Wild garlic leaves in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*radishes
*leeks
*mixed salad leaves or oriental stirfry leaves
*savoy cabbage (Camel CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
*swede (CSA / Trerair)
*can of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

Salad leaves in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

Spring is on the way and our polytunnel-grown salad leaves are making enormous growth spurts.

Thank goodness also for purple sprouting broccoli at this time of year. It’s a real favourite among all of us. Our own broccoli is still recovering from the hammering it received from Storms Eunice and Franklin, so this week’s offering is is a mix of ours and from the Backway family at Trerair Farm, St Eval.

In all the veg boxes:-
*mixed salad leaves
*kale – curly or Cottagers
*parsnips
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
onions or leeks (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*mung bean sprouts
*daikon (mooli)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

CSA farms get together at regional gathering in Cornwall

We had a brilliant day connecting, learning and sharing about all aspects of food growing at the CSA Network UK gathering in Cornwall.

Big thanks to hosts Soul Farm and fellow participants Goonown Growers, Bosavern Community Farm, Tamm Field Farm, Community Roots Cornwall, and Lazy Meadow Vegan Farm.

Gourmet mushrooms in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

We get very creative with our veg boxes at the end of winter as we cast our net wider to source additional seasonal vegetables. For the first time in our veg shares we have gourmet organic mushrooms from Forest Fungi in Devon.

In all the veg boxes:-
*curly kale
*mung bean sprouts
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
*mixed mushrooms – Shiitake, Grey Oyster, King Oyster (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
leeks (Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*mixed oriental stir fry leaves
*parsnips
*dried olive green lentils (Hodmedod’s)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

Weekly veg box routine continues after the storms

Camel CSA’s picking and packing team put together some spectacular veg boxes for us this week.

In all the veg boxes:-
*red Russian kale or *purple sprouting broccoli
*coriander
*mung bean sprouts
leeks (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
swede (Trerair)
cauliflower (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*chard
*can of fava beans (Hodmedod’s)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

Storms disrupt our weekly veg box deliveries

In all the veg boxes:-
*sprouting cavolo nero
*leeks
*Jerusalem artichokes
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
*purple sprouting broccoli (Camel CSA) or kalettes (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*mixed salad leaves
*chard
squash *Crown Prince (Camel CSA) or Harlequin (Restharrow)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

Diverse winter crops in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

What a difference the increasing light levels make to our overwintering vegetable crops at this time of year!

In all the veg boxes this week:-
*oriental stirfry mix or salad leaves
*sprouting cavolo nero or *purple sprouting broccoli
*celeriac
*onions
*jar of chilli and crab apple jelly or jar of blackberry jelly
leeks (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*carrots
beetroot (Restharrow)
*purple sprouting broccoli (Restharrow)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

Winter variety in our weekly veg boxes

In all the boxes this week:-
*kalettes or purple sprouting broccoli
*onions
swede (*Camel CSA / (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
red cabbage (Trerair)
can of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*pakchoi
*leeks
*parsnips (Camel CSA /  Mark Norman, Bodmin

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

Kalettes in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes

We have such stupendous kalette stalks in our veg boxes this week from Restharrow Farm at Trebetherick.  Kalettes are a hybrid of Brussels sprouts and kale.

In all the weekly veg boxes:-
*beetroot
*Jerusalem artichokes
*sprouted alfalfa seeds
*onions
kalettes (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*daikon (mooli)
*oriental stir fry mix or lettuce salad mix
leeks (Restharrow)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

Frozen! Heavy frost creates winter wonderlamd

All our vegetables – both indoors and out – were frozen into the ground on picking and packing day. That’s unusual for North Cornwall! So NO salad leaves in the veg boxes this week. Fortunately we’d got most of the harvesting done earlier.

In all the weekly veg boxes:-
*cabbage
*leeks
*celeriac
jar of homemade apple chutney
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
Brussels sprouts (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*carrots
*onions

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly