Veg boxes 9th October

Small £6 veg box - potatoes, tomatoes, salad leaves, kale, peppers and a bunch of carrots.

Standard £10 veg box (with added bread and eggs) - potatoes, bulb fennel, kale, salad leaves, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, courgettes and a bunch of carrots.

Kieron

Kieron, from London, left today after five weeks volunteering on the farm, and we'd like to thank him for his hard work, affability and enthusiasm during his stay (and good luck in your new job!). Kieron is seated on the far right in the last photo of the previous harvest celebration entry.

Harvest Celebration 2015

On Sunday 4th October we held our annual harvest celebration, which is a free event for everybody and anybody to come along to the farm and see for themselves what we get up to, and help us celebrate this years harvest. Although the Cornish weather turned from glorious Indian summer to proper autumn through the day, more than 100 people attended, with friends old and new, and people from as far afield as Devon and the USA!

Three views of our farm shop ready for the harvest celebration.

Pumpkin display in the shop entrance.

Alice preparing the farm's outdoor cafe for custom.

Alice's speciality, chard pie - delicious!

The farmyard starting to fill with people.

List of the day's activities.

Matt of the Cornish Black Bee Company on his honey stall (honey from Matt's beehives kept on our farm).

Visiting musicians playing by the campfire.

Viv with our competition marrow, which weighed 5.06 kg and was won by Councillor Sue James.

Craft workshops in the hive - stick dolls and wands.

Kelsey with the "Land and Sea" choir singing by the campfire, having walked and sung to the farm from Market Square.

The farm tour in the cob roundhouse, which easily accommodated 45 standing people.

Our farmyard full of harvest celebrants.

Most of the team who packed away at the end of the celebration, finishing just as the rains broke.

We'd like to thank everybody who came along on the day and helped make the community farm what it is. Special thanks go to all those who helped in the build up and on the day itself - you are too numerous to mention!

Veg boxes 2nd October 2015

Small £6 box - Picasso potatoes, kale, mixed salad leaves, peppers, courgettes, tomatoes.

Standard £10 box -rainbow chard, mixed salad leaves, kale, Picasso potatoes, marrow, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, carrots.

If you would like to receive a regular veg box, or just try one out, please give us a ring on 788454 or email vegbox.bcf@bcents.org

Tomatoes 2015

This year we believe we've produced the best selection of tomatoes to date, with plenty of colour and variety, but also great tasting. Here's some photo's from our polytunnel taken the other day.

Berner Rose, new this year, a large rose-coloured juicy tomato.

Chocolate cherry, new this year, a chocolate-brown cherry tomato with good flavour.

Costoluto Fiorentino, new this year, probably our most attractive tomato, a large ribbed juicy Italian variety.

Galina, new this year, a yellow cherry tomato.

Gardener's Delight, an old favourite red cherry.

Golden Queen, large juicy yellow tomato.

Jen's Tangerine, new this year, a large orange tomato.

Moneymaker, standard large red tomato for general use.

San Marzano, an Italian plum tomato.

Sungold, the tastiest tomato we grow (also the only F1 we do), a delicious orange cherry.

White cherry, new this year.

Yellow Submarine, a tasty pear-shaped yellow cherry tomato.

Those are 12 of our varieties this year, but there's at least one (Stupice, a tasty large red and green tomato) that doesn't appear here - sorry for overlooking you in the tunnel! Seeds for most of these tomato varieties are available to buy from Tamar Organics and the Real Seed Catalogue (search for them online).

Harvest celebration, Sunday 4th October.

Everybody is invited to come along to the farm on Sunday 4th October from 11am till 4pm to help us celebrate this year's harvest.

Linda, Aurelia and Hanna

Linda from Germany, who was with us for 5 weeks, and Aurelia and Hanna from Switzerland, who volunteered for 2 weeks, all left the farm recently to continue to their next wwoof destinations. As always we'd like to thank them for their hard work, and wish them well with their onward adventures in organic farming.

Linda loading hay onto the tractor with Kieron.

Hanna (left) and Aurelia (right) about to leave the farm and cycle to Perranporth.