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Sweet Mix Monday at ARTfarm! 3-5:30pm today!

We had a great time at the Ag Fair yesterday!

We are OPEN this afternoon to supply you with healthy organic foods, closing out your holiday weekend! At ARTfarm this afternoon 3-5:30pm, we’ve got our sweet salad mix in half pound bags, beautiful reddish-purplish beets, purple yard-long bodhi beans, fresh-cut flowers, lots of heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes in many colors and flavors, red slicing tomatoes, cucumbers, dandelion greens, kale, broccoli leaves, Chinese cabbage, the last cabbage head of the season, red mustard, Italian basil, lemon basil, onions, garlic chives, scallions, cilantro, dill, parsley, sage, coriander, sweet bell peppers, hot peppers, papayas, pumpkin, lemongrass, and fennel!

Luca and his scarecrow, harvesting beautiful produce!
Luca and his scarecrow, harvesting beautiful produce at ARTfarm!

Make a salad for Washington’s Birthday!

ARTfarm stand open today Monday from 3 – 5:30pm – MORE TOMATO MADNESS!

Closeup of a red-tipped head of green sweet lettuce grown at ARTfarm.
We grow many varieties of sweet lettuce at ARTfarm. Enjoy a head of lettuce or pick up a bag of our freshly made salad mix with six varieties of sweet lettuce!

Slicer tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, mild spicy mix, arugula, lettuce heads, beans, Chinese cabbage, kale, escarole, holy basil, italian basil, lemon basil, garlic chives, two types of cilantro, dill, lemongrass cut to order, sweet green peppers and papayas.

We might be a little bit low on our usual rainbow of zinnia flowers today, as we hosted a very beautiful wedding on Saturday night at the farm! Congratulations Amy and Justin!

All organically grown with extra love, for you! Happy Monday!

ARTfarm OPEN on MONDAYS! Happy New Year!

Farmer Luca Gasperi reaches into a harvest bin full of ripe cherry tomatoes at ARTfarm.
2011-2012 has been a particularly great season for tomatoes. The plants are growing in areas that have had natural organic soil amendments for the last two years, and the record rainfall and cool temperatures have combined to make the plants super productive!

We’re now open every Monday, 3-5:30pm. We’ll have big ripe heirloom slicer tomatoes, sweet cherry tomatoes, three varieties of fresh picked lettuce heads, basil in three flavors: lemon, holy and italian, garlic chives, cilantro, cucumbers, cooking greens, papayas, and colorful zinnias. We have yellow pear cherry tomato plants for sale, ready to put in a pot or your garden! And spicy salad mix for one or two early birds.

We still have a few of our reusable ARTfarm shopping bags left! $7 for the regular size (replaces up to four disposable plastic grocery bags) and $10 for the really big ones (can work as a beach bag too). They stuff into their own cute tiny little stuff sacks with a tiny carabiner to clip onto your keys or toss into your purse. We used our ChicoBags for years for our own grocery and other shopping, and decided to get some for our customers to try. Kick the plastic grocery bag habit in 2012 with us!

Our farmstand schedule still includes Wednesday afternoons, 3 – 5:30pm, and Saturday mornings, 10am – 12 noon.

Tomatoes…and introducing our new pasture management team.

Five hair sheep in a paddock at ARTfarm
ARTfarm welcomes the newest members of our Pasture Management Team: Sleepy, Coco, Yooyoo, Nobby, and Whoopsie. These local hair sheep are Dorper, St. Croix White and Brazilian Nova mixes.

We are now at the point in the season where we put up the giant “TOMATOES” sign, and you’ll start to see our cherry tomatoes in local fine dining establishments!

Saturday morning’s stand will also include fresh microgreens, sweet mix, spicy mix, teen spicy, a plethora of varied cooking greens, herbs including some new ones for this season (sage! holy basil!) and your old favorites (delfino cilantro, italian, lemon and thai basils, thyme, caribbean oregano, lemongrass, garlic chives, and giant scallions!)…cucumbers, lettuce heads, and of course giant zinnia flowers, chocolates and a few baked treats!

Please call or let us know at the stand,  if you’d like to special order fresh local meats: chicken (half or whole), lamb or goat (leg, roast, cut for stew).

ARTfarm gift certificates are beautiful and make a thoughtful gift.

And in other exciting farm news, our Livestock Manager has acquired five experienced new employees (pictured above) who are charged with improving our pastures and keeping things nicely trimmed around the farm. Please join us in welcoming Coco, Sleepy, Yooyoo, Whoopsie and Nobby. They’re all expecting! Christina plans to bring them out to visit at the farmstand after they’ve had a chance to get accustomed to their new home and the staff.

Come visit the ARTfarm!