Seasonal goodies in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

We had some welcome extra volunteer help with the harvesting this week.

What’s in everyone’s veg share:
*red or green pepper
*tomatoes
*cucumber
*aubergine 
*beetroot
*onions – red or white
*apples – ‘Tregonna King’ or ‘Bramley’s Seedling’ (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Pickers and packers battle with Storm Alex

The show always goes on despite the wind and rain. Growers and volunteers on our picking and packing team battled on in Storm Alex as they harvested for the veg boxes on Friday.

What’s in everyone’s veg share this week:
*spring onions
*tomatoes
*cucumber
*aubergine or courgettes or sweet pepper
*red Russian kale
*French beans or runner beans
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

We’ve completed our move to Treraven Farm

Our community veg growing scheme has moved but it’s not gone far! On Friday we had our last ever picking and packing session at St Kew Highway, where we’ve been based for the past 12 years. Our entire growing operation has now relocated to Treraven Farm on the other side of Wadebridge.

What’s in everyone’s veg share this week:
*tomatoes
*aubergine
*cucumber
*red onions
*mixed chard
*basil (bonus item)
*celery (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

So many tomatoes to share out in the veg boxes

What’s in everyone’s veg share:
*tomatoes
*aubergine
*mixed salad leaves
*beetroot
*curly kale
*cucumber (CSA) or courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Another bumper harvest in this week’s veg boxes

What’s in everyone’s veg share this week:
*spring onions
*tomatoes
*aubergine
*cavolo nero (black Tuscan kale)
*cucumber
*sweetcorn (CSA) or courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Yellow French beans in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

Such a wonderful share of the harvest for our CSA members this week! We have yellow French beans and tomatoes as well as the first of the runner beans and green peppers. Our lead grower Mark Norman is continuing to supply us with courgettes from his own no-dig smallholding just outside Bodmin.

What’s in all the boxes:
*French beans ‘Orinoco’
*cucumbers
*rainbow chard
*red Russian kale
*calabrese or beetroot
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes ‘Marfona’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Lucky dip in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes

The unusual climate conditions in the UK during May have confused every living creature and plant – including our vegetables. Polytunnel crops have had to cope with the sunniest May on record (and one of the warmest) while outdoor crops have suffered from the severe lack of rain that followed the wettest February. Some of our vegetables have been held back, others have put on unexpected growth spurts.

It’s proving extremely challenging for our growers. So we have a lot of ‘lucky dips’ (either / or) in the weekly share-out to ensure zero waste. All we can say: we hope it adds excitement to veg box Friday!

What’s in all the boxes this week:
*peas or broad beans
*mixed salad leaves
*green onions or spring onions 
*cabbage or calabrese (CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
strawberries (Mitchell Fruit Garden)
tin of British red haricot beans (Hodmedod’s)
*new potatoes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)

Standard boxes also have:-
*courgettes or cucumber or parsley
*carrots or beetroot or rainbow chard
*wet green garlic (Mark Norman)

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

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Peas or broad beans in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

There’s so much to much to harvest and share out at the moment. We’re so grateful to our volunteer picking and packing team.

Once again in the veg boxes we have some vegetables grown exclusively for us by our lead grower Mark Norman on his own smallholding outside Bodmin.

What’s in all the boxes this week:
*peas or broad beans
*mixed salad leaves
*turnips or chard
*kohlrabi or spring onions or beetroot
*spring greens (CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*wet green garlic (Mark Norman)
*new potatoes ‘Rocket’ (Mark Norman, Bodmin)

Standard boxes also have:-
*carrots
*gooseberries
*wet green elephant garlic (Ann Smith, Burlawn)

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

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What’s in our weekly veg boxes?

What’s in all the boxes this week:
*mixed salad leaves
*parsley
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
rhubarb (Mitchell Fruit Garden)
asparagus bunch (St Enodoc Asparagus)
maincrop potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard boxes also have:-
*broad beans or spring cabbage or radishes or chard
*tin of black carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)
*onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)

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

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First of the new potatoes in our weekly veg boxes

It may be the ‘hungry gap‘ for seasonal produce in the UK but our Cornish veg boxes are still full of spring goodies. We have the first of our early potatoes this week plus more St Enodoc Asparagus.

What’s in all the boxes this week:
*new potatoes ‘Rocket’
*mixed salad leaves
*spring cabbage
asparagus bunch (St Enodoc Asparagus)
dried split peas (Hodmedod’s)
maincrop potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard boxes also have:-
*broad beans
*Swiss chard
*onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)

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

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