Job opportunity – Lead grower at Camel CSA in Cornwall

November 13, 2025

Camel CSA has a vacancy for an experienced vegetable grower to lead our dynamic and friendly team at Camel Community Supported Agriculture in Wadebridge, Cornwall.

This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic and committed person who has a passion for producing local food agroecologically, connecting with people, and promoting community values.

Camel CSA supplies a weekly veg share throughout the year to a membership of around 60 local households. We were among the very first few CSAs in the UK and have been running since 2009.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced grower who understands and is committed to organic no-dig and agroecological farming principles and is able to manage the seasonal growers and to support volunteers. You will be a compassionate and professional communicator and have good organisational skills.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 7 December 2025.

Strawberries and garlic scapes in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes

May 19, 2025

Our own strawberries are not quite ready yet, instead we all have a punnet from Tamara Summer Fruits, near Saltash.

Some of this week’s veg boxes also have a garlic scape – the long stalks with a flower head that grow out of garlic bulbs planted the previous autumn.

The tender green stalks are edible and tasty, with a mild garlic flavour. They’re delicious chopped and fried lightly, then scattered into salads, stirred through pasta dishes, or used to garnish risottos and pizza. More recipe suggestions here.

In this week’s veg shares:
*garlic scape or broad bean tops
*salad leaves ‘Salad Bowl’
*lettuce ‘Little Gem’
*radishes
strawberries (Tamara Summer Fruits, Saltash)
cabbage (Trerair Farm Shop, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Melody White’ (Trerair)

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

Come and meet us at the Community Day in Wadebridge on Saturday 17 May

May 13, 2025

We’re thrilled to be taking part in the Community Day in Wadebridge Town Hall this Saturday 17 May from 10am-3pm.

Come along to find out more about the vegetables we’re growing and how you can get a share of our delicious, healthy, locally-grown produce.

Camel CSA’s promotion team were also at last Saturday’s Troubled Waters event in Wadebridge. Veronica, Debbie and Claire chatted with numerous people wanting to know what we’re doing to support local food, seasonal eating, and nature-friendly farming.

Plenty of rhubarb in the veg boxes as we enter the seasonal ‘hungry gap’

May 11, 2025

The selection of seasonal produce in our boxes this week reflects the time of year when we go through the annual ‘hungry gap’.

It’s when the winter crops have finished and many of the spring plantings aren’t yet ready to harvest.

But we can always rely on our rhubarb bed for a reliable early crop!

In this week’s veg shares:
*rhubarb
*coriander or parsley / chives
*can of carlin peas (Hodmedod’s)
red cabbage (Trerair Farm Shop, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)
spring greens (Continental Wholesale Fruits, Liskeard)
leeks (Continental)

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

St Enodoc Asparagus spears in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

May 4, 2025

What a treat! These freshly-picked Cornish asparagus spears are absolutely delicious.

They’re grown only four miles away by our friends at St Enodoc Asparagus at Keiro Farm, St Minver.

You can’t get much more local than that.

In this week’s veg shares:
*spinach or rhubarb chard
*sprouted mung beans
*broad bean tops (Camel CSA / Mark Norman, Bodmin)
asparagus (St Enodoc Asparagus, St Minver)
cauliflower (Trerair Farm Shop, St Eval)
potatoes ‘Manitou’ (Trerair)

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

Nature thrives in Camel CSA’s apple orchard at Treraven Farm

April 29, 2025

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

Sowing peas in the sunshine at Camel CSA

April 21, 2025

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

Busy session in the sun preparing Camel CSA’s veg boxes

April 13, 2025

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

Local veg boxes produced near you in north Cornwall

April 7, 2025

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

Wild garlic in Camel CSA’s spring veg boxes

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March 30, 2025

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

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