June 27, 2010
One of Camel CSA’s expert growers has been showing St Mabyn Toddler Group how to grow their own food.
Jane Mellowship’s been helping out on the Cornwall Pre-School Learning Alliance Healthy Tots project, which has support from the Big Lottery Local Food programme.
The green-fingered toddlers and their mothers are sowing and growing a variety of veg seeds and plants in containers outside St Mabyn Village Hall – including potatoes, spring onions, lettuces, runner beans, radishes, tomatoes and carrots.
Jenny Ahern, the Pre-School Learning Alliance development worker for north Cornwall said:
The purpose of the project is to bring parents and children together to demonstrate how foods can be grown in a variety of ways and how you don’t need a large garden to do that.
Jane’s been brilliant. It’s been so much fun. It’s proved how easy it is to grow your own veg, how simple it is and what a difference it makes.
June 21, 2010
Our Open Farm Sunday event was a real success. Great fun was had by all – especially the children.
Around 80 people came to visit us, nearly half of them children, not counting our own members and their families.
Many thanks to everyone who did baking, making, cooking, carving, crafting, preparing, explaining, erecting, dismantling and all the other assorted tasks necessary to get the day up and running (and down again).
Special mention should go to Jeremy Brown of St Kew Harvest, who got up at the crack of dawn to get the hog roast going. It was melt-in-the-mouth delicious!
June 11, 2010
We’re celebrating Open Farm Sunday at Camel Community Supported Agriculture AND St Kew Harvest Farm Shop in north Cornwall this Sunday 13 June 12.30 – 5pm.
This is a joint event aimed at promoting locally-grown food and produce. We’re neighbours, so come and find us behind St Kew Harvest Farm Shop beside the A39 at St Kew Highway near Wadebridge.
Join in family fun & games, guided tours, nature quiz, vegetable box raffle. Refreshments include a home-reared hog roast, veggie BBQ, home-made cakes, hot & cold drinks.
Camel Community Supported Agriculture is a co-operative group. We grow fresh, seasonal vegetables for our members to share through our weekly veg box scheme.
At St Kew Harvest Farm they cultivate their own fruit and vegetables without any chemicals or pesticides in the fields next to the shop. They also raise their own free-range Gloucester Old Spot pigs.
Join in the fun and games
12:30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
13:30 Tai Chi for kids / tomato toss, bull’s eye, Mr Potato Heads
14:30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
15:30 Tai Chi for kids / tomato toss, bull’s eye, Mr Potato Heads
16.30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
June 10, 2010
There’s lots of things to see and do this Sunday beside our plot at St Kew Highway. Join in the fun and games with us and our neighbours St Kew Harvest Farm Shop on Open Farm Sunday.
Refreshments include a free-range home-reared hog roast, hot & cold drinks and home-made cake.
Everyone welcome. See you there!
June 7, 2010
Come and see what we do to promote local food this Sunday 13 June. Join us in lots of food-related fun and games – including a hog roast – on our site at St Kew Highway.
Camel Community Supported Agriculture members are holding this Open Farm Sunday event jointly with our neighbours Jeremy and Antonina Brown who run St Kew Harvest Farm Shop & Tea Rooms.
We rent our two acres of land from the Brown family and Jeremy is one of Camel CSA’s three expert growers.
Do come along any time between 12.30 and 5pm. You’ll find us behind St Kew Harvest Farm Shop beside the A39 at St Kew Highway near Wadebridge.
There’ll be family activities, guided tours, nature quiz and vegetable box raffle. Delicious refreshments include a St Kew Harvest free-range hog roast, veggie barbeque, home-made cakes plus hot and cold drinks.
Join in the fun & games
12:30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
13:30 Tai Chi for kids / tomato toss, bull’s eye, Mr Potato Heads
14:30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
15:30 Tai Chi for kids / tomato toss, bull’s eye, Mr Potato Heads
16.30 Guided tour / lettuce planting, make bee nests & bird scarers
June 1, 2010
The campaign group lovewadebridge.com is holding another public meeting this Thursday 3 June at 6pm in Wadebridge Town Hall.
Its 500+ members, representing local households and businesses, are opposing three out-of-town supermarket developments.
Both Morrison’s and Sainsbury’s now want to build brand new superstores on the east side of Wadebridge. Tesco has applied to expand its existing store at the top of West Hill.
Lovewadebridge.com was set up by local residents concerned that these out-of-town developments would damage the heart of Wadebridge – its character, economy and quality of life.
It’s proposing alternative ideas to maintain the health and well-being of this historic market town.
May 31, 2010
Camel CSA members Trish and Jeremy Gibson are opening their garden to the public for the first time this Sunday 6 June under the National Gardens Scheme.
Trish is our volunteer picking and packing supremo. She oversees the preparation of more than 30 vegetable boxes every Friday.
She’s recently taken time off from her weekly duties to put the finishing touches to their one and a half acre garden at the The Mill House, Pendogget near St Kew in north Cornwall.
There are extensive views across the surrounding farmland and within the garden enclosed formal areas contrast with open spaces. It has a mill pond, several smaller ponds, and a small stream running through.
Trish says:
After months of sowing and planting, weeding and clearing, hedging and edging, pruning and fine tuning, we’re ready … Opening for the first time under the National Gardens Scheme on Sunday 6 June, 2-5pm, a bargain £3 entry (children free), plant stall and irresistible cream teas in aid of Cornwall Hospice Care.
May 30, 2010
Why not come and see what we’re doing at Camel CSA? We’re taking part in Open Farm Sunday on June 13. There’ll be lots of things to see and do – guided tours, children’s fun and games, nature activities, veg box raffle and homemade refreshments. Including a hog roast!
We’re holding this event in conjunction with our neighbours St Kew Harvest Farm Shop & Tea Rooms.
May 26, 2010
Our visitors from Trevalon Organic Co-operative set to work on Sunday and gave us some very welcome assistance on the veg plot.
It’s amazing what a team of dedicated vegetable growers can do in a short time. They helped us get through all our weeding, watering, planting and sowing chores.
In the blazing sunshine we sowed plenty of carrot seed and planted out bee borage. But we decided not to risk planting out the celery in such hot, dry conditions.
At the same time we exchanged news and views about organic cultivation methods, how to make local food work and the growing number of community supported agriculture schemes here in the south-west.
Many thanks to all five members of the Trevalon group who’d travelled from Herodsfoot, led by landowner Mark Simon.
Camel CSA’s expert growers Jane, Jeremy B and Mark N organised our own volunteer growing team of Charlotte, Danny, Kitty, Mark M, Mike S, Rebecca and Tess.
We deserved our al fresco lunch, when we were all joined by fellow Camel CSA volunteers Dan, Kate, Penny, Robert and Theresa. Plus members of our junior wing – Brooke, Carla, Finn, Keira and Seth along with babes-in-arms Daisy and Hollie.
May 19, 2010
Cornwall’s first solar farm could be right next door to us – just across the A39 from Camel CSA’s veg plot.
Our community supported agriculture scheme rents its two-acre field from the Brown family of Benbole Farm, St Kew Highway, near Wadebridge.
The family are part of the Benbole Energy Farm consortium which plans to erect photovoltaic panels on a 15-acre site between St Kew Highway and St Mabyn. These would generate enough electricity for 600 homes.
Public consultation evenings are being held at St Kew Golf Club on Tuesday 8 June and Tuesday 15 June from 6 pm.
Cornwall’s ‘Silicon Vineyards’ aim to triple solar capacity in UK – Guardian
Massive solar farms planned to treble energy generated from sun in UK – Western Morning News
