December 17, 2009
Jane Mellowship says this week’s boxes are ‘a little fuller than usual to spread some Christmas cheer!’
In the small boxes:
* onions/shallots (Camel CSA)
* large bunch of carrots (Camel CSA)
* parsnips (Camel CSA)
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
mushrooms (Tregonning Farm, Stithians)
sprouts (wholesaler)
cauliflower (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
red cabbage (Rest Harrow Farm)
swede (Rest Harrow Farm)
* rosemary sprigs (Jeremy Brown)
Standard boxes will also have:
* winter salad (Jane Mellowship)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)
black kale (Rest Harrow Farm)
December 10, 2009
More tasty veg in this year’s penultimate box.
The small boxes will have:
* onions/shallots (Camel CSA)
* carrots (Camel CSA)
potatoes (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)
cauliflower (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
black kale (Rest Harrow Farm)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)
The medium boxes will also have:
* parsnips (Camel CSA)
* Jerusalem artichokes (Camel CSA)
cabbage (Rest Harrow Farm)
swede (Rest Harrow Farm)
December 3, 2009
Hope you managed to find your veg boxes last week without getting too muddy. We didn’t want the contents to float away outside. They’ll be in the same place tomorrow, in the small polytunnel beyond the geese.
This week the small boxes will have:
* onions/shallots (Camel CSA)
* carrots (Camel CSA)
* parsnips (Camel CSA)
* cabbage (Camel CSA)
swede (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
broccoli/purple sprouting broccoli (Rest Harrow Farm)
potatoes – Wilja variety (Burlerrow, St Mabyn)
The medium boxes will also have:
* salad (Jane Mellowship)
romanesco cauliflower (Rest Harrow Farm)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)
* = grown to organic principles
November 26, 2009
In this week’s small veg boxes there’ll be:
* onions/shallots (Camel CSA)
* carrots (Camel CSA)
* white cabbage (Camel CSA)
potatoes – Wilja variety (Burlerrow, St Mabyn)
cauliflower (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)
Cornish mushrooms (Tregonning Mushrooms, Stithians)
* curly parsley (Camel CSA)
Medium boxes will also have:
* parsnips (Camel CSA)
* swiss chard (Camel CSA)
calabrese (Rest Harrow Farm)
November 19, 2009
There’s some delicious dark-leafed ‘cavolo nero’ in this week’s veg boxes, along with some of Camel CSA’s own onions, carrots and parsnips. Take any thick stems off the kale and shred the leaves. Cook till tender and then drain and toss with olive oil or butter.
In the small boxes there will be:
* onions (Camel CSA)
* carrots (Camel CSA)
* parsnips (Camel CSA)
potatoes – Wilja variety (Burlerrow, St Mabyn)
* salad bag (Jane Mellowship)
calabrese (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
black kale (Rest Harrow Farm)
Standard boxes will have the same plus:
romanesco cauliflower (Rest Harrow Farm)
swede (Rest Harrow Farm)
* brussels sprouts (Camel CSA)
* = grown to organic principles
November 12, 2009
A first appearance for our own Camel CSA Jerusalem artichokes. Contrarily, they’re neither artichoke nor from Jerusalem but a sunflower, originally named girasole after the Italian for sunflower and that name morphed into Jerusalem. Their supposed similarity in taste to artichoke gave them the rest of their name.
In the small boxes:
* onions (Camel CSA)
* Jerusalem artichokes (Camel CSA)
* carrots (Camel CSA)
* swiss chard (Camel CSA)
potatoes (Burlerrow, St Mabyn)
cauliflower (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
swede (Rest Harrow Farm)
Medium boxes also have:
* parsnips
ball-headed cabbage (Rest Harrow Farm)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)
* = grown to organic principles
November 5, 2009
We’re increasing the quantity of potatoes in this week’s veg boxes. Find out more about the different varieties – this week’s are Wilja – and what to do with them at the Potato Council website.
In the small boxes this week there’ll be:
* onions (Camel CSA)
* carrots (Camel CSA)
* parsnips (Camel CSA)
Wilja potatoes (Burlerrow, St Mabyn)
* hot and spicy salad bag (Jane Mellowship)
broccoli (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)
Medium boxes also have:
kale (Rest Harrow Farm)
* mixed peppers (small ones hot, larger ones sweet) (Jeremy Brown)
* sprouts (Camel CSA)
* = grown to organic principles
October 29, 2009
More of our own sweet carrots in this week’s veg boxes, plus onions, parsnips and chard, all grown at St Kew Highway.
In the small boxes:
* onions (Camel CSA)
* carrots (Camel CSA)
* parsnips (Camel CSA)
* chard (Camel CSA
potatoes (Burlerrow, St Mabyn)
cauliflower (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
red cabbage (Rest Harrow Farm)
Medium boxes also have
* beetroot (Camel CSA)
* borlotti beans – these need a good 20 minutes’ cooking (Jeremy Brown)
leeks (Rest Harrow Farm)
* = grown to organic principles
October 25, 2009
We can enjoy our very own carrots in Camel CSA’s veg boxes this week. We also have the apples we picked last Sunday in St Mabyn.
All that tender loving care has paid off! All those painstaking hours spent handweeding carrot beds suddenly seem worthwhile.
We’ve already taken delivery of our share of the harvest. So, as they say, this list is just for the record…
In the small boxes: –
*carrots (Camel CSA)
*onions (Camel CSA)
*leeks (Mark Norman)
*peppers (Jeremy Brown)
*salad bag (Jane Mellowship)
*apples – Lord Hindlip (Charlotte Barry)
potatoes (Burlerrow, St Mabyn)
kale (Rest Harrow, Trebetherick)
Medium boxes also have:
*parsnips (Camel CSA)
calabrese or tenderstem broccoli (Rest Harrow, Trebetherick)
* = grown to organic principles
October 15, 2009
Once again Camel CSA’s growers have put us together a varied and tasty selection in this week’s veg boxes. The potatoes are a variety called Sarpo Axona.
In the small boxes:
* red onions (Camel CSA)
* baby carrots (Camel CSA)
* parsnips (Camel CSA)
* swiss chard (Camel CSA)
* potatoes (Mark Norman)
* leeks (Mark)
cabbage (Rest Harrow Farm, Trebetherick)
swede (Rest Harrow Farm)
Standard boxes will have the same as above plus:
tenderstem broccoli (Rest Harrow Farm)
* green peppers (Jeremy Brown)
cauliflower (from a wholesaler but grown in Tintagel)
and larger quantities of the basics
(* = grown according to organic principles)
