Crib time for our dedicated picking and packing team every Friday morning provides a very welcome break before we start delivering the veg boxes. It’s always at exactly 11am and this week we all had traditional Cornish saffron cake (from Barnecutt’s in Wadebridge of course!)

We’re getting to that point in the growing season in Cornwall when the summer crops like cucumbers, courgettes and runner beans are gradually coming to an end and we look forward to more brassicas and root vegetables in the boxes.

Meanwhile the tomatoes, peppers and aubergines keep on coming. As usual any surplus green tomatoes will be made into chutney to include in our bumper veg boxes over Christmas.

In all this week’s veg shares:
*tomatoes
*aubergine
*carrots
*green pepper
*onions
*radishes or *French beans or *cucumber or *courgettes
potatoes ‘Picasso’ (Trerair Farm, St Eval)

Standard boxes also have:
*runner beans or *French beans
*cucumber
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)

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

Our weekly e-bike deliveries are back on the streets of Wadebridge. Meet Mervyn, our new e-cycle courier. who’s delivering our veg boxes every Friday to homes around the West Hill area. We’re thrilled to welcome him on board the team.

Grower Mark is continuing his electric van deliveries to our two pick-up points in Wadebridge and Delabole, and to homes around Bodmin Moor and along the north coast to Port Isaac and Polzeath.

In all this week’s veg shares:
*tomatoes
*aubergine
*runner beans or *cucumbers
*green pepper
*chard or *cavolo nero
*whole lettuce or *rocket leaves
*bunch of chives
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Trerair Farm, St Eval)

Standard boxes also have:
*beetroot or *carrots
*onions
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)

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

We’ve had a bumper fennel season but sadly this is the very last of the crop. Meanwhile the tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers and aubergines in our veg boxes keep on ripening week on week. They’re loving the mild, Cornish autumn sunshine.

In all this week’s veg shares:
*fennel
*tomatoes
*aubergine
*cucumber
*green peppers
*basil
*whole lettuce
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Trerair Farm, St Eval)

Standard boxes also have:
*beetroot
*runner beans or *French beans
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)

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

Cool and misty mornings have been providing welcome respite from the high temperatures for our growers and volunteers as they harvest the vegetables for the weekly veg boxes. You can’t imagine how hot it’s been in the polytunnels!

In all this week’s veg shares:
*tomatoes
*aubergine
*two whole lettuces
*radishes
*green peppers
*parsley or *rocket
calabrese (Trerair Farm, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Wilja’ (Trerair Farm)

Standard boxes also have:
*cucumber
*runner beans or *French beans or onions
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)

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

We’re overwhelmed with beautiful tomatoes and the ripest ones need searching out among the dense foliage. The peppers and aubergines are also very abundant at present.

In all this week’s veg shares:
*tomatoes
*aubergine
*salad leaves
*beetroot
*green peppers
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes (Trerair Farm, St Eval)

Standard boxes also have:
*cucumber
*radishes
*runner beans or *melon or *French beans

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

Tomatoes and basil are the complete combo and we have plenty of both in this week’s veg boxes. The basil is underplanted below the tomato vines in the polytunnels. French marigolds – tagetes patula – are also planted underneath to help attract beneficial insects and ward off pests.

In all this week’s veg shares:
*tomatoes
*basil
*cucumber
*salad leaves
*green peppers
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes (Trerair Farm, St Eval)

Standard boxes also have:
*chard
*red or white onions
*aubergine or *sweetcorn or *French beans

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

We’re thrilled that our new insulated cool store is almost complete. The first bunches of elephant garlic bulbs have been hung up to cure until they’re ready to go in the veg boxes.

We’ll also be using the cool shed to store other crops like onions, beetroot, pumpkins, squash and apples until we need them.

Volunteers Nick and Stan constructed the insulated and predator-proof lean-to at the rear of our packing shed. They used timber and insulating materials financed by Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) using money donated by local firm CleanEarth Energy. We’re extremely grateful to have friends and supporters like these.

In all this week’s veg shares:
*tomatoes
*cucumber
*sweetcorn
*salad leaves
*beetroot or *carrots
*chives
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes (Trerair Farm, St Eval)

Standard boxes also have:
*aubergine or melon
*spring onions
*French beans

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

There wasn’t much sunshine on Sunday but an enthusiastic bunch of volunteers did manage to get the hay raking done on our meadow at Treraven Farm.

We proved that many hands make light work after topping up people’s energy levels with a delicious barbeque.

We cut the grass at this time of year and rake up all the mowings because we want to encourage lots of wild flowers. More native flowers will thrive and grasses will become less dominant as we manage the meadow in a way that will gradually reduce soil fertility levels.

Camel CSA volunteers planted nearly 40 fruit trees in the more sheltered corner of the meadow in January. Two hives of bees were introduced in early summer and are managed by a member of Wadebridge Beekeeping Group.

We’re reaping the rewards after some welcome sunshine. Community supported agriculture means all our members share the successes (and occasional failures). This week everyone is getting a couple of bonus items. Some lucky people have the first of the sweetcorn.

In all this week’s boxes:
*tomatoes
*cucumber
*French beans -yellow or purple
*flat parsley
*radishes or *chard
*sweetcorn or *aubergine or *calabrese
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
potatoes (Trerair Farm, St Eval)

Standard boxes also have:
*salad leaves
*red onions

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

We love this moment in peak season when tomatoes are so plentiful. Our growers and volunteers picked 83kg to share out among this week’s vegetable boxes.

In all this week’s boxes:
*tomatoes
*bulb fennel
*spring onions
*cucumber
*French beans
*radishes
*courgettes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
*potatoes ‘Kestrel’ (Mark Norman)

Standard boxes also have:
*carrots
*aubergines or red onions

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

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