September 1, 2013
We’re harvesting a glut of tomatoes (again) and have lots of ideas for using them up. One traditional favourite is tomato and apple chutney. Any split, unripe or green tomatoes are put into a preserving pan with apples from my old Cornish orchard. The jars will go into Camel CSA’s veg boxes at Christmas.
August 14, 2013
As our picking and packing team harvest summer beans, expert grower Mark N plants the autumn crop.
July 30, 2013
It feels strange each year when it’s time to harvest summer fruit and plant out winter brassicas.
July 24, 2013
Camel CSA’s eye-catching new flyers are an original creation by talented Cornish graphic designer Emma Julian of Pickle Design in Wadebridge. The leaflets are designed to promote the new home and workplace delivery service for our veg box scheme members. Doorstep deliveries are every Friday afternoon within a 10-mile radius of our vegetable-growing plot at St Kew Highway near Wadebridge.
July 23, 2013
It’s almost time to start picking tomatoes. They share a polytunnel with aubergines, sweet peppers and chillies. We’re already harvesting cucumbers, which are growing happily next to coriander, mixed lettuce and rocket. We picked more than 80 cucumbers for last week’s veg boxes, with hundreds more to come.
July 21, 2013
Camel CSA’s growers leave long-tailed field mice well alone, provided they stay away from our polytunnels.
The problem is that mice love the warmth in the tunnels and like certain types of vegetable seed – especially peas – even better.
As we cleared away this year’s mangetout pea bed we disturbed no fewer than THREE mouse nests. Suddenly there were adult, teen and baby mice running everywhere!
- Enterprisingly, the mice bit back in verse last year in response to anti-mouse measures we took then.
July 11, 2013
In the end it took a dozen of us to finish picking all the peas and pack them into last Friday’s veg boxes. Grateful thanks to professional growers Bridget and Mark N and to Camel CSA’s volunteer picking and packing team members Anne, Bob, Charlotte, Danny, Mike, Penny, Robert, Simon, Toby and Trish.
June 30, 2013
It’s time to celebrate as we hit a new milestone – a total of 50 vegetable boxes going out to Camel CSA members every week! That’s some achievement for a small community vegetable growing enterprise in north Cornwall. So, why don’t you join us?
June 16, 2013
Camel CSA’s professional growers – Bridget and Mark N – have been picking and clearing the last of the peas and broad beans in the polytunnels to make way for more tomatoes and cucumbers.
June 8, 2013
Camel CSA’s growing team are in the middle of a big rush to plant out more salad crops started in our small seeding tunnel.
Aubergines, peppers and chillis are to go next to tomatoes and cucumbers being planted in succession in the big polytunnels.
Basil, radishes, lettuce and flat-leaved parsley are already cropping well.
