Beautiful spring produce in our veg boxes

Our volunteer picking and packing team made quick work of harvesting the spinach on Friday.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*spring greens
*’Little Gem’ lettuces
*broad beans or spring onions
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
asparagus (Tregassow Farm, St Erme)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*spinach
*radishes
*dried olive green lentils (Hodmedod’s)

*  = grown to organic principles

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

Crisp crunchy radishes in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

We’re justifiably proud of our teamwork! These ‘Cherry Belle’ radishes were lovingly cultivated by the growing gang and  harvested by our squad of pickers and packers.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*radishes
*mixed salad leaves
*carrots (Organic North)
*beetroot (Organic North)
asparagus (Tregassow Farm, St Erme)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*broad beans
*Swiss chard
can of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)

*  = grown to organic principles

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

First of the broad beans in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

Standard boxes have the very first of the broad beans from the polytunnels and we look forward to plenty more in the weeks to come. We also have another ‘hungry gap’ special – yellow oyster mushrooms  from Forest Fungi in Devon.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*spring greens
*radishes
*mixed salad leaves
*bay leaves
*yellow oyster mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*broad beans or rhubarb
*mung bean sprouts
leeks (Trerair)

*  = grown to organic principles

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

Broad bean tops in our veg boxes

All standard boxes have a delicious treat this week – broad bean tops! The tender leafy tops are delicious eaten raw in salads, steamed lightly or sauteed. They’re a great addition to pasta, frittata or quiche.

Broad bean plants are prone to attack from blackfly when they mature, but pinching out the non-flowering tops of the young plants ensures these pests are discouraged.

As the ‘hungry gap’ continues, we’ve also got beautiful Cornish cauliflowers from Trerair Farm in the boxes as well as organic British-grown dried lentils and canned carlin peas from Hodmedod’s.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*spring onions
*mixed salad leaves
*Shiitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
*dried olive green lentils (Hodmedod’s)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*broad bean tops
*can of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)
swede (Trerair)

*  = grown to organic principles

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

Lots of green leaves in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

It’s a hive of activity on our site at Treraven Farm at this time of year. Our growers and volunteers are busy preparing indoor and outdoor veg beds and sowing or planting lots of salad leaves, ‘Little Gem’ lettuces, spring cabbage, peas, beetroot, spinach, spring onions, calabrese, turnip, radishes and carrots.

A total of 15 potato beds have been planted up with first and second earlies and dressed with our own lovely compost made from a mixture of green waste and woodchip.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*Swiss chard or perpetual spinach
*mixed salad leaves
*coriander
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
leeks (Trerair)
can of fava beans (Hodmedod’s)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*purple sprouting broccoli  or Red Russian kale
*radishes
*sprouted mung beans

*  = grown to organic principles

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

Veg boxes maintain variety during hungry gap

We’re now entering the hungry gap – that time of year when overwintered crops like onions, kale and sprouting broccoli are ending and the new season’s vegetables aren’t yet ready to harvest. Fortunately some of our polytunnel-grown ‘catch crops’ like radishes and spring onions are ready.

Our expert growers and volunteers are working hard to ensure that the veg boxes remain full of good quality vegetables cultivated by us and other carefully-selected  Cornish producers. That means no heated greenhouse crops and absolutely no imports!

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*rainbow chard
*rhubarb
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
swede (Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*mixed salad leaves
*radishes
*kale – Red Russian

*  = grown to organic principles

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

Radishes and rhubarb in our veg boxes

It’s so exciting to have new-season radishes and the first of the rhubarb in our veg shares this week. The outside temperatures may have reached rock bottom suddenly, but our early spring crops are determined to keep going.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*radishes
*rhubarb
*mixed salad leaves
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*kale – Red Russian or Cottagers
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*sprouted mung beans
*Shiitake mushrooms – double item (Forest Fungi, Devon)

*  = grown to organic principles

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

Coriander in Camel CSA’s weekly veg box shares

So much to do! The polytunnel crops keep us going while we get on with the spring sowing and planting.

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*mixed salad leaves or oriental stirfry leaves
*coriander
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
Romanesco cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*sprouted alfalfa seeds
*parsnips or beetroot (Tamm Field Farm, Grampound)
*British-grown olive green lentils (Hodmedod’s)

*  = grown to organic principles

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

Wild garlic leaves in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*radishes
*leeks
*mixed salad leaves or oriental stirfry leaves
*savoy cabbage (Camel CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
*swede (CSA / Trerair)
*can of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly

Salad leaves in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

Spring is on the way and our polytunnel-grown salad leaves are making enormous growth spurts.

Thank goodness also for purple sprouting broccoli at this time of year. It’s a real favourite among all of us. Our own broccoli is still recovering from the hammering it received from Storms Eunice and Franklin, so this week’s offering is is a mix of ours and from the Backway family at Trerair Farm, St Eval.

In all the veg boxes:-
*mixed salad leaves
*kale – curly or Cottagers
*parsnips
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
onions or leeks (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)

Standard veg boxes also have:-
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*mung bean sprouts
*daikon (mooli)

*  = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly