February 21, 2019
The Monday team got stuck in on our new relocation site at Treraven Farm just outside Wadebridge.
Big thanks to growers Mark and Bridget and volunteers Bea, Charlotte, Danny, Darren, Finn, Helen and Tony.
The team put in hedgerow plants on the ‘bund’ by the car park, cleared more blackthorn and completed the rabbit-proof fence around the veg growing area.
The new hedge is full of native plants – hawthorn, spindle, guelder rose, dogwood, wild rose and hazel. And snowdrops!
Over the next 18 months we’re gradually relocating our polytunnels, growing beds, equipment store, solar panels and packing shed to the new site at Treraven from our current base at St Kew Highway.
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February 18, 2019
Camel CSA members love our winter salad leaves, grown in the polytunnels to organic principles. They contain a mixture of ‘Freckles’ lettuce leaves, rocket, red mustard, mibuna, mizuna and baby chard.
In all the boxes:-
*bean sprouts (Camel CSA)
*mixed winter salad bag
*chard or spinach (Camel CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
red cabbage (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Restharrow)
leeks (Restharrow)
potatoes – ‘Wilja‘ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard boxes also have:-
*parsley (Camel CSA)
*turnips (Camel CSA)
*swede (Camel CSA)
*= grown to organic principles. Please wash all produce thoroughly.
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February 10, 2019
Now we’re heading for the ‘hungry gap’ our resourceful growers are growing different types of sprouting seeds to go in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes.
In all the boxes:-
*alfalfa sprouts (Camel CSA)
*purple sprouting broccoli (CSA) or kale (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Restharrow)
beetroot (Restharrow)
leeks (Restharrow)
Jerusalem artichokes (Restharrow)
potatoes – ‘Wilja‘ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard boxes also have:-
*mixed winter salad leaves (Camel CSA)
celeriac (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
red cabbage (Restharrow)
*= grown to organic principles. Please wash all produce thoroughly.
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February 4, 2019
Sadly, we had to cancel last Friday’s weekly veg boxes because of the sudden heavy snow fall in Cornwall.
Now the snow’s all gone, growers Bridget and Mark can carry on building the rabbit-proof fence around our new growing site at Treraven Farm above Wadebridge.
We’ve also begun marking out our first two vegetable growing beds on our field at Treraven, which is owned by the Gaia Trust.
Over the next 18 months we’re gradually relocating our polytunnels, growing beds, equipment store, solar panels and packing shed to the new site at Treraven from our current base at St Kew Highway.
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January 28, 2019
This week’s awesome veg boxes include swede for serving with haggis on Burns Night.
In all the boxes:-
*swede (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
celeriac (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
savoy cabbage (Restharrow)
Brussels sprouts (Restharrow)
leeks (Restharrow|)
purple sprouting broccoli (Total Produce)
potatoes – ‘Wilja‘ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard boxes also have:-
*carrots (Camel CSA)
*chard (CSA)
beetroot (Restharrow)
*= grown to organic principles. Please wash all produce thoroughly.
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January 23, 2019
Camel CSA growers Mark and Bridget have begun marking out our first two vegetable growing beds above Wadebridge at Treraven Farm owned by the Gaia Trust.
We’re practising the No-Dig Method of organic cultivation championed by Charles Dowding. A thick layer of mulch will be applied in a few months’ time once the rye grass has died out underneath the black plastic. Then we’ll plant up the surface compost with our first winter crops – kale, purple sprouting broccoli and swede.
Over the next 18 months we’re gradually relocating our polytunnels, growing beds, equipment store, solar panels and packing shed to the new site at Treraven.
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January 22, 2019
Growers and volunteers dodged heavy showers under glowering skies on Friday to pack a record 61 veg boxes and get them into the van. Big thanks to Mark and Bridget, and Charlotte, Jane, Janet, Rinca, Spencer and Toby.
In all the boxes:-
*sprouted mung beans (Camel CSA)
red cabbage (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
*parsnips (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*Jerusalem artichokes (Mark)
purple sprouting broccoli (*CSA / Total Produce)
cauliflower (Total Produce)
potatoes – ‘Wilja‘ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard boxes also have:-
beetroot (*CSA / Restharrow)
*leeks (Mark)
curly kale (Restharrow)
*= grown to organic principles. Please wash all produce thoroughly.
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January 15, 2019
We’re extremely grateful to Wadebridge town councillors who have generously agreed to grant us £500 from their voluntary community and social enterprise budget.
We’ll be using the money to help fund the cost of erecting the first polytunnel on our new veg growing site above Wadebridge at Treraven Farm. Weather permitting, we’ll be relocating the tunnel from our St Kew Highway site very soon. Our other polytunnels, growing beds, equipment store, solar panels and packing shed will follow over the next 18 months.
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January 14, 2019
We also have hand-harvested winter salad leaves in our veg boxes this week. They’re fiddly to pick, but worth it. Many thanks to our growers Mark and Bridget and Friday’s picking and packing volunteers Bea, Celina, Charlotte, Darren, Jane, Phillippa, Rimca, Rob, Toby. And not forgetting Betty the dog!
In all the boxes:-
*mixed winter salad leaves (Camel CSA)
Brussels sprouts (*CSA / Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
*swede (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
celery (Restharrow)
cauliflower (Total Produce)
onions (Total Produce)
potatoes – ‘Wilja‘ (Colwith Farm, Lanlivery)
Standard boxes also have:-
*fennel (Camel CSA)
*kohlrabi / turnips (CSA)
*purple sprouting broccoli (CSA) / curly kale (Restharrow)
*= grown to organic principles. Please wash all produce thoroughly.
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January 1, 2019
Happy new year! We’re about to sign the lease on our new veg growing site above Wadebridge at Treraven Farm, owned by the Gaia Trust.
Over the next few weeks we’ll start gradually relocating our polytunnels, growing beds, equipment store, solar panels and packing shed.
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