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

White sprouting broccoli in this week’s veg boxes

White sprouting broccoli is just one of the seasonal brassicas in our boxes this week.

Everyone will have:
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
carrots (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
onions (Rest Harrow Farm)
white sprouting broccoli (Rest Harrow Farm)
spring greens (Rest Harrow Farm)
parsnip (Rest Harrow Farm)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)

Standard boxes will have larger quantities of some of the above, plus:
savoy cabbage (Rest Harrow Farm)
swede (Rest Harrow Farm)
kale (Rest Harrow Farm)

And large boxes will also have:
white cabbage (Rest Harrow Farm)
* pak choi (Jeremy Brown)

* = grown to organic principles

Fresh salad leaves this week

This week’s veg boxes will contain:

potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
onions (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
carrots (Rest Harrow Farm)
* parsnips (Camel CSA/Jeremy Brown)
* salad bag (Jeremy)
cauliflower (Rest Harrow Farm)

Standard boxes will have larger quantities of some of the above, plus:
spring greens (Rest Harrow Farm)
curly kale (Rest Harrow Farm)
red cabbage (Rest Harrow Farm)

Large boxes will also have:
* pak choi (Jeremy)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)