It’s time to… move our solar panels to Treraven Farm

Our friends at ZLC Energy have relocated Camel CSA’s off-grid solar energy system to our new site at Treraven Farm. Big thanks to Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network – WREN which donated the funds to move the panels and install a solar storage battery.

It’s time to… cover the second polytunnel at Treraven

It’s time to… carry on constructing the polytunnel

Brilliant work party volunteers sweated through the heat to work on our second polytunnel at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge. Enormous thanks to growers Mark and Jane plus Charlotte, Danny, Finn, Fiona, John and Venetia who dug trenches for the cover, constructed door frames and  cut the grass around the site.

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It’s time to… move a second polytunnel to Treraven Farm

It’s time to… plant out winter brassicas at Treraven Farm

Growers Mark and Jane are busy planting out hundreds of brassicas in new no dig beds on our relocation site at Treraven Farm above Wadebridge. We’re covering the crops with Enviromesh to protect them from birds and cabbage white butterflies.

First polytunnel up and running at Treraven Farm

A  gargantuan effort’s gone into completing the first polytunnel at our relocation site at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge. Lead grower Mark Norman headed a large team of volunteers who got stuck in digging trenches, constructing the frame and securing the cover.

Grateful thanks to growers Mark N, Bridget and Ann plus volunteers Andy, Becky, Bob, Charlotte, Danny, Darren, Finn, Frank, Janet, Kiefer, Mark M, Mary, Nicky, Spencer, Stepper, Stewart and Trina for a brilliant team effort.

The tunnel’s now been planted up with tomatoes and aubergines, using the lasagna method of cultivation.

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Secure equipment store installed at Treraven

It’s arrived! The shipping container we’re using as a secure equipment store at our relocation site at Treraven Farm is now in place. Over the next few weeks we’ll be planting green walls around the container to help it blend in with its natural surroundings.

It’s time to… plant a new hedge at Treraven Farm

The Monday team got stuck in on our new relocation site at Treraven Farm just outside Wadebridge.

Big thanks to growers Mark and Bridget and volunteers Bea, Charlotte, Danny, Darren, Finn, Helen and Tony.

The team put in hedgerow plants on the ‘bund’ by the car park, cleared more blackthorn and completed the rabbit-proof fence around the veg growing area.

The new hedge is full of native plants – hawthorn, spindle, guelder rose, dogwood, wild rose and hazel. And snowdrops!

Over the next 18 months we’re gradually relocating our polytunnels, growing beds, equipment store, solar panels and packing shed to the new site at Treraven from our current base at St Kew Highway.

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It’s time to… install a rabbit-proof fence at Treraven Farm

Sadly, we had to cancel last Friday’s weekly veg boxes because of the sudden heavy snow fall in Cornwall.

Now the snow’s all gone, growers Bridget and Mark can carry on building the rabbit-proof fence around our new growing site at Treraven Farm above Wadebridge.

We’ve also begun marking out our first two vegetable growing beds on our field at Treraven, which is owned by the Gaia Trust.

Over the next 18 months we’re gradually relocating our polytunnels, growing beds, equipment store, solar panels and packing shed to the new site at Treraven from our current base at St Kew Highway.

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Camel CSA takes first steps on new veg growing site at Treraven Farm

Camel CSA growers Mark and Bridget have begun marking out our first two vegetable growing beds above Wadebridge at Treraven Farm owned by the Gaia Trust.

We’re practising the No-Dig Method of organic cultivation championed by Charles Dowding. A thick layer of mulch will be applied in a few months’ time once the rye grass has died out underneath the black plastic. Then we’ll plant up the surface compost with our first winter crops – kale, purple sprouting broccoli and swede.

Over the next 18 months we’re gradually relocating our polytunnels, growing beds, equipment store, solar panels and packing shed to the new site at Treraven.

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