Browsing among the sights and smells of fresh produce at a farmers market is such joy—even more so in Denmark.

Folks from all over the globe harvested fish and produce Wednesday at UVI’s Agricultural Experiment Station.

With the suggestion and encouragement from fellow St. Thomas farmer Al Wade, Jr., I set my sights on attending the St. Croix Ag Fest for the very first time.

The vagaries of farming are many and never ending. While lack of access to water was previously a problem, Otto and Tomas showed us the havoc wrought by excess rains.

After two years of ups and downs, Precious Produce Farms is finally beginning to come to life in Dorothea.

Pests are the bane of farmers and gardeners and often we don’t know that we’re being bugged until it is too late to save our plants from total destruction.

High up in the Tutu hills in St. Thomas and overlooking a steep drop to the roadway below is a small clearing adjacent to the basketball court. On this particular Saturday I stopped by just as Kit Freeman was overseeing a small band of young gardeners.

This week Source columnist June Archibald looks deep into the richness of "black gold" ---- organic compost.

The Source is proud to present a new colum about V.I. farming and produce entitled "June's View ... From the Farm." Written by St. Thomas famer June Archibald, the new column will provide an inside glimpse of the rewards and challenges faced by our territory's farming community ... and perhaps provide some helpful advice for garden and farming enthusiasts.

The great thing about St. Thomas is you can grow food stuff all year long. The bad thing is, the soil sucks.