-in-law Caroline and her son Mauro after Mario’s passing in 1989. Kiko spent many years building and mending fencing, tagging calves, dipping herds, and managing pasture. In the hotter part of the day for thirty years he’d be found in his office poring over breeding records and selecting the best animals based on performance to improve the Senepol breed. Our thanks to Senator Myron Jackson who pushed for this resolution to honor the elders who were involved in this work.

Farmshare choices for Wednesday, May 11th, 2022:

We will have 25 timeslots/farmshares available for scheduled pickup Wednesday. You can also order and specify a neighbor, friend or family member to pick up your order and theirs. The minimum order is one farmshare, and you can order more than one farmshare. Add-ons and extras are not currently available independently of a farmshare purchase; to minimize community contact during the pandemic.

THREE GREENS farmshare, $21, will include:
  • 3 bags of sweet salad mix
ONE GREENS farmshare, $7, will include:
  • 1 bag of sweet salad mix
Extra Add-Ons (non-reservable)

(Must accompany farmshare purchase, these items cannot be purchased individually. No reservations on these items, they are all first come first served during your pickup slot):

early birds:
  • extra bag of SWEET SALAD MIX: $7
  • ONIONS with green edible tops: $5/bunch
  • winter SQUASH: $3.50/lb. as marked
  • mini SWEET PEPPERS: $3/bundle
plenty:
  • white large or red french mini RADISHES with yummy green tops: $3/bunch
  • ‘Mongoose & Zinnia’ pasture raised EGGS: $8/doz
    red and green POBLANO peppers, smoky sweet and mildly hot, great fresh/dried: $3/bundle
  • assorted HERBS bunches: $2 each
  • GINGER/TURMERICS: $3.50/bag ($7 half pound)
  • Zinnia flower BOUQUETS: $5
  • “Natural Mystic” self-pollinating DRAGONFRUIT CUTTINGS – 30-36″ XL vine cutting, $15 each
  • PINEAPPLE slips to grow-ur-own: $2-3 each as sized
Herb bunch choices for this distribution

(Available as EXTRAS)

  • Garlic chives
  • Lemongrass
Hens and chicks is one name for this succulent, drought tolerant ornamental plant.

Please contact us immediately by text and phone at (340) 514-4873 if you have reserved a farmshare and cannot pick it up. Supply is limited, demand is extremely high and someone else will gladly purchase your share, if given enough time to respond. We have limited time for distributions and they are scheduled. Our produce is harvested fresh and needs to go home with you same day. This is an honor system since we are not collecting payment until pickup. We do not have cold storage for uncollected shares.

The signup form will show you a “Thank You” page and send you a confirmation email if submitted successfully. If you don’t find it, please check your spam/junk, inbox tabs, and ‘all mail’ folders for the confirmation email, as this has been a common problem for several customers and with a little searching they typically find it. For more tips, visit our Help page.

Need help with the pre-order signup form? (Click here):
Q: I can’t seem to order more than one item.

A: We have designed our order form limit any one customer from cleaning us out. Sharing is caring. If you’d like extra of something (beyond what you could reserve through our order system), put it in the comments with your order, and remind us at your pickup time: if we can supply it to you we’ll do our best. If you are in the food service industry and looking for bulk availability, please contact us; our order form is for individuals and families to place a single order for a scheduled pickup.

Q: My order isn’t going through.
  • if the automated confirmation email is not immediately found, check your spam folder
  • and the ‘all mail’ folder
  • make sure all required fields are filled/selected
  • just try again
  • use a cellular device (smartphone or tablet) that isn’t using WiFi internet
  • restart your browser/device
  • clear your cache and cookies in your browser/device
  • reboot your router (unplug it for a minute and plug in again)
  • visit our “help” page for additional tips
Q: The form says I didn’t enter my email, but I did.

Our pre-order form requires everyone to type their email in twice, and makes sure the two match exactly. We had a lot of customers in such a rush to get their order in that they’d spell their own email incorrectly and then complain that they could not find the confirmation email. Our ‘type it in twice’ system ensures that you’ll find any email mistakes before you submit the pre-order form.

Q: I ordered before, but I’m not getting your emails.

Our pre-order form does NOT automatically sign you up for an ARTfarm email subscription. Do that HERE!