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Volunteer with Camel CSA and grow with us

March 24, 2024

Would you like to volunteer with us? It’s the very start of the veg growing season and there’s lots to get done!

We still have spaces for a few more people of all ages on our friendly volunteering team. Join us to grow together under the guidance of expert paid growers.

It’s an opportunity to get healthy outdoor exercise while finding out more about no-dig, nature-friendly vegetable growing.

No previous experience is necessary. Simply click here and complete the short request form.

In all the weekly veg boxes:-
*rhubarb
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*red Russian kale
*Shiitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
red cabbage (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ or ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*mixed salad leaves
*sprouted mung beans
leeks (Trerair)

First of the wild garlic in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes

March 17, 2024

Not before time! We’ve started foraging wild garlic leaves for the weekly veg shares. It’s such a welcome addition in early spring, all the more so this year.

We’re always short of our own veg leading up to the hungry gap, like all UK growers. We still have some salad leaves, parsley & chard in the polytunnels, with rhubarb, red Russian kale & some gale-battered purple broccoli outside, and elephant garlic in store. But that’s about it until the early seedlings mature.

Our much-valued growers and volunteers are working flat out as we begin the spring rush.

It’s been a rough old winter one way and another, probably the worst in Camel CSA’s 15 consecutive seasons growing veg in wet and windy north Cornwall. Saturated ground has delayed outdoor bed preparation, and for the first time ever we lost a couple of polytunnel covers in two consecutive Atlantic storms.

So a handful of wild garlic leaves and a few sticks of rhubarb in the 70 weekly boxes really do lift our spirits and tickle our tired taste buds!

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*purple sprouting broccoli or *rhubarb chard
*sprouted mung beans
leeks (*Mark Norman, Bodmin / (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
dried British chick peas (Hodmedod’s)
romanesco cauliflower (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ or ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*parsley
*mixed salad leaves
swede (Trerair)

Rhubarb season begins early at Camel CSA

March 10, 2024

The outdoor rhubarb crop is ripening earlier than normal and it’s a star feature in this week’s standard veg boxes.

The emerging stems put on an enormous growth spurt in the mild wet weather during February. We rely extensively on this perennial fruit crop in the run-up to the ‘hungry gap‘ as we come to the end of last season’s root vegetables and leafy greens.

The big challenge our growers now face is keeping the tender new rhubarb protected from sudden cold, dry, easterly winds that can hit north Cornwall in the spring. They blow straight across our site from Rough Tor, the second highest point on Bodmin Moor.

In every weekly veg box:-
*red Russian kale
*Shiitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
leeks (Trerair)
parsnips (Continental Fruits, Pensilva)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ or ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*rhubarb
*elephant garlic
*sprouted fenugreek seeds

Kalettes are back in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

March 4, 2024

We thought we’d harvested the last of the kalettes – those delicious purple-green leafy nuggets that are a cross between kale and Brussels sprouts. We were wrong!

The recent mild weather (and our custom of cutting off the tasty tops) seems to have brought them back to life, so they’re back in the weekly veg boxes. But they really are the last ones until next season.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*kalettes or *purple sprouting broccoli
*elephant garlic
*coriander
*dried olive green British lentils (Hodmedod’s)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
beetroot (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*mung bean sprouts
*mixed salad leaves
*radishes

Volunteer taster day on Saturday 2 March

February 25, 2024

Interested in volunteering with us? Want to find out more about no-dig vegetable growing?

Join our team for a tour of Camel CSA’s site at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge on Saturday 2 March 10am-12 noon. Try out some of our volunteering activities with the aid of expert veg growers. Discover what suits you best!

No need to book – simply turn up and we’ll be there to welcome you. Come dressed for the weather and wear stout shoes or boots. If you have your own gardening gloves, please bring them too.

More details about volunteering here. For directions to our growing site click here.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*kalettes or *Crown Prince squash
*elephant garlic
*can of fava beans (Hodmedod’s)
swede (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
savoy cabbage (Trerair)
parsnips (Continental Fruits, Pensilva)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ or ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*sprouted alfalfa seeds or *mung bean sprouts
*mixed salad leaves
leeks (Trerair)

Volunteers and growers work together to produce Camel CSA’s veg boxes

February 18, 2024

Meet some of our dream team of volunteers and paid workers! Our growers, pickers & packers and delivery crew are all set up for the start of the new growing season.

Camel CSA is a true community enterprise. Throughout the year we all work together to provide more than 70 local households in north Cornwall with regular weekly vegetable boxes.

In all this week’s veg shares:-
*cavolo nero kale
*Jerusalem artichokes or beetroot
*Shiitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
leeks (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*mixed salad leaves
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
*coriander


* = grown to organic principles.  Please wash all veg thoroughly  
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise 

Eat the seasons and enjoy more nutritious vegetables

February 11, 2024

Seasonal winter vegetables are anything but dull! Their glowing jewel-like colours simply leap out of our veg boxes on a dull grey day. They’re fresher, more nutritious and tastier too.

In all this week’s veg shares:-
*Crown Prince squash
*radishes or rhubarb chard
*sprouted mung beans
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
Brussels sprouts (Trerair)
Devon parsnips (Continental Fruits, Pensilva)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ or ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*elephant garlic
*mixed salad leaves
*red cabbage (Trerair)


* = grown to organic principles.  Please wash all veg thoroughly  
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise 

It’s February and Camel CSA’s new growing season begins

February 5, 2024

The snowdrops are out and spring is gradually on the way. Our growers and volunteers have started sowing vegetable seeds like radishes and pea shoots direct into the beds in the polytunnels.

Spring onions, maincrop onions and calabrese are being sown in modules in the seeding tunnel. More tender crops like tomato, aubergines, chillies and peppers are being nurtured in heated propagators

Simultaneously we’re still harvesting vegetables like red Russian kale, chard, winter salad leaves and herbs that we planted last season. Not forgetting the gigantic Crown Prince squashes stashed safely in the storage shed and in our veg boxes this week!

In all this week’s veg shares:-
*Crown Prince squash
*Red Russian kale or rhubarb chard
*Shiitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
leeks (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ or ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*celeriac
*radishes or mixed salad leaves
*coriander


* = grown to organic principles.  Please wash all veg thoroughly  
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise 

Storm Isha causes additional damage

January 28, 2024

Sadly, another polytunnel cover has been ripped off by strong winds. Storm Isha tore into Polytunnel 4 in the same way Storm Henk harmed Polytunnel 1 just three weeks ago.

It’s by far the worst storm damage Camel CSA has suffered since setting up 15 years ago. We’re all used to bad weather in north Cornwall, but there’s no denying that climate change is making these severe weather events more frequent.

We don’t give up easily! Two replacement polytunnel covers are on the way and will be installed once the winds die down and the sunshine gets warmer.

Camel CSA is fortunate to have than 70 member households who can help share both the risks and rewards that come with vegetable growing. We rely on people to step up during challenging times like these to provide practical support for our paid growers and volunteer core management team.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*Crown Prince squash
*jar of homemade preserves
savoy cabbage (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
leeks (Trerair)
Brussels sprouts (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ or ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)
Devon parsnips (Continental Fruits, Pensilva)

Standard boxes also have:
*garlic
*Jerusalem artichokes or celeriac
*beetroot (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)


* = grown to organic principles.  Please wash all veg thoroughly  
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise 

Frozen conditions delay Camel CSA harvesting team

January 21, 2024

Our veg box pickers and packers are used to all the challenges that extreme weather throws at us in north Cornwall. This week we had to wait for the kalettes to thaw before we could pick them.

The rosette-shaped leafy tops to the kalette stalks also taste divine and look so pretty (especially when frozen!) So we always include them in the vegetable boxes as well.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*kalettes + kalette tops
*Crown Prince squash
*beetroot or mooli
*Shiitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Devon)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval))
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*leeks
*sprouted mung beans
swede (Trerair)

* = grown to organic principles.  Please wash all veg thoroughly  
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise 

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