Everyone will have:
* onions (Camel CSA)
* cucumber (Camel CSA)
* calabrese (Camel CSA)
* broad beans or peas (Camel CSA)
* kale (Camel CSA)
* lettuce/rocket (Camel CSA)
* potatoes (St Kew Harvest)

Medium boxes will also have:
* extra potatoes
* radishes (Camel CSA)
* chard (Camel CSA)
* garlic (Camel CSA)
* courgettes (Mark Norman)

Large boxes will have:
an extra kilo of potatoes
extra onions, broad beans, kale, calabrese, radishes, chard, cucumber, rocket
* a large bunch of beetroot (Mark)

* = grown to organic principles

A quick note from Mark Norman: the green onions need to be used reasonably quickly – unlike the ones that have been harvested and dried, they won’t keep.

This week everyone will have:

* cucumber (Camel CSA)
* green onion (Camel CSA)
* lettuce (Camel CSA)
* cabbage (Camel CSA)
* swiss chard (Camel CSA)
* basil (Camel CSA)
* potatoes (Mark Norman)
calabrese (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)

Standard boxes will also have:
* peas (Camel CSA)
* broad beans (Camel CSA)
* parsley (Camel CSA)

* = grown to organic principles

This week sees the first courgettes from expert grower Mark Norman and the last of the french beans from the CSA’s polytunnel. Also potatoes from Jeremy Brown at St Kew Harvest. Everyone will have:

* courgettes (Mark)
* swiss chard (Camel CSA)
* french beans (Camel CSA)
* basil (Camel CSA)
* turnips (Camel CSA)
* cucumber (Camel CSA)
* potatoes (St Kew Harvest)

Standard boxes will also have:
* red kale (Camel CSA)
* peas (Camel CSA)
* beetroot (Camel CSA)

* = grown to organic principles

UPDATE: The peas aren’t quite ready despite the recent heavy rain. So, instead, all the boxes have a bunch of freshly-picked radishes and extra kale (lots of it!)

Jane reports that this week’s small boxes will be ‘full to the brim’ to make up for last week’s being a little light! Once again it’s all our own produce – with contributions from expert grower Mark Norman and CSA member Mark Malcolmson – and all grown to organic principles. The french beans are coming to an end while the peas are just beginning, so you might get one or t’other.

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*potatoes (Mark Norman)
*lettuce (Camel CSA)
*cucumber (Camel CSA)
*cabbage (Camel CSA)
*radishes (Camel CSA)
*garlic (Camel CSA)
*beans/peas (Camel CSA)
*blackcurrants (Mark N)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes plus
*rocket (Camel CSA)
*courgettes (Mark N)
*shitake mushrooms (Mark Malcolmson)

* = grown to organic principles

All “home” grown once again – plus all grown to organic principles. And next week, says expert grower Jane Mellowship: “We will definitely have Treworder strawberries, promise!” For now, everyone will get:

* lettuce (Camel CSA)
* french beans (Camel CSA)
* purple kale (Camel CSA)
* basil (Camel CSA)
* green onions (Mark Norman)
* gooseberries (Mark)

Standard boxes will also have:
* cucumber (Camel CSA)
* calabrese (Mark)
* turnips (Camel CSA/Mark)

* = grown to organic principles

UPDATE: If you want more of Mark Norman’s organically-grown gooseberries they’ve got plenty more for sale at St Kew Harvest Farm Shop, next door to our vegetable plot at St Kew Highway.

The contents of this week’s boxes come from Camel CSA’s own plot at St Kew Highway and from our own expert grower Mark Norman’s smallholding on the outskirts of Bodmin.

We’ve all sharing a bumper French bean harvest. This early crop is growing really well in our first polytunnel.

Everyone will have:
* French beans (Camel CSA)
* round cabbage (Camel CSA)
* salad bags (Camel CSA)
* new potatoes (Mark Norman)
* carrots (Mark)
* gooseberries (Mark)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes as well as:
* turnips (Camel CSA)
* kale (Camel CSA)
* calabrese (Mark)

* = grown to organic principles

Another good harvest from Camel CSA’s own plot this week – including the first of the french beans and sweet-scented basil from the polytunnel. Everyone will be getting:
* spring cabbage (Camel CSA)
* salad leaves (Camel CSA)
* radish (Camel CSA)
* french beans (Camel CSA)
* broad beans (Mark Norman)
* green onions (Mark)
new potatoes (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)

Standard boxes will also have:
* beetroot (Camel CSA)
* carrots (Camel CSA)
* basil (Camel CSA)

* = grown to organic principles

All boxes will have:
* 600g new potatoes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
* lettuce (Camel CSA)
* spring greens (Camel CSA)
* beetroot (Camel CSA)
calabrese (Growfair, Cornwall)
broad beans (Growfair)

Standard boxes will also have:
* an extra 400g new potatoes
* baby carrots (Camel CSA)
* sprouting seeds (mung beans) (Mark Norman)
* turnips (Camel CSA/Mark)

* = grown to organic principles

In National Vegetarian Week everyone will have: –
* lettuce (Camel CSA)
* beetroot (Camel CSA)
* spring onions (Camel CSA)
* spring cabbage (Camel CSA)
600g new potatoes (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
* baby carrots (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)

Standard boxes will also have:
extra 300g new potatoes
calabrese (Growfair, St Merryn)
strawberries (Growfair, Saltash or Hayle)

* = grown to organic principles

There’s an impressive amount of our own Camel CSA produce in this week’s vegetable boxes. Our first new polytunnel is enabling us to grow early crops to help fill the annual “hungry gap“.

We’ve also got the first Cornish new potatoes from Mark Norman, one of our three expert growers.  And more delicious Cornish strawberries from a farmer near Hayle. So everyone will be having:

* lettuce leaf salad bag (Camel CSA)
* beetroot (Camel CSA)
* spring onions (Camel CSA)
* 500g Cornish new potatoes (Mark Norman)
Cornish strawberries (Growfair, Cornwall)

Standard boxes will also have:
* extra 250g Cornish new potatoes (Mark)
extra punnet of Cornish strawberries (Growfair)
* spring greens (Camel CSA)
* radish (Camel CSA)

* = grown to organic principles

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