Warm sun, more daylight, loud birdsong – it must be spring!

Our growers and volunteers are making the most of the dry days to prepare for the new veg growing season. It’s all systems go on our community growing site at Treraven Farm.

This week’s tasks included:-

• transplanting and mulching the blackcurrants
  
• sowing tomato, aubergine and pepper seeds
  
• weeding and composting the outside beds
  
• harvesting lots of oriental salad leaves and the first of the indoor radishes for the veg boxes.

If you’re interested in volunteering on our friendly team, please get in touch. If you know anyone else who might be interested, please share these details with them.

In this week’s veg shares:
*radishes
*purple sprouting broccoli or curly kale
*oriental salad leaves (mizuna, frilly mustard)
*celeriac (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
*cauliflower (Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

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

Have you ever wanted to learn more about growing healthy, nutritious vegetables? Spring is only just round the corner and you’re welcome to join our volunteer team at Camel CSA.

This week we’ve been busy weeding and preparing no-dig veg beds, stripping out spent crops in the polytunnels and harvesting the last of the leeks on our nature-friendly site at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge.

Join us and you’ll learn from Melanie Broomhead, our skilled community grower. She’ll help you find out more about soil care, natural mulches and fertilisers, seed sowing and planting, compost making, crop maintenance, and harvesting techniques, from our skilled community grower.

It’s not all hard work. You’ll be rewarded with fresh clean air, an abundance of nature, good company, regular breaks, and delectable treats like homemade vegetable soup and cake!

If you’re interested in volunteering on our friendly team, please get in touch. If you know anyone else who might be interested, please share these details with them.

In this week’s veg shares:
*baby leeks
*red Russian kale
*rhubarb chard
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
*can of fava beans (Hodmedod’s)
swede (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

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

The cut-and-come-again oriental salad leaves in our polytunnels at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge, are thriving now the light levels are increasing. They’re a very valuable and welcome crop in our weekly veg boxes at this time of year.

Our volunteer pickers and packers focused on the spicy mizuna, rocket and frilly mustard leaves on veg box day while leaving the overwintered lettuce to grow a little more.

After harvesting it’s really important we weed and water the beds so the plants can produce plenty more leaves for the boxes in the weeks to come.

If you’re interested in volunteering on our friendly team, please get in touch.

In this week’s veg shares:
*oriental salad leaf mix
*sprouted mung beans
January King cabbage (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
beetroot (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
curly kale (Trerair)
parsnips – Devon (Continental Wholesale Fruits)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

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

Like to join us? Our pickers and packers harvest the vegetables and prepare the veg boxes on Thursdays and Fridays.

They volunteer for the task because they love being outdoors, enjoy teamwork, like good company, and really appreciate working with fresh, seasonal produce. (Plus the promise of homemade cake at crib time!)

It’s a job that constantly varies along with the seasons. At this time of year they’re harvesting, preparing, weighing, and sharing out the outdoor winter vegetables like kale, leeks and Jerusalem artichokes and indoor crops in the polytunnels like salad leaves, chard, parsley and coriander.

If you’re interested in taking part, please get in touch.

In this week’s veg shares:
*kale – cottager’s or curly (Camel CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*squash – Crown Prince
*coriander
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
parsnips – Devon (Continental Wholesale Fruits)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Also in the standard boxes:
*leeks
*tin of fava beans (Hodmedod’s) or jar of green tomato chutney (Camel CSA)
tenderstem – Devon (Continental)

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

That’s it till next winter! Our pickers and packers harvested the very last of the kalettes for this week’s veg boxes. Yet again we’ve enjoyed another abundant seasonal crop of this delicious nutty-tasting cross between kale and Brussels sprouts.

In this week’s veg shares:
*kalettes or *chard
*carrots
*sprouted mung beans
*turnips
tin of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)
white cabbage (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Also in the standard boxes:
*mixed salad leaves or red Russian kale
white onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
swede (Trerair)

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

Our growers and volunteers are now back and all geared up after a well-earned short festive break. Come rain or shine, we’re very proud to provide our members with seasonal, local vegetables 51 weeks of the year.

In this week’s veg shares:
*squash – ‘Crown Prince’ or ‘Jack Be Little’
*leeks
*mixed salad leaves
*parsley
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
white onions – (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Also in the standard boxes:
*leafy kalette tops
*Jerusalem artichokes
beetroot (Restharrow)

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

Nadelik Lowen! Wishing you a Merry Christmas from us all at Camel CSA.

An enormous thank you to everyone who supports us, especially our dedicated volunteers and loyal CSA members.

We’ve been making sure we have plenty of time to relax together over home bakes, mince pies and mulled apple juice.

Our growers, admin staff, delivery drivers and volunteers are now having a well-earned rest and look forward to seeing you again in the New Year.

It’s a wrap! A grand bunch of growers and volunteers got the bumper Christmas vegetable shares ready for collection and delivery on Friday from our site at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge.

As usual, it was a fantastic team effort. Thank you so much to everyone involved – all the people who turn up week in, week out in all weathers to grow and share climate-friendly veg with our local community in north Cornwall.

In all the festive veg boxes:
*carrots
*Crown Prince squash
*leeks
*bunch of fresh herbs (sage, rosemary, bay)
green tomato chutney (made by Camel CSA volunteers)
jar of Cornish honey (Wadebridge Beekeepers Association)
sprouts stalk (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
Cornish parsnips (Continental Wholesale Fruits)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have :
*elephant garlic
swede (Trerair)
golden beetroot (Continental)

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

We’re very fortunate to have a very good squash harvest this year and they’re storing well.

We grow lots of different varieties and Crown Prince has always been our first choice, with Uchiki Kuri a close second.

Now we’re wondering whether gorgeous blush pink Kabocha will become a firm favourite too!

In this week’s veg shares:
*squash – ‘Kabocha’
*leafy kalette tops
*elephant garlic
*can of fava beans (Hodmedod’s)
red cabbage (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
red onions – Cornwall (Continental Wholesale Fruits)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Also in the standard boxes:
*rhubarb chard
*beetroot
*kalettes

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

The kalettes have surpassed themselves this year. They just keep on coming. They’re a wonderful cross between kale and Brussels sprouts and are highly nutritious.

There’s a wider selection from elsewhere in this week’s veg boxes. Organic field-grown vegetables are in short supply in Cornwall. Rather than source organic vegetables from much further afield, we choose to support other trusted local suppliers

In this week’s veg shares:
*kalettes
*bean sprouts
*bay leaves
purple sprouting broccoli(Trerair Farm, St Eval)
leeks – Cornwall (Continental Wholesale Fruits)
parsnips – Devon (Continental)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Also in the standard boxes:
*coriander or salad leaves
*kale
white cabbage (Trerair)

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

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