This week all boxes will have:

* salad (Camel CSA)
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
spring greens (Mark Norman and Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm)
strawberries (Growfair, Cornwall)

Standard boxes will also have:
leeks (Growfair)
rhubarb (Mark Norman and CSA member Kitty Hotchkiss)

FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE : the packers found they needed to clear crops in the polytunnel – lettuces and spring onions. So, in addition to the above list, standard boxes had a lettuce and the small boxes had spring onions. Any surpluses were placed by a board saying help yourself (first come, first served).

* = grown to organic principles

Expert grower Jane Mellowship reports that she’s ‘having the hardest time yet filling the boxes with Cornwall grown contents.’ Sadly, the Cornish rhubarb she’d hoped to get hold of is not available. Hopefully, she says, ‘standard box customers will understand when they get smaller boxes and realise that over the year the value of the contents does even out.’

Everyone will have:
* lettuce (Camel CSA)
* mixed salad bag (Camel CSA)
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
spring greens (Restharrow Farm)
asparagus (Lower Croan, Sladesbridge)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes plus:
* leeks (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)
* sprouted mung beans (Mark Norman)

* = grown to organic principles

This week’s boxes will all look a bit smaller but the value is still there. Expert grower Jane Mellowship says:

There are so few local vegetables available at the moment I’ve had to include asparagus in the standard boxes even though it’s not cheap to buy, but we can’t keep adding extras as it would make it all rather expensive.

Of course, we have to remember that this is the hopefully brief “hungry gap” and what we are getting in our boxes is locally grown and certainly seasonal. The contents of this week’s generous salad bags were all grown on the Camel CSA plot and it was good to see young broad bean and pea plants appearing on the plot this morning in spite of the lack of rain. Good things to look forward to!

Everyone will have:
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
* leeks (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)
* spring greens (Mark Norman)
* salad bags (Camel CSA)
* spinach (Jeremy)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes plus:
asparagus (Lower Croan, Sladesbridge)
swede (Growfair, Cornwall)

* = grown to organic principles

Small and standard boxes will all be getting:
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
spring greens (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflowers (Restharrow Farm)
* leeks (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)
asparagus (Lower Croan, Sladesbridge)

Medium boxes will have extra potatoes plus:
* rhubarb (Mark Norman)
round lettuce (Growfair, Cornwall)
swede (Growfair, Cornwall)

* = grown to organic principles

As we approach the ‘hungry gap’, it’s getting harder to fill our boxes with Cornish produce but we’ve managed for at least another week. Lucky standard boxes will be getting Cornish asparagus this week – it’s just too early for there to be enough for everyone, but it won’t be long … There’s rhubarb too – and hopefully enough for everyone but we can’t tell until tomorrow morning.

Small and standard boxes will all be getting:
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
* leeks (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)
* salad bags (Camel CSA / Jeremy)
* baby spinach (Jeremy)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm)
swede (Growfair Cornwall)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes plus:
asparagus (Lower Croan, Sladesbridge)
rhubarb (Trish Gibson and Jane Mellowship)

Everyone will be having:
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Jeremy Brown, St Kew, and Growfair, Cornwall)
* purple sprouting broccoli (Jeremy)
* leeks (Jeremy)
* salad bags (Jeremy)
kale (Growfair)
potatoes (Growfair)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes and onions plus:
swede (Growfair)
cabbage ‘Tundra’ (Growfair)
* jerusalem artichokes (Jeremy)

* = grown to organic principles

All the veg boxes will have:
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
red cabbage (Restharrow Farm)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm)
potatoes (Benbole Farm, St Kew)
* leeks (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)
round lettuce (Growfair, Cornwall)
purple sprouting broccoli (Growfair)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes and onions plus:
savoy cabbage (Growfair)
swede (Growfair)
* jerusalem artichokes (Jeremy)

* = grown to organic principles

This week everyone will have:
potatoes (Benbole Farm, St Kew)
* leeks (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)
* jerusalem artichokes (Jeremy)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm)
white sprouting broccoli (Restharrow Farm)
savoy cabbage (Growfair, Cornwall)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes and onions plus:
* salad leaves (Mark Norman)
red cabbage (Restharrow Farm)
swede (Growfair, Cornwall)

* = grown to organic principles

This week everyone will be getting:
potatoes (Benbole Farm, St Kew)
* leeks (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
white sprouting broccoli (Restharrow Farm)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm)
kale (Restharrow Farm)
lettuce (Growfair, Cornwall)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes and onions plus:
* jerusalem artichokes (Jeremy)
swede (Growfair)
savoy cabbage (Growfair)

* = grown to organic principles

This week everyone will have:
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes (Benbole Farm, St Kew)
white sprouting broccoli (Restharrow Farm)
red cabbage (Restharrow Farm)
savoy cabbage (Growfair, Cornwall)
* jerusalem artichokes (Jeremy Brown, St Kew Harvest)
lettuce (Growfair)

Standard boxes will have extra potatoes and onions plus:
* leeks (Jeremy)
cauliflower (Growfair)
spring greens (Growfair)

* = grown to organic principles

Update: The boxes also contain a small bag of bean sprouts cultivated by Camel CSA expert grower Mark Norman in his linen cupboard! He did this as an experiment and is keen to grow some more. So please let us have your feedback. As there’s only a small amount, he suggests you try them sprinkled on top of salad or in a sandwich.

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