Camel CSA hosts the team from Newquay Orchard

We had a brilliant fact-finding visit from the growing gang at Newquay Orchard, who are setting up a new community supported agriculture scheme. Like all best guests they helped us with the harvesting.

In all the veg boxes:-
*curly kale
*carrots
*onions
*Jerusalem artichokes
*dried cannellini beans (Camel CSA) or dried olive green lentils ((Hodmedod’s)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard boxes also have:-
*elephant garlic
*calabrese or daikon or turnips or mixed salad leaves
cauliflower (Restharrow)

Golden Nugget squash in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

In all the veg boxes:-
*tomatoes
*basil
*cucumbers
*cavolo nero (black Tuscan kale)
*beetroot
*French beans or runner beans
*potatoes ‘Estima’

Rainbow chard in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

What’s in all the veg boxes: –
*rainbow chard or *sprouted fenugreek seeds
*broad beans or *calabrese
*mixed salad leaves
*new-season white turnips or *baby beetroot
asparagus (Tregassow Farm, St Erme)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard boxes also have:-
*spring onions
*parsley
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)

*= grown to organic principles.
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise

Please wash all produce thoroughly.

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Spring is coming as we harvest the late winter vegetables

Standard boxes also have:-
*mixed winter salad leaves
*kalettes or purple sprouting broccoli
onions (Restharrow)

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

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Happy new year from Camel CSA!

Happy new year to all our members and friends! Our wonderful pickers and packers braved hail storms to fill the first veg boxes in 2021.

What’s in all the veg boxes: –
*squash ‘Uchiki Kuri’
*cavolo nero
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
*jar of chilli crab apple jelly
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
onions (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard boxes also have:-
*leeks
*swede
*green coriander

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

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Picking and packing team work in icy temperatures

Grower Bridget and volunteers Alex and Charlotte battled a strong northerly wind to harvest the Red Russian kale.

What’s in everyone’s weekly veg share:
*Red Russian kale
*coriander or mixed salad leaves
*kalettes
*sprouted mung beans
leeks (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
romanesco cauliflower (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg shares also have:
*carrots
*onions
*red cabbage (Restharrow)

*= grown to organic principles

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

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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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