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Volunteers show ready and willing on Open Farm Sunday
Posted on June 21st, 2012 No commentsIt always helps to have lots of people on our community veg plot. So we took the opportunity to plant out squash and pumpkin seedlings and to dig up more dock weeds on Open Farm Sunday.
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Peas… peas… please visit us on Open Farm Sunday!
Posted on June 15th, 2012 No commentsEnter our slug spotting competition, take part in the National Farm Pollinator Survey, and help us plant hundreds of squash and pumpkin seedlings this Sunday on our plot at St Kew Highway.
Photo: Shayne and Lucia House
There’ll be guided tours of our Big Lottery-funded vegetable plot and polytunnels. Also family fun and children’s activities, a veg box raffle, cold drinks and home-made cakes.
Entry is free to our Open Farm Sunday event this Sunday 17 June from 1.30-4.30pm – rain or shine.
Come and see: -
• What vegetables we’re growing
• What’s in our weekly vegetable boxes
• How we support other local growers
• How we promote local, seasonal foodYou can find us on the A39 near Wadebridge at the St Endellion / St Mabyn crossroads, behind St Kew Harvest farm shop at St Kew Highway.
- AND even if the sun’s shining bring your wellies!
- AND even if the sun’s shining bring your wellies!
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Mangetout peas in our veg boxes for Open Farm Sunday
Posted on June 14th, 2012 No commentsCamel CSA’s veg boxes contain a typical mix of freshly-picked, seasonal vegetables this week. Some were cultivated on our own plot at St Kew Highway and some were supplied by other Cornish growers.
All the veg boxes will have: -
potatoes (Growfair)
* broad beans (Camel CSA)
* baby carrots (Camel CSA)
* spring onions (Camel CSA)
* mixed salad bag (Camel CSA)
* Swiss chard (Camel CSA)Standard boxes will also have: -
extra potatoes
strawberries (Growfair)
* coriander (Camel CSA)
* mange tout peas (Camel CSA)
tomato marmalade (made by Camel CSA member Henrietta Danvers)* = grown to organic principles
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Come and see what we’re growing on Open Farm Sunday
Posted on June 10th, 2012 No commentsLove local food? Like to eat fresh, seasonal local vegetables? Come and visit our Big Lottery-funded project on Open Farm Sunday - this Sunday 17 June from 1.30-4.30pm.
Come and see: -
• What vegetables we’re growing
• What’s in our weekly vegetable boxes
• How we support other local growers
• How we promote local, seasonal foodThere’ll be family fun and games, guided tours, vegetable box raffle, home-made cakes, cold drinks.
Find us on the A39 at St Kew Highway beside the St Endellion / St Mabyn crossroads, behind St Kew Harvest Farm Shop. Look out for the signs.
- Watch these short videos to get a quick taste of what we do
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Open Farm Sunday – come and join us
Posted on June 11th, 2010 No commentsWe’re celebrating Open Farm Sunday at Camel Community Supported Agriculture AND St Kew Harvest Farm Shop in north Cornwall this Sunday 13 June 12.30 – 5pm.
This is a joint event aimed at promoting locally-grown food and produce. We’re neighbours, so come and find us behind St Kew Harvest Farm Shop beside the A39 at St Kew Highway near Wadebridge.
Join in family fun & games, guided tours, nature quiz, vegetable box raffle. Refreshments include a home-reared hog roast, veggie BBQ, home-made cakes, hot & cold drinks.
Camel Community Supported Agriculture is a co-operative group. We grow fresh, seasonal vegetables for our members to share through our weekly veg box scheme.
At St Kew Harvest Farm they cultivate their own fruit and vegetables without any chemicals or pesticides in the fields next to the shop. They also raise their own free-range Gloucester Old Spot pigs.
Join in the fun and games
12:30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
13:30 Tai Chi for kids / tomato toss, bull’s eye, Mr Potato Heads
14:30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
15:30 Tai Chi for kids / tomato toss, bull’s eye, Mr Potato Heads
16.30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
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Join in the fun and games on Open Farm Sunday
Posted on June 10th, 2010 No comments
There’s lots of things to see and do this Sunday beside our plot at St Kew Highway. Join in the fun and games with us and our neighbours St Kew Harvest Farm Shop on Open Farm Sunday.Refreshments include a free-range home-reared hog roast, hot & cold drinks and home-made cake.
Everyone welcome. See you there!
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Visit us on Open Farm Sunday
Posted on June 7th, 2010 No commentsCome and see what we do to promote local food this Sunday 13 June. Join us in lots of food-related fun and games - including a hog roast – on our site at St Kew Highway.
Camel Community Supported Agriculture members are holding this Open Farm Sunday event jointly with our neighbours Jeremy and Antonina Brown who run St Kew Harvest Farm Shop & Tea Rooms.We rent our two acres of land from the Brown family and Jeremy is one of Camel CSA’s three expert growers.
Do come along any time between 12.30 and 5pm. You’ll find us behind St Kew Harvest Farm Shop beside the A39 at St Kew Highway near Wadebridge.
There’ll be family activities, guided tours, nature quiz and vegetable box raffle. Delicious refreshments include a St Kew Harvest free-range hog roast, veggie barbeque, home-made cakes plus hot and cold drinks.
Join in the fun & games
12:30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
13:30 Tai Chi for kids / tomato toss, bull’s eye, Mr Potato Heads
14:30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
15:30 Tai Chi for kids / tomato toss, bull’s eye, Mr Potato Heads
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Come and see us on Open Farm Sunday
Posted on May 30th, 2010 No commentsWhy not come and see what we’re doing at Camel CSA? We’re taking part in Open Farm Sunday on June 13. There’ll be lots of things to see and do - guided tours, children’s fun and games, nature activities, veg box raffle and homemade refreshments. Including a hog roast!
We’re holding this event in conjunction with our neighbours St Kew Harvest Farm Shop & Tea Rooms.
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A warm and open welcome
Posted on June 10th, 2009 No commentsAround 60 adults and 20 children joined in the fun at Camel Community Supported Agriculture’s first Open Day and were rewarded with glorious sunshine and not a hint of rain .
Visitors ignored the threatening storm clouds and came out in their droves on Open Farm Sunday to see our vegetable growing project in north Cornwall.
They built bee nests, joined guided tours, planted lettuces and nasturtiums, made scarecrows, watched a sheep shearing demonstration, sat chatting in the sun and played on hay and straw bales.
Assorted individuals, couples and families travelled from a 30-mile radius to give us some constructive feedback on our efforts to make local food work: -Fantastic project. Amazing! Brilliant!
An excellent idea – keep it going
Great for the whole family. Liked the things for children to do
Lovely, interesting day – will come again
Loved the tour – very inspiring
Learned a lot about not needing to dig. Hurrah – compost!
Need to encourage more people to learn where food comes from and to eat seasonally
Excellent initiative – more farm events would be great
We provided a barbeque, home-made-cakes and cold drinks. Hot drinks and cream teas were available at the farm shop.
In scenes reminiscent of Eric Carle’s children’s classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, our guests and helpers munched their way through a shoulder of organic moorland mutton, a mound of sausages, beefburgers, veggie burgers and vegetable kebabs, several bowls of homegrown salad leaves, radishes and spring onions, 8 slices of rhubarb loaf, 10 rhubarb muffins, 12 slices of coconut sponge, 16 chocolate buns, 24 pieces of lemon drizzle cake, 30 iced cupcakes, 40 flapjacks…And the verdict among Camel CSA members?
A job very well done! We are so lucky to have a group of such enthusiastic, committed, capable, lovely people
I think we have all pulled together really well
We have managed to spread the word to so many people and explain what we’re doing and why we’re doing it
It was so lovely to see it all coming together and the atmosphere it created
Most of all we have been able to show that we are a “community” working together
We can’t wait to be part of this again!
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We’re in the news – again
Posted on June 9th, 2009 No comments
Camel Community Supported Agriculture members succeeded in spreading the word far and wide at the Royal Cornwall Show and the open day on Open Farm Sunday. Hundreds more people in the south west now know what Camel CSA is doing to help make local food work and how we’re going about it.
Our efforts also resulted in plenty of media coverage in the past week or so - on BBC Radio Cornwall, in the Cornish Guardian and in the Western Morning News (three times!)
Discover food glorious food at the Royal Cornwall - Western Morning News May 26 09
Open day to feature county’s first community food growing group - Cornish Guardian June 2 09
Cornish food at its best – South West Farmer June 1 09
Food from Cornwall News - June 6 09
Other groups keen to set up their own community agriculture project should contact the Soil Association’s south west CSA co-ordinator Traci Lewis at tlewis@soilassociation.org or on 0787 0268654.
