Wonderful seasonal selection in our bumper festive vegetable boxes

Season’s greetings from Camel CSA! We have in all our Christmas/New Year veg boxes:-

*squash ‘Crown Prince’
chilli and crab apple jelly
*carrots
*leeks
*parsley
*onions
*parsnips (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*bay leaves (Janet Hulme, Wadebridge)
sprout stalk (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Restharrow)
Cornish honey (Eric James, Bodmin)

Pak choi in Camel CSA’s wonderful veg boxes

We have a fantastic selection of vegetables despite this week’s unusually heavy frost in Cornwall.

In all the boxes this week: –
*pak choi
*squash ‘Autumn Crown’
*winter salad bag (mizuna, red/green mustard, green/red lettuce, baby chard/leaf beet)
*turnips
*onions
*parsnips (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes – red ‘Desiree’ (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)

Standard boxes also have: –
extra potatoes
*baby leeks
*curly parsley
curly kale (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles
All produce grown by Camel CSA unless otherwise indicated. Please wash all vegetables and fruit

Try these delicious dishes on the recipes page on our website:-
Frank’s Shanghai rice (pak choi)
Hugh’s squash stuffed with leeks

Winter salad leaves in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes

We all have a big bag of freshly-picked oriental and other winter salad leaves grown in our polytunnels. All our veg are harvested the same day the boxes go out. You can’t get any fresher than that!

In all the boxes this week: –
*winter salad bag (mizuna, red/green mustard, green/red lettuce, baby chard/leaf beet)
*squash – lucky dip!
*bunch of carrots
*turnips
leeks (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Restharrow)
potatoes – white Wilja or red Desiree (Restharrow)

Standard boxes also have: –
extra potatoes
*kohlrabi
*garlic
*kale – Red Russian

* = grown to organic principles
All produce grown by Camel CSA unless otherwise indicated. Please wash all vegetables and fruit

Try these delicious leek dishes on the recipes page on our website:-
A risotto of leeks and pancetta
Leek and smoked cheddar tart

Red and yellow tomatoes in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

In our boxes this week: –

Gooseberries in our north Cornwall veg boxes

In all the boxes this week:-
*gooseberries
*carrots
*cucumbers OR yellow French beans
*green garlic
*new potatoes (Mark Norman, Bodmin / Camel CSA)
tenderstem (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Growfair Cornwall)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra new potatoes
*green onions
*courgettes (Mark Norman)
beetroot (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all vegetables and fruit. All produce grown by Camel CSA unless otherwise indicated

Try these ways with gooseberries on Camel CSA’s recipes page: –
Gooseberry crumble cake
Gooseberry sauce

Elephant garlic in our weekly vegetable boxes

We all have much sought-after elephant garlic in our veg boxes. The bulbs have been been harvested in their “green” state and should be used soon. Much milder than its smaller cousin (it’s more like a garlic-tasting leek), elephant garlic is best used raw in salads or baked.

In all the boxes:-
*elephant garlic
*bunched carrots
*radishes
*mixed herb bag – parsley, chives, oregano, mint
*new potatoes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
strawberries (Mitchell Fruit Garden)
Hispi ‘sweetheart’ cabbage ((Growfair Cornwall)

Standard boxes also have:-
*extra potatoes
*mixed lettuce bag – oak leaf, ‘Freckles’
*turnips
*spring onions

* = grown to organic principles
All produce cultivated by Camel CSA unless otherwise indicated
Please wash all vegetables and fruit

Try this recipe for roasted elephant garlic from Colin Boswell at The Garlic Farm on the Isle of Wight.

It’s time to… plant out squashes and pumpkins

We got hundreds of squash and pumpkin plants into the ground at our volunteer work morning on Sunday. Many thanks to Bob, Charlotte, Helen, Kathi, Mark M and our lead grower Mark Norman.

It’s time to… protect our newly-sown seeds from mice

Old tricks… Our growers hang seed trays in mid-air to deter the long-tailed fieldmouse.

More broad beans in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes

Our early summer crops are starting to come on nicely. We have the last of the polytunnel-grown broad beans in the boxes this week along with the first of the podded peas for a lucky few.

In all the boxes this week:-
*broad beans
*turnips
Cornish asparagus (Lower Croan, Sladesbridge)
rhubarb (Mitchell Fruit Garden)
cauliflower (Growfair, Cornwall)
potatoes (St Lawrence Farm, Bodmin)

Standard boxes also have:-
new potatoes (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
*mangetout OR podded peas
*mixed salad leaves – assorted lettuce, rocket, baby chard
*radishes

* = grown to organic principles

Please wash all vegetables and fruit. All produce grown by Camel CSA unless otherwise indicated

Try these cauliflower dishes-with-a-difference on Camel CSA’s recipes page: –
Cauliflower with saffron, pinenuts and raisins
Roasted cauliflower gigli with pine nuts and currants

Green tomato chutney in our Cornish veg boxes

We’ve all got another jar of our very own green tomato chutney in the boxes this week as there was plenty left over from Christmas.

In all our veg boxes : –
green tomato chutney
*onions
leeks (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
beetroot (Restharrow
savoy cabbage (Total Produce, Bodmin)
cauliflower (Total Produce)
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*mixed salad bag – rocket, baby chard, mizuma, golden/red mustard, lettuce
*green coriander
Jerusalem artichokes (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all vegetables and fruit.
All produce grown by Camel CSA unless otherwise indicated.

Try these beetroot bakes on Camel CSA’s recipes page: –
Beetroot seed cake
Chocolate beetroot cake