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ARTfarm Saturday Morning Farmstand! 1/31/2026, 10:30AM – 11:30AM! Tomatoes & Cukes & baby SEEDLINGS!

We are cuuk-cuuu for cukes at ARTfarm and so are our customers! Winter is the time for cucumbers to be sweetest and crispiest!

Tomorrow morning’s SATURDAY ARTfarm farmstand features all the tomatoes plus baby arugula, sweet spicy mix, peppers, and limes, and sweet salad mix. Some lettuce, heads, cukes, and cooking greens and a few herbs!

We’ll see you today Saturday 1/31/26 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM! First come, first served.

Plenty

  • Slicer tomatoes – so abundant you can come at the very end and still get plenty
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Baby arugula
  • Sweet salad mix
  • Kafir limes and leaves
  • Green and red chili peppers (hot) and green jalapeños (hottest) 

Early Birds

  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Baby spicy salad mix
  • Mini red & yellow watermelons (one per customer for now)
  • 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
  • Zinnia and marigold cut stem flowers

Grow Your Own

  • Dragonfruit cuttings
  • Pineapple slips (DIY)
  • Discounted tomato seedlings
  • Discounted mixed flower seedlings
Scrumptiously sweet yellow watermelon at ARTfarm.
Unpeeled ARTfarm pineapple slips are priced according to size. These slips, unpeeled, can be stored for several weeks before planting. They are quite tough and hardy.

See you Saturday January 31, 2026, starting at 10:30AM!

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 FRUITY Wednesday PopUp: 8/13/2025, 5-6pm: Watermelon!

Our mango-orange hued watermelons are ready! Also dragonfruit, an assortment of mangoes still, and some salad greens and cukes! Come out and enjoy! And ask about volunteering on the farm.

Delicious orangey-yellow watermelons at ARTfarm

(Most of our mangoes are smaller this year with the drier conditions which creates an extra intense flavor and sweetness)

Plenty

  • Watermelon (orange inside! So sweet and cooling!)
  • Dragonfruit (bright red inside! Put your white cotton shirt away!)
  • Valencia Pride mangoes (popular variety with elongated shape and bright flavor)
  • Viequen Butterball mangoes
  • Haitian kidney mangoes
  • Mallika mango (tastes like a super sweet and creamy orange, one of Luca’s favorites)
  • Alphonso mangoes (popular Indian variety)
  • Carrie mangoes (too delicate for stores)
  • Turmeric

Early Birds

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Japanese cucumbers

First come first served! Grateful for your support of our family farm! See you Wednesday 5-6pm!

a bicycle basket full of ripe ARTfarm mangoes in St Croix, USVI
Delicious varieties of ARTfarm mangoes! Stay sweet people! Stay sweet!

ARTfarm Open 5/21/2025 Wednesday 5 to 6 PM, summer is coming!

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!

Trays of dozens of red and green lettuce seedlings in various states of growth await transplanting at ARTfarm.
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!

Plenty

  • Sweet mix
  • Bunched arugula
  • Long pink radishes with nice tops

Early birds

  • Cucumbers
  • Mangoes
  • Watermelon
  • Pomegranate
  • Beets with green tops
  • Hot green and red peppers
  • Sweet frying peppers
  • Scallions
  • Kale
  • Turmeric
  • Ginger
  • Basil
  • Thai basil
  • Cilantro
  • Parsley
  • Dill
  • Kaffir leaves

First come first serve.