We pick a variety of salad leaves for the veg shares nearly every week all through the winter. In early spring as the light levels improve and the days get longer the oriental leaves are left to put on more growth. Just as they start to go to seed we harvest them in large quantities and mix them to make stir fry bags.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*oriental stir fry leaf mix
*spring onions
*red Russian kale
*rhubarb or chill crab apple jelly
purple sprouting broccoli (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
romanesco cauliflower (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*mixed salad leaves
*radishes or turnips
*sprouted fenugreek seeds

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

The growing team have started spreading our own compost on the potato beds. We make vast quantities of this rich crumbly concoction every year.

A small number of volunteers work throughout the seasons to ensure enough is available. Green vegetable waste, chopped stalks, annual weeds, leafy debris, and grass clippings are mixed with brown layers of shredded cardboard, untreated wood shavings and woodchip.

Regular turning by hand introduces air, helps the raw materials to heat up, and encourages microorganisms and bacteria to complete the breakdown process.

Once it’s matured after several months, we use the fragrant dark compost to mulch and improve soil composition on the no-dig vegetable beds. It helps feed the crops, conserves moisture, deters weeds, and boosts biodiversity. The worms love it!

In a few weeks time we’ll be using even more to plant out tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and chillies in the polytunnels, and hundreds of pumpkins and squashes outdoors.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*rhubarb
*mixed salad leaves
*purple sprouting broccoli or red Russian kale
*dried olive green lentils (Hodmedod’s)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

Standard boxes also have:
*leafy oriental stirfry mix
*radishes
leeks (Trerair)

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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 

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 

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 

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