Blackcurrants in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

Our lead grower Mark Norman is continuing to share the crops he cultivates on on his own smallholding just outside Bodmin when he’s not working for us on our main site at Treraven Farm,Wadebridge.

What’s in all the boxes this week:
*blackcurrants
*mixed salad leaves
*cucumber
*calabrese (CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*spring onions (CSA / Mark Norman)
*courgettes (Mark Norman)
early potatoes ‘Accord’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

More of those delicious radishes in our veg boxes

Our growers are racing to get thousands of seeds sown, seedlings pricked out and veg planted out in the polytunnels and in outdoor beds on both our sites. In the meantime they’re managing to find ways of filling our weekly veg boxes during the ‘hungry gap‘. This week’s leeks are from Mark Norman, our lead grower, who has his own smallholding just outside Bodmin.

What’s in all the boxes this week:
*bunch of radishes
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
*purple sprouting broccoli or cauliflower
*Parisian carrots
*leeks (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard boxes also have:-
*mixed salad leaves
*spinach bunch
extra onions (Restharrow)

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

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Camel CSA’s sustainable veg packed in fairtrade bags

We use fairtrade bags from GoJute in St Austell to transport our veggies and we’re proud to support Fairtrade Fortnight 2020.

In the veg boxes this week:
*purple-sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA or Total Produce, Bodmin)
*sprouted mung beans
*kale – curly or Red Russian
leeks (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
parsnips (Restharrow)
onions (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Treesmill)

Standard boxes also have:
*spring cabbage
*flat-leaved parsley
*beetroot

* = grown to organic principles

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

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Leafy salad mix in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

The longer days at the end of such a dreary winter are really encouraging our polytunnel crops to put on extra growth. The salad leaves in particular have put on a welcome spurt, meaning there’s enough for everyone to have a share this week.

In all the veg boxes:-
*mixed winter salad leaves
*sprouted mung beans
tub of sea salt (Cornish Sea Salt Co)
leeks (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Restharrow)
parsnips (Restharrow)
onions (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard boxes also have:-
*spring onions
*chard

Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless otherwise stated

* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

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Succulent spring greens in this week’s share of the harvest

In all the veg boxes:-
*sprouted mung beans
*onions
beetroot (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
leeks (Restharrow)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
can of British-grown fava beans (Hodmedod’s)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Neeps for Burns Night in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

It’s become a tradition at Camel CSA to make sure all our members have a neep in their veg box for supper on Burns Night. Also this week we all have a jar of our very own crab apple and chilli jelly.

In all the veg boxes:-
*kale –  ‘Red Russian‘
*sprouted mung beans
*onions
*jar of crab apple and chilli jelly
cauliflower (Total Produce, Bodmin)
swede (Total Produce)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Season’s greetings from Camel CSA

Season’s greetings to all our awesome members, volunteers and supporters from Camel CSA’s growers Mark, Bridget and Jane M + regular Friday volunteers Charlotte, Fiona, Jane I, Janet and Venetia.

Look what’s in our bumper Christmas veg boxes thanks to our picking and packing team.

In all the Christmas veg boxes:- *Crown Prince squash, *Parisian carrots, *chillies, *parsley, *bay leaves, *garlic, *parsnips, *leeks + Brussels sprout stalk (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick) + Wilja potatoes  (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery) + our own green tomato chutney and a jar of Cornish honey from the James family in Bodmin.

Standard Christmas boxes also have:- *mixed salad leaves, *spring onions + red cabbage (Restharrow)

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

Uchiki Kuri squash in Camel CSA’s Cornish veg boxes

We’ve now reached the time of year when we start buying in veg again from other local growers. The proportion varies from week to week, depending on what’s available on our two sites.

Mark Norman leads Camel CSA’s growing team and also supplies us with veg grown to organic principles from his own smallholding in Bodmin. The Hore family at Restharrow Farm on the Camel Estuary supply us with additional brassicas and root vegetables up to the end of spring. They don’t grow organically, but we have full confidence in their traditional growing methods.

Surprisingly, there are no wholesale suppliers of organic vegetables grown in Cornwall. When we asked our members they told us they’d rather we bought in veg cultivated locally by people we know than organic veg grown outside the county (or even the UK) and transported long distances.

In all the veg boxes:-
*squash ‘Uchiki Kuri’ (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*kale – curly
*onions
*leeks (Mark)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
parsnips (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard boxes also have:-
*peppers – green
*cabbage ‘Tundra’
*turnips

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

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Celery and fennel in our veg boxes from Cornwall

Seasonal Cornish veg in this week’s boxes

Including – some will be pleased to hear – the last of the season’s jerusalem artichokes …

Small boxes will have:
potatoes (Benbole Farm)
* parsnips (Mark Norman)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
curly kale (Restharrow Farm)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm)
* jerusalem artichokes (Camel CSA)

Standard boxes will have the same including extra potatoes and onions plus
carrots (Restharrow Farm)
swede (Restharrow Farm)
* leeks (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)

* = grown to organic principles