Reflexology workshop, 10th February.

Reflexology Workshop
with Isabelle Makowska
Tuesday 10th February

9.30am – 2.30pm
at Bosavern Community Farm

How Reflexology works
Holistic Healing explained
Learn how to offer a simple Reflexology session to family and friends
Exchange a practice session on the day
Your questions answered!

Please bring a contribution to a shared vegetarian lunch
Cost £20 (£5 deposit to secure a place)
Please book early as places are limited

To book a place please ring the farm on 01736 788454
or email kate@bcents.org

Tree planting days in March.

Current polytunnel crops.

These photos were also taken yesterday, in our four polytunnels, as 40mph winds raged outside.

Green sprouting broccoli/calabrese, which we have just started harvesting, and it went into our standard veg boxes last Friday for the first time this winter.

Rainbow chard.

Chervil.

A rocoto chilli on one of our trained perennial bushes.

Elephant garlic (a closer relative to leek than garlic), we're hoping to be able to sell some for the first time this year, having built up our stocks for the past three seasons.

Purple kohl rabis ("cabbage turnips"!).

Vietnamese coriander bush (a close relative of redshank, with a spicy coriander flavour, my new favourite spice/herb).

Pak choi with surprisingly little slug damage.

Flat-leaved parsley.

Winter purslane, which has now spread of its own accord throughout our tunnels, and is a major constituent of our salad bags at this time of year.

Four lines of red radishes a few weeks from being ready.

Farm Shop Photos.

These photos were taken yesterday in our farm shop, which is looking amazing considering it's the middle of winter.

We have recently begun to harvest cauliflowers from beneath the mesh on our winter brassica field.

A selection of chilli products from Kernow Inferno (from Newlyn).

Raw chocolate made by Food Of The Gods in St Just.

Probably our two most popular items - the farm's own eggs and salad.

Part of the Bosavern Farm range of chutneys, made from our own vegetables, by Treacle's Treats in St Austell.

Delicious winter fare - leeks, onions, and jerusalem artichokes.

Forks fresh from harvesting those leeks!

A recent addition to our shop range and veg box choices - creamy whole organic milk from Treen.

Socks for sale, knitted by Isabelle whilst staffing the shop as a regular volunteer.

Lomonde purple-top swedes at £1 per kilo.

A sample veg box on display in the shop - this is a standard £10 weekly box.

Julia.

Julia, from Catalonia, left the community farm this morning to continue her wwoofing adventures in mid-Wales. Many thanks to Julia for all her help over the past month, and her grape-eating exploits on New Year's Eve...

Julia weeding green sprouting broccoli/calabrese in the Valentine polytunnel.

Propagation Polytunnel.

After one month of work in our "spare time" (when there were no more pressing matters to attend to) we have reached the point where our new polytunnel is ready for skinning. This is a 48ft by 16ft tunnel, so smaller than our others, which will be used to raise seedlings and plants for the tunnels and fields - when complete it will have a heated raised bed, and wooden staging to hold lots of module trays.

Marking out the construction site.

Digging the foundation holes, with Rudolf, Julia and Alice.

Julia digging the trench to hold the plastic skin.

The tunnel all ready for skinning.

Now we will wait until the weather permits us a few hours with no wind or rain (!!?) so we can get the skin and doors on. Anybody wishing to lend a hand in this important task please let us know on 01736 788454.

Carin

Many thanks to Carin, from the north of Sweden, for volunteering as a wwoofer on the farm both before and after Christmas - your handmade bread is greatly missed! Thanks for spending New Year's Eve with us in Market Square, and have a great 2015.