In case you missed our wacky Avis ad in today’s paper, there are many shades O’Green at the MacARTfarm this morning! Open 10-12! Sweet mix, spicy mix, arugula, endive, carrots, onions, kale, broccoli, broccoli greens, collards, dandelion greens, Italian basil, dill, cilantro, parsley, garlic chives, mint, lemongrass, thyme, sage, rosemary, mustard greens, Chinese cabbage, ginger, figs, sweet potato greens, slicing tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, lots of figs, eggs, bread by that lovely Irish lass Tess. 
Gray + Blue Makes Green. ARTfarm Wednesday, 3–6 p.m.
Today’s Wednesday farmstand: sweet salad mix, teen spicy salad mix, teen arugula, lettuce mixed heads, wild bunched arugula, red mustard greens, Chinese cabbage, broccoli greens, kale, collards, Italian basil, Thai basil. In the department of edible things we grow that are not primarily green and leafy, we have lots and lots of beautiful heirloom, cherry, bicolor and slicer tomatoes, onions, passionfruit, key limes, and fresh Mediterranean figs.
Here is your Wednesday art moment. In design school, Luca and Christina spent a lot of time making color wheels and studying how to match precise shades and tints of colors. This may be the one area in which our design education did not ready us for farming. In this industry, a combination of blue and gray (torrential rain earlier this week) equals green, green, green: giant lettuce heads.
ARTfarm Q&A Monday with Farmer Luca! Open 3–6, Rain or Shine!
Q: Are Jack Spaniards (aka yellowjackets, paper wasps) good?
A: They are. They eat caterpillars off of our tomato and lettuce plants. So we consider them a “beneficial” insect, along with praying mantises, honeybees, ladybugs and lacewings. Jacks do deliver a nasty sting, but only when their nest is disturbed. As long as their nest is not in a high-traffic area, we let them stay. These beneficials do the work of insecticides, so that we don’t need to spray chemicals on our plants and soil.
Monday’s harvest: Sweet salad mix, spicy salad mix, microgreens, cooking greens, cilantro, carrots, radishes, lots of tomatoes in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes by the pound, cherry tomatoes by the pint, vegan ice cream. 
ARTfarm “Know Your Farmer” Monday…and Introducing New Tomato!
Lots of goodies today, including a new kind of tomato; but first, your Q and A:
Q: Farmer Luca, why do you have so many sizes of lettuce? There’s micro, baby, teen and regular. What gives?
A: We harvest our greens at different ages, several times a week. The youngest greens, micro and baby, are only a couple of weeks old with tiny leaves, and are tender and mild in flavor (some customers say with concentrated nutritional value). They take up more garden space than mature lettuce for the amount harvested, and require more gentle handling in harvesting and processing. Microgreens can only be cut once, but baby greens can be harvested a few times from the same planting.
Teen greens are at a growth stage between baby and mature size, so they are priced in the middle. Teen greens, like baby, can be cut more than one time per planting.
Mature lettuces require the most weeding and watering, and they also produce the most harvestable material per foot of garden bed. Like the microgreens, they can only be harvested once. Harvested at about six weeks old, the flavor of mature lettuce can shift on a continuum from sweet to bitter through the season as weather conditions change in the garden.
We offer all these different sizes because it’s fun to have choices. One size does not fit all! Variety is a delight to the eye and to all the senses.
And that is probably more than you ever wanted to know about the sizes of ARTfarm salad greens. 
Today’s ARTfarm Monday, 3–6 p.m.: Sweet salad mix, baby arugula, baby spicy salad mix, cooking greens, sweet bell peppers, lots of fresh award-winning carrots, cherry tomatoes, large tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, ***NEW!!!*** BI-COLOR TOMATOES***, cilantro, parsley, chili peppers, fresh Mediterranean figs, ice cream from I-Sha!
ARTfarm on St. Croix, USVI 