A warm and open welcome
June 10, 2009
Around 60 adults and 20 children joined in the fun at Camel Community Supported Agriculture’s first Open Day and were rewarded with glorious sunshine and not a hint of rain .
Visitors ignored the threatening storm clouds and came out in their droves on Open Farm Sunday to see our vegetable growing project in north Cornwall.
They built bee nests, joined guided tours, planted lettuces and nasturtiums, made scarecrows, watched a sheep shearing demonstration, sat chatting in the sun and played on hay and straw bales.
Assorted individuals, couples and families travelled from a 30-mile radius to give us some constructive feedback on our efforts to make local food work: –
Fantastic project. Amazing! Brilliant!
An excellent idea – keep it going
Great for the whole family. Liked the things for children to do
Lovely, interesting day – will come again
Loved the tour – very inspiring
Learned a lot about not needing to dig. Hurrah – compost!
Need to encourage more people to learn where food comes from and to eat seasonally
Excellent initiative – more farm events would be great
We provided a barbeque, home-made-cakes and cold drinks. Hot drinks and cream teas were available at the farm shop.
In scenes reminiscent of Eric Carle’s children’s classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, our guests and helpers munched their way through a shoulder of organic moorland mutton, a mound of sausages, beefburgers, veggie burgers and vegetable kebabs, several bowls of homegrown salad leaves, radishes and spring onions, 8 slices of rhubarb loaf, 10 rhubarb muffins, 12 slices of coconut sponge, 16 chocolate buns, 24 pieces of lemon drizzle cake, 30 iced cupcakes, 40 flapjacks…
And the verdict among Camel CSA members?
A job very well done! We are so lucky to have a group of such enthusiastic, committed, capable, lovely people
I think we have all pulled together really well
We have managed to spread the word to so many people and explain what we’re doing and why we’re doing it
It was so lovely to see it all coming together and the atmosphere it created
Most of all we have been able to show that we are a “community” working together
We can’t wait to be part of this again!
