Food sovereignty

Heather, who WWOOFed with us for 3 months in the spring, has written an article about Food Sovereignty, which has been published on the WWOOF UK website - https://wwoof.org.uk/news/taste-food-sovereignty - and is well worth a read.

Clara

It is Clara's last day volunteering on the farm tomorrow, then she moves on to her next WWOOF placement, before heading home to Belgium for Christmas. Many thanks Clara!!

Veg boxes 19/11/21

We had 23 people working on the farm yesterday, most of them involved at some point with picking and packing for the veg boxes, so we were all finished by 4pm.

Work Experience and Training participants picking beetroot in the maincrop field.

One of our WWOOF volunteers, Ophelia, picking spring greens in the market garden.

Yesterday's 94 veg boxes contained:-

• small boxes (£7) - potatoes, leeks, red beetroot, salad, rainbow chard, and a rocoto chilli;
• standard boxes (£11) - potatoes, leeks, red beetroot, salad, rainbow chard, a crown prince squash, spring greens, and parsnips.

To request a joining form for our veg box scheme please email vegbox.bcf@bcents.org.uk.

New pop-hole door

Repairing a pop-hole door on one of our chicken sheds is not usually a newsworthy event, but one of our wwoofers, Warren, has created an incredible work of art on this one, so it is probably the most beautiful chicken pop-hole door in West Cornwall if not beyond...

Thank you Warren!

Community Group Award Cornishman article

Printed in The Cornishman 11/11/21.

Early winter on the farm

Oddly, this is one of my favourite times of year on the farm, as the season starts to wind down and become more mellow, light draws in at both ends of the day, and we can turn our attention to all those jobs that have needed doing all year and we've had to put off till winter.

Dawn seen through the work experience polytunnel, on the way to let our chickens out for the day.

Clearing ivy, weeds and soil, from the packing shed roof to stop it leaking.

Repairing the gateway into our Market Garden.

A view of the coast whilst out delivering veg boxes one afternoon.

Winter skies over our polytunnels.

Sunset seen from the farmyard.

One of our polytunnels bursting with winter crops (mooli radishes, carrots, rocket, and Chinese cabbage).

Veg box harvesting

It's been a much nicer day for harvesting fresh veg from the fields this Thursday than it was last week! We finished earlier, didn't get wet, and the veg is less muddy (except for yesterday's potatoes which we dug up during a heavy shower).

Digging up leeks in the market garden.

Collecting pumpkins from the Propagation Station.

The 85 veg boxes we have put together this week contain:-

small box (£7) - potatoes, kale, pumpkin portion, onions, leeks, and mixed salad leaves;

standard box (£11) - potatoes, kale, pumpkin portion, onions, leeks, mixed salad leaves, cucumber, rainbow chard, and beetroot.

Phone us on 01736 788454 or email vegbox.bcf@bcents.org to enquire or join our scheme.