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

We have so much to do between the spring sunshine and heavy rain! Our vegetable growers and volunteers are working flat out:

• sowing peas (outdoors) and brassicas (in seed trays)
• weeding and mulching
• fixing bird boxes
• signposting crops
• preparing herb and pollinator beds
• transplanting aubergines, peppers, and tomatoes

We welcome volunteers. If you’d like to come and join our team at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge please go to https://camel-csa.org.uk/volunteer/ for more details

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


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

Our volunteers had an energetic Friday morning in the spring sunshine picking and packing copious amounts of gorgeous green leaves for our members’ weekly veg bags.

The bulk of them are delivered via electric van to pick-up points and doorsteps in village, town, coastal and moorland locations within the Wadebridge, Bodmin, Camelford triangle.

In this week’s veg boxes:
*whole lettuce
*spinach / radishes
*chives
*coriander
*sprouted mung beans
*rhubarb
*savoy cabbage (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes (Trerair Farm, St Eval)


* = 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

What an stellar seasonal selection we have in our spring vegetable boxes this week including wild garlic leaves foraged from the oak woods and the first juicy stalks picked from our rhubarb patch.

In this week’s veg shares:
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*rhubarb
*radish bunch
*red Russian kale (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

We’re taking action to encourage even more wildlife to our vegetable growing site at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge.

The growing team had great fun unpacking the bird and bat boxes supplied by Sustainable Food Cornwall‘s Joining the Dots for Nature scheme.

At the same time our volunteers have begun creating a natural pond to attract a feast of different plants, insects, larvae, toads, newts and other freshwater life.

The improvements are all part of a nature recovery plan for our no-dig veg site carried out by Cornwall Wildlife Trust on behalf of Joining the Dots.

We’re one of 15 community growing schemes in or near the Cornwall National Landscape chosen to take part in the initiative with funding from the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) programme.

We’ll be doing plenty more exciting nature-friendly things over the next few weeks so make sure you watch this space!

If you’d like to take part in any of these activities, please get in touch. If you know anyone else who might be interested, please share these details with them.

In this week’s veg shares:
*spring onions
*mixed salad leaves (mizuna, rocket)
*chard
*sprouted mung beans
cauliflower ‘Romanesco’ (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
savoy cabbage (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

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

We do have plenty to laugh about on Friday mornings at Camel CSA.

The volunteer picking and packing team got in a bit of a tangle this week while sharing out the radishes for the veg boxes.

We’d already bunched up half of them when we realised there wouldn’t be enough to go round. We needed to redo our sums.

It all got rather complicated as everyone piled in with different mathematical formulae.

After several false starts we got there eventually with the help of a calculator. But you wouldn’t believe what a fuss it caused!

In this week’s veg shares:
*radishes
*mixed salad leaves (mizuna, rocket, mustard)
*chard
cabbage ‘January King’ (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
swede (Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

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

Aren’t they doing well? The first of this year’s spring onions are in this week’s veg shares alongside last season’s Crown Prince squashes.

The spring onions are thriving in the polytunnels beside the overwintered mixed oriental leaves, rocket and lettuce which have put on a growth spurt.

We store the autumn squashes on slatted shelves in our frost and predator-proof cool store. They’ve done remarkably well to last till the beginning of March.

The recent spring sunshine has also enabled our growers and volunteers to press ahead with weeding the no-dig beds, spreading compost and preparing them for planting on our site at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge.

And not forgetting to finish replanting the Jerusalem artichoke bed!

If you’d like to take part in our veg growing activities, please get in touch. If you know anyone else who might be interested, please share these details with them.

In this week’s veg shares:
*spring onions
*wedge of Crown Prince squash
*mixed salad leaves (mizuna, rocket, lettuce)
Romanesco cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
carrots (Trerair)
parsnips (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

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

We’re having the soil tested on our nature-friendly vegetable growing site at Treraven Farm, Wadebridge.

Jake Corin of the Symbiosis Soil Lab in Cornwall has been taking soil samples from the veg beds, the orchard and meadow, and our compost making area.

We’re already growing our veg crops using no-dig methods and no harmful chemicals. We don’t plough, till or rotavate and we use our own compost and natural fertilisers to enrich the soil.

We’re one of 15 community growing schemes chosen to take part in Sustainable Food Cornwall‘s Joining the Dots for Nature initiative, which includes soil testing. Sophie Bailey, its community growing development worker, is leading the project.

As we’re so often told, a teaspoon of soil contains more living organisms than there are people on this planet.

These tests will help us find out how healthy our own soil is and how we can improve it.

Warm sun, more daylight, loud birdsong – it must be spring!

Our growers and volunteers are making the most of the dry days to prepare for the new veg growing season. It’s all systems go on our community growing site at Treraven Farm.

This week’s tasks included:-

• transplanting and mulching the blackcurrants
  
• sowing tomato, aubergine and pepper seeds
  
• weeding and composting the outside beds
  
• harvesting lots of oriental salad leaves and the first of the indoor radishes for the veg boxes.

If you’re interested in volunteering on our friendly team, please get in touch. If you know anyone else who might be interested, please share these details with them.

In this week’s veg shares:
*radishes
*purple sprouting broccoli or curly kale
*oriental salad leaves (mizuna, frilly mustard)
celeriac (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

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

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