April 17, 2022
It’s a hive of activity on our site at Treraven Farm at this time of year. Our growers and volunteers are busy preparing indoor and outdoor veg beds and sowing or planting lots of salad leaves, ‘Little Gem’ lettuces, spring cabbage, peas, beetroot, spinach, spring onions, calabrese, turnip, radishes and carrots.
A total of 15 potato beds have been planted up with first and second earlies and dressed with our own lovely compost made from a mixture of green waste and woodchip.
In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*Swiss chard or perpetual spinach
*mixed salad leaves
*coriander
cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
leeks (Trerair)
can of fava beans (Hodmedod’s)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard veg boxes also have:-
*purple sprouting broccoli or Red Russian kale
*radishes
*sprouted mung beans
* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly.
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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April 10, 2022
We’re now entering the hungry gap – that time of year when overwintered crops like onions, kale and sprouting broccoli are ending and the new season’s vegetables aren’t yet ready to harvest. Fortunately some of our polytunnel-grown ‘catch crops’ like radishes and spring onions are ready.
Our expert growers and volunteers are working hard to ensure that the veg boxes remain full of good quality vegetables cultivated by us and other carefully-selected Cornish producers. That means no heated greenhouse crops and absolutely no imports!
In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*rainbow chard
*rhubarb
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Trerair)
swede (Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard veg boxes also have:-
*mixed salad leaves
*radishes
*kale – Red Russian
* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly.
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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April 1, 2022
It’s so exciting to have new-season radishes and the first of the rhubarb in our veg shares this week. The outside temperatures may have reached rock bottom suddenly, but our early spring crops are determined to keep going.
In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*radishes
*rhubarb
*mixed salad leaves
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*kale – Red Russian or Cottagers
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard veg boxes also have:-
*sprouted mung beans
*Shiitake mushrooms – double item (Forest Fungi, Devon)
* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly.
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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March 27, 2022
So much to do! The polytunnel crops keep us going while we get on with the spring sowing and planting.
In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*mixed salad leaves or oriental stirfry leaves
*coriander
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
Romanesco cauliflower (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard veg boxes also have:-
*sprouted alfalfa seeds
*parsnips or beetroot (Tamm Field Farm, Grampound)
*British-grown olive green lentils (Hodmedod’s)
* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly.
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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March 20, 2022
In all this week’s veg boxes:-
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*radishes
*leeks
*mixed salad leaves or oriental stirfry leaves
*savoy cabbage (Camel CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard veg boxes also have:-
*sprouted fenugreek seeds
*swede (CSA / Trerair)
*can of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)
* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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March 12, 2022
Spring is on the way and our polytunnel-grown salad leaves are making enormous growth spurts.
Thank goodness also for purple sprouting broccoli at this time of year. It’s a real favourite among all of us. Our own broccoli is still recovering from the hammering it received from Storms Eunice and Franklin, so this week’s offering is is a mix of ours and from the Backway family at Trerair Farm, St Eval.
In all the veg boxes:-
*mixed salad leaves
*kale – curly or Cottagers
*parsnips
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
onions or leeks (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard veg boxes also have:-
*wild garlic leaves (foraged)
*mung bean sprouts
*daikon (mooli)
* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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March 7, 2022
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.
March 5, 2022
We get very creative with our veg boxes at the end of winter as we cast our net wider to source additional seasonal vegetables. For the first time in our veg shares we have gourmet organic mushrooms from Forest Fungi in Devon.
In all the veg boxes:-
*curly kale
*mung bean sprouts
purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA / Trerair Farm, St Eval)
*mixed mushrooms – Shiitake, Grey Oyster, King Oyster (Forest Fungi, Dawlish)
leeks (Trerair)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard veg boxes also have:-
*mixed oriental stir fry leaves
*parsnips
*dried olive green lentils (Hodmedod’s)
* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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February 27, 2022
Camel CSA’s picking and packing team put together some spectacular veg boxes for us this week.
In all the veg boxes:-
*red Russian kale or *purple sprouting broccoli
*coriander
*mung bean sprouts
leeks (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
swede (Trerair)
cauliflower (Trerair)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard veg boxes also have:-
*chard
*can of fava beans (Hodmedod’s)
onions (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
* = grown to organic principles
Please wash all produce thoroughly
Produce grown by Camel CSA, unless indicated otherwise
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February 23, 2022
Our growers and volunteers have been mending fences and repairing torn polytunnel covers in the wake of Storm Eunice and Storm Franklin. After a nerve-wracking few days we’re fortunate the damage wasn’t much, much worse.
Our hearts go out to growers across the country who’ve suffered extensive damage to crops and infrastructure.
