Do you have some spare time to help lead our organisation? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Camel CSA is a friendly, motivated group working to grow healthy, tasty vegetables to organic principles. We supply weekly veg boxes, provide paid work for growers, support other local producers, and offer fantastic volunteering opportunities for people who enjoy being outside and working as part of a welcoming team.

We’re looking for a volunteer chair and vice chair to help lead our organisation.

Chair — what you’ll do

• Chair one management meeting per month, help set direction and track progress on key actions.
• Volunteer about 2–3 hours per week.
• Receive lots of support from our friendly team.

For more information please see the full chair job description here.

Vice Chair — what you’ll do

• Act as the link between the growing site and the management group.
• Be at the farm for a couple of hours on either Thursday or Friday mornings, plus 1–2 hours of offsite work each week.
• A hands‑on, rewarding role working closely with growers and volunteers — you’ll see the results of your work each week and receive lots of support from our team.

For more information please see the full vice chair job description here.

We’ll be holding a drop-in Zoom call on Monday 19th January from 7pm to 8pm. Please join to speak to members of our team directly about the roles and what we do. Join the Zoom call here.

Or, alternatively, please email our volunteer coordinator Ve at enquiries@camel-csa.org.uk

Or, feel free to visit us on a Thursday or Friday morning at Treraven Farm, Treraven Lane, PL27 7JZ.

If you’d like to help steer a warm, practical community project and be part of producing beautiful vegetables for our community, we’d love to hear from you.

Join us for our traditional annual Wassail at Camel Community Supported Agriculture (Camel CSA). Everyone is welcome.

Come and take part in Cornish music, singing, dancing and merrymaking in our orchard as we awaken and bless the apple trees.

Gather on Saturday 17th January by 11am on our site at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge. Come 10am onwards to make your own wreath (ivy provided).

Bring a small percussion instrument or a selection of pots and pans. Join us in making an “infernal noise” to frighten away evil spirits and ensure a good apple harvest.

Light refreshments and live music will be available afterwards.

Parking is limited so please consider leaving your car in Wadebridge and cycling or walking to the farm. Directions here

What a treat! These freshly-picked Cornish asparagus spears are absolutely delicious.

They’re grown only four miles away by our friends at St Enodoc Asparagus at Keiro Farm, St Minver.

You can’t get much more local than that.

In this week’s veg shares:
*spinach or rhubarb chard
*sprouted mung beans
*broad bean tops (Camel CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
asparagus (St Enodoc Asparagus, St Minver)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm Shop, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

* = grown to organic principles.  Please wash all veg thoroughly  
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless otherwise indicated

We have very happy bees. Our orchard in the meadow at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge, is only two years old and the blossom this year is amazing.

We’re now crossing our fingers we can harvest the first apples this autumn.

Worcester Pearmain is the traditional variety pictured here in glorious spring sunshine.

In this week’s veg boxes:
*rhubarb
*mixed salad leaves
*chard (Camel CSA) or *radishes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*spinach (Camel CSA) or *radishes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
carrots (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
parsnips (Trerair)
potatoes (Trerair)


* = grown to organic principles.  Please wash all veg thoroughly  
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless otherwise indicated

Simply the best! You can’t get fresher seasonal spring vegetables than these and they’re all locally grown.

All the veggies grown by us come from our polytunnels at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge, and the rest no further than 10 miles away. There really is nothing to beat local food produced on your own doorstep.

In this week’s veg boxes:
*spring onions
*chard / *pak choi
*mixed salad leaves
purple sprouting broccoli (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower ‘Romanesco’ (Trerair)
potatoes (Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)

* = grown to organic principles.  Please wash all veg thoroughly  
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless otherwise indicated

Want to find out about growing vegetables in a climate-friendly way? Come to our FREE event on Thursday 15 September at 17.30.

Join us for a tour of our no-dig growing site at Treraven Farm and learn how to make compost extracts to promote plant and soil health.

Please get your free ticket here.

Can’t make this date? You can sign up for a similar workshop we’re hosting for the Westcountry Rivers Trust on Thursday 22 September. Same place, same time. Details here.

A wonderful team of volunteers joined our weekend workday to tighten a polytunnel cover that got badly stretched when Storm Eunice and Storm Franklin hit us in February.

We had a brilliant day connecting, learning and sharing about all aspects of food growing at the CSA Network UK gathering in Cornwall.

Big thanks to hosts Soul Farm and fellow participants Goonown Growers, Bosavern Community Farm, Tamm Field Farm, Community Roots Cornwall, and Lazy Meadow Vegan Farm.

Our volunteer growers have planted more than 40 metres of native hedging on our site at Treraven Farm and mulched it with a thick layer of woodchip. The extra hedgerows will protect our soil and veg crops from damaging winds while providing food and shelter for a wide variety of wildlife.

The hedging mixture is mainly hawthorn interspersed with plenty of hazel, bird cherry, dog rose, field maple and crab apple. It’ll have a long flowering period to attract pollinators followed by nutritious haws, hips, fruits and nuts.

Big thanks to volunteers Alex, Bryony, Charlotte, Claire, Francesca, Jo, Mark, Susan and Steve.

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We had such fun and made vast quantities of apple juice for everyone to take home.

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