March 26, 2023
The rhubarb is ripe and ready for picking. Late winter gales in Cornwall can devastate this valuable early spring crop so we’ve erected an additional windbreak to protect it.
We’re harvesting other new-season vegetables alongside the remaining overwintered crops. Red radishes and purple sprouting broccoli are particular favourites among members of our veg share scheme.
In all the weekly veg boxes:
*rhubarb
*radishes
*mixed salad leaves
*leeks
*red Russian kale
swede (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Sagitta’ (Trerair)
Standard boxes also have:
*stirfry mix
*elephant garlic
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair)
* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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March 19, 2023
Our growers and volunteers are working flat out to sow seeds, prick out seedlings and prepare no-dig beds for the many varieties of vegetables we’re cultivating this year.
Meanwhile we’re harvesting the last of the overwintered crops including our succulent salad mix – currently lettuce, buck’s horn plantain, mustard, red Russian kale, mizuna, land cress and baby leaf beet.
In all the weekly veg boxes:
*mixed salad leaves
*kalette tops or purple sprouting broccoli
red onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
*dried olive green lentils (Hodmedod’s)
celeriac (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
leeks (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Sagitta’ (Trerair)
Standard boxes also have:
*wild garlic (foraged locally) or radishes
*sprouted alfalfa seeds
romanesco (Trerair)
* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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March 11, 2023
These carrots may look whiskery and wonky but we don’t care as they taste delicious! We’re using up the very last of our overwintered root crops during Food Waste Action Week.
Our growers and volunters are getting ready for the new growing season and preparing lots of no-dig outdoor beds for carrot sowing and potato planting. The pepper, tomato, cucumber, aubergine and chillie seeds have germinated in the heated propagator and are being grown on under cover.
In all the weekly veg shares:
*carrots
*parsnips
*beetroot or purple sprouting broccoli
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
spring greens (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Sagitta’ (Trerair)
Standard boxes also have:
*mung bean sprouts
*parsley
leeks (Trerair)
* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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March 5, 2023
It was so frosty on Friday morning our volunteer pickers and packers had to wait for the ice to melt before they could start working outdoors.
In all the veg boxes this week:
*curly kale
*parsnips
*coriander
*kalettes or sprouiting broccoli or salad leaves
*Jerusalem artichokes
romanesco (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Sagitta’ (Trerair)
Standard boxes also have:
*sprouted fenugreek seed
*shitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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February 26, 2023
We are proud to offer Camel CSA’s members a weekly selection of local, seasonal vegetables.
In winter we don’t grow tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers as they would require artificial heat. We also don’t deal with food imported from outside the UK.
In all the veg boxes this week:-
*mixed stir fry leaves
*Jerusalem artichokes
*kalettes or purple sprouted broccoli
*sprouted mung beans
potatoes ‘Sagitta’ (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
red onion (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
Standard boxes also have: –
*parsnips
*mixed salad leaves
leeks (Trerair)
* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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February 19, 2023
Our growing team work very hard to ensure that we have a constant supply of different salad and stir fry leaves available from the polytunnels during winter and early spring.
In all the veg boxes this week:
*mixed stir fry leaves
*daikon (Camel CSA) or beetroot (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
*shitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
red onions (Restharrow)
Brussels sprouts stalk (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
‘Sagitta’ potatoes (Trerair)
Standard boxes also have:
*winter salad leaves
red cabbage (Trerair)
parsnips (Restharrow)
* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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February 12, 2023
Such a treat! We all have a bag of gourmet organic shitake mushrooms straight from the wonderful ‘Shroom Rooms at Forest Fungi mushroom farm in Devon. Their cafe is well worth a visit too.
In all the veg boxes this week:
*mixed stir fry leaves
*daikon (Camel CSA) or beetroot (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
*shitake mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
red onions (Restharrow)
Brussels sprouts stalk (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
‘Sagitta’ potatoes (Trerair)
Standard boxes also have:
*winter salad leaves
red cabbage (Trerair)
parsnips (Restharrow)
* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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February 5, 2023
The growing team have begun sowing new-season red and brown onions, radishes, spring onions, spring cabbage and herbs. Meanwhile we’re still enjoying a wide selection of home-grown winter produce in the veg boxes.
In all the boxes this week:
*red Russian kale
celeriac (Trerair Farm Shop)
cauliflower (Trerair)
leeks (Trerair)
‘Wilja’ potatoes (Trerair)
dried olive green lentils (Hodmedod‘s)
Standard boxes also have:
*winter salad leaves
*Jerusalem artichokes
*sprouted mung beans
* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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January 29, 2023
Succulent pak choi is over-wintered in our polytunnels – a real pick-up at this gloomy time of year.
In this week’s veg box shares:-
*pak choi
parsnips (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick
beetroot (Restharrow)
leeks (Restharrow)
Brussels sprouts stalk (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
*can of carlin peas ( (Hodmedod’s)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Trerair)
Standard shares also have:-
*mixed oriental salad leaves
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
swede (Trerair)
*= grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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January 22, 2023
We love sweet and nutty-tasting kalettes that grow so well in Cornwall.
In the weekly veg box shares:-
*coriander
*curly kale
*kalettes (Camel CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*grey oyster mushrooms (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Trerair)
Standard shares also have:-
*mixed oriental salad leaves
*carrots
squash – ‘Crown Prince’ or ‘Harlequin’ (Trerair)
*= grown to organic principles. Please wash all veg thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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