Tag: weather

ARTfarm Saturday 10am – 12noon! Drying out!

Well, that was quite the heavy rinse cycle over the last two weeks, but we did not wash away into the sea. We’ve got a lot of variety for you this morning: sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, arugula, baby spicy salad, cucumbers, bodhi beans, kale, Chinese cabbage, dandelion greens, lettuce heads, radishes, beets, sweet potatoes, sweet potato greens, four types of basil, cilantro, dill, parsley, recao, garlic chives, thyme, sage, rosemary, lemongrass, Julie mangoes, native trees, pineapple slips, fig trees, and zinnia flowers. All grown here in the sweet and spicy South Shore cattle country soil by Luca, Justin, Kiko and Joy.

From our friends: Errol’s super dark honey, vegan fruity ice cream from I-Sha, breads from Tess, carambola and eggfruit from Alex, and fresh wahoo and dolphin from Ryan and Kim.

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Rain or shine – ARTfarm opens tomorrow (Saturday)!!

For true! ARTfarm is opening for the season tomorrow (Saturday, October 13) at 10 AM! It’s supposed to be raining buckets in the morning! We love rain! We love moisture! Come and play in some puddles with us!

Tomorrow morning’s farmstand, rain or shine, will feature iron-rich green leafy vegetables that can help build up your reserves; as Halloween is coming, is it not? We’ll have: microgreens, micro/lettuce mix (weather permitting), bunched arugula, young dandelion greens, radishes, Nam doc mai mangoes, limes, lemongrass, garlic chives, holy, italian and thai basil, local dark honey from Wanda’s friend Patricia Cabral, and zinnias.

We ate steamed radish tops with lime juice last night and they were AMAZING. And today, we were full of ENERGY…

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ARTfarm Happy Monday – Ice Cream is Back!

Tiny green orbs pop out of pink spires of mango tree blooms. Soon they will become large, heavy mango fruits.
Tiny green orbs pop out of pink spires of mango tree blooms, at ARTfarm on St. Croix's South Shore. In a few months they will grow to become large, sweet, heavy mango fruits.

Have you noticed it getting drier, windier and hotter this month? Normally things would dry up in January or earlier, but we’ve been blessed with an extended rainy season this year. On the south shore of St. Croix, the air smells different. Pastures are starting to dry up quickly and the hills are changing from a vibrant green to some more muted shades that are shifting into gold and brown. We are watering our crops more often. As the tomatoes get more flavorful on the vine, the mango flowers are starting to set fruit for June.

All this dry heat means that it is time to treat ourselves to a delicious cold frosty Feel I ice cream!! YES! It’s back!! Today we have Feel I’s mango, guava, passionfruit, and banana flavors, all made from local fruit and local coconut cream – no dairy. Get one of each!

We’ve got Sweetface chocolates, too, if you need darker decadance.

If you’re feeling more savory, we’ve got baby spicy salad mix, sweet mix, cherry and big tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkin, scallions, garlic chives, sage, green coriander, Italian basil, sweet and hot peppers.

For a pop of color, go for a bunch of fresh cut zinnias, a sunflower or two, and a papaya!

See you this afternoon, 3-5:30pm.

So it’s a little muddy… ARTfarm’s OPEN 3-5:30 today

Rainy rainy rainy rainy day. We’re open anyway.

Small person in flowery dress with rubber rain boots and flowery umbrella among the flowers and herb rows at ARTfarm on a very rainy day.
Small person in flowery dress with rubber rain boots and flowery umbrella among the flowers and herb rows at ARTfarm on a very rainy day.

Kale, collards, baby bok choi, chinese cabbage; baby spicy mix, baby arugula, teen arugula, regular arugula, spicy mix, sweet mix, lettuce heads; italian and holy basils, lemongrass, garlic chives; papaya, local honey, and homemade Sweetface chocolates! Come dance in puddles with us!