Cycle power gets Camel CSA’s veg from field to fork

They never cease to amaze! Our cargo bike couriers Damo and Mike of Pedal My Cargo stacked 35 vegetable boxes on their trailers for delivery around Wadebridge on Friday.

In all this week’s veg shares:-
*summer beetroot – ‘Chioggia’ / ‘Golden Boldor’
*parsley
*new potatoes – ‘Kestrel’
*spring onions
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
sprouting broccoli (Trerair)
strawberries ((Mitchell Fruit Garden)

Standard veg shares also have:-
*French beans
*cucumber or *courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*rainbow chard or *peas in pod

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

We’re pioneering e-cargo bike veg box deliveries

It’s official – we’re the only business in Cornwall making regular use of an electric cargo bike for home deliveries. We’ve achieved this in partnership with bicycle couriers Mike Boucher and Damian Cudmore of Pedal My Cargo in Wadebridge. They deliver more than 30 veg boxes for us every Friday.

We continue to use an electric van for the remainder of our deliveries to pick-up points and homes in and around St Teath, Delabole, Port Isaac, Polzeath, St Minver, St Tudy, St Breward, St Mabyn and Bodmin.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*broad beans or *rhubarb
*calabrese
*spring greens
*mixed salad leaves
*green onion(s)
*purple-topped turnips
*new potatoes ‘Casablanca’ (Mark Norman, Bodmin)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*calabrese or *carrots
*garlic scapes
can of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)

*  = grown to organic principles

Please wash all produce thoroughly.
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise

New e-cargo bike for Camel CSA veg box deliveries

Pedalling up those pesky hills in our home town of Wadebridge, Cornwall has suddenly got easier. Bicycle courier Mike Boucher of Pedal My Cargo and Wadebridge Coasters Cycling Club is the proud new owner of an electric cargo bike for delivering our veg boxes.

Listen to us on BBC Radio Cornwall

LISTEN to what Jack Murley of BBC Radio Cornwall found out when he visited us at Treraven Farm.

Growers Mark and Bridget and volunteer Steve chat about the eco-friendly ways we grow our veggies and deliver them to 80 local households. Bicycle couriers Damo and Mike of Pedal My Cargo and Wadebridge Coasters Cycling Club describe how they do the veg box deliveries in Wadebridge.

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Savoy cabbage and kalettes in the weekly veg boxes

Standard boxes also have:-
*spring onions
*squash ‘Crown Prince’
swede (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)

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

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